Death of Latvian cellist Marta Sudraba
Latvian cellist Marta Sudraba, who completed her master's degree in 2000 in Basel with Thomas Demenga, has died in Vienna at the age of 50.
According to the online magazine Slipped Disc, Sudraba was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1975. She studied music in Riga, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at the Basel Academy of Music with Thomas Demenga, as well as with Heinrich Schiff at the Vienna Academy of Music.
In 1997 she joined Gidon Kremer's Kremerata Baltica, where she led the cello section and took part in the ensemble's tours and recordings. The following year she became a member of Kremer's trio. Sudraba has also played with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Orchestra de La Scala in Milan, among others.
As a chamber musician, she has worked with Kremer as well as with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Thomas Quasthoff, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Ilya Gringolts, Per Arne Glorvigen, Joshua Bell and Vadim Sakharov. She was also a guest at the Verbier Festival.
