Gidon kremer Executa Tchaikovsky, Ysaye, Elgar ELISABETH COMPETITION ( HD)

Kremer was born in Riga to parents of GermanJewish (his father being a Holocaust survivor) and LatvianSwedish He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather, who were both professional violinists. He went on to study at the Riga School of Music and with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1967, he won third prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels; then, in 1969, second