Masterclass di Violino con Eva Bindere

“A very mature musician who is capable to share her experience and qualities in the most diverse repertoire… She is simply a splendid violinist.” – Gidon Kremer

Eva Bindere is a Latvian violinist. She has studied with Eduards Šmīders, Rafael Oleg, and chamber music with Walter Levin.
When Gidon Kremer founded the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra in 1997, Bindere became its concertmaster and led the orchestra for fifteen years, travelling the world and performing regularly as a soloist and in duets with Kremer. The record After Mozart, on which Bindere is also a soloist, received a Grammy Award.
She has been the concertmaster of Sinfonietta Riga, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Sudwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Sinfonietta Basel and East West Chamber Orchestra. In collaborative projects, she has also led the Kammerorchester Basel, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Camerata Bern and Moscow Soloists.
Bindere is particularly passionate about chamber music and has performed with Yo Yo Ma, Khatia Buniatishvili, Yuri Bashmet, Pierre Amoyal, Renaud Capuçon, Hagen Quartet, Boris Garlitsky, Antoine Tamestit and Maxim Rysanov, Gérard Caussé, Wolfram Christ, Alois Posch, Gautier Capuçon, Mario Brunello, Boris Pergamenschikov, Katia Skanavi, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martin Stadtfeld, Alexander Melnikov and Martin Helmchen.
In 2015, the violinist formed Trio Palladio with her friends cellist Kristīna Blaumane and pianist Reinis Zariņš. Their first CD of Pēteris Vasks’ piano trios was released by Ondine in 2020, and the recording was selected as one of the editor’s favourites by The Gramophone magazine. In 2024, the trio received the Latvian Great Music Award in the Ensemble of the Year category for their outstanding performances throughout 2023, the highest state recognition in the field of music
The recording of Tālivaldis Ķeniņš Violin Concerto (LNSO, conductor Andris Poga) in 2020 received excellent reviews and 3 Opus Klassik nominations.
Since 2008, Bindere has been teaching violin in her native Riga in Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music. In 2013, she became violin professor.
Since 2020, Bindere has been violin professor at the Accademia Perosi in Biella, Italy. She is also a jury member of international competitions and regularly gives masterclasses at Collegium Musicum Schloss Pommersfelden, Livorno Festival, Lake Garda Festival and the Järvi String Academy.
In March 2017 Bindere received the Latvian Grand Music Award in the category Musician of the Year for the year 2016. She plays a 1751 Ferdinando Landolfi violin, kindly loaned by Fondazione ProCanale Milano.