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| | Gidon Kremer - violin : La Jolla Music Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | A native of Riga, Latvia, where he was born in 1947, Gidon Kremer is one of the most original artists of his generation, praised for compelling performances marked by individualism, a rejection of well-trodden paths of interpretation, and a constant search for new musical possibilities. |
 | | Gidon Kremerâs unusually extensive repertoire encompasses all of the standard classical and romantic violin works, music by 20th century masters (Henze, Berg, and Stockhausen), as well as the works of living Russian and Eastern European composers. |
 | | Kremer had also established Lockenhaus, a chamber music festival that continues to take place every summer in Austria; in 1997 and 1998, he followed Yehudi Menuhin as artistic director of the Gstaad Festival. |
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