Margarita Krein's Page

Margarita started to play the violin when she was 5 years old. After graduating Pavula Jurjana School of Music at the age of 13, where her violin teacher was Olga Kabanova (school of Leopold Auer) she continued studies at Riga's Special Music School for the gifted children named Emils Darzins with Olga Isakova (school of David Oistrakh), chamber music with Andris Pauls and graduated it in June 2008. In 2007/2008 she was awarded full scholarship for studies in Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy with world-renown professors Pavel Vernikov and Oleksandr Semchuk and chamber music with Alina Company. After graduating both schools in the same year Ms. Krein decided to move to New York and continue her studies at Mannes College The New School For Music, having violin master classes and lessons at Juilliard School of Music with famous professor of Juilliard Lewis Kaplan and received scholarship from the college and Latvian-American Foundation "TILTS" Talent's foundation. From September Margarita is going to study with Dmitri Berlinsky at College of Music at Michigan State University receiving full scholarship from the college and foundations.


Ms. Krein took lessons from many great musicians from all over the world such as Gyorgy Pauk, Sylvia Rosenberg, Midori, Vadim Gluzman, Grigori Kalinovsky, Arkady Fomin, Viktor Pikayzen, Marina Keselman, Andreas Rohn, Viktor Tretjakov, Marina Yashvili, Olivier Charlier and others.
And chamber music Natalia Gutman, Jacob Lateiner (member of Jascha Heifetz Trio), David Korevaar, Jesus Castro-Balbi, Arkady Fomin (members of Klavier Trio),  Valery Avramenko, Gloria Lin, Tetje Tennesen etc.

Ms. Krein participates in the major classical music festivals around the world. Just during this summer she is going to perform at International Academy of Music in Italy, Music in The Mountains Festival in Colorado, USA, SUMMIT Music Festival in New York, USA. In the past few years she has participated in international festivals and projects like AURORA Chamber Music Festival, Sweden, EILAT Music Festival, Israel, London Masterclasses, United Kingdom, Chamber Music Festival in Italy, American-Latvian Chamber Orchestra as a soloist, Conservatory Music in the Mountains, Colorado, United States, Pont-Aven Music Festival, France, „Sommer Musik Fest Rostock” in Germany, Orchestra Giovanille Italiana, ”Wings of Talents,” Latvia, “Noritis Young Violinists Festival” Latvia, Latvian music school competition where she got 1st prize, United Baltic Countries Orchestra and others.
In 2007 Margarita got grant from German-Latvian Cultural, Educational and Information Foundation. In the same year she was awarded 1st place of the 11th International Young Violinists Competition in Russia.
For studies in New York she receives support from Latvian-American Cultural association “TILTS” Talent’s Foundation.
Ms. Krein gave concerts in Latvia, Russia, France, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Czech Republic, Israel, Sweden, Slovenia, UK and the USA. At the age of 17 she had her debut as a soloist with orchestra in the USA with Concervatory Music in The Mountains festival orchestra and later with Latvian-Anerican Chamber Orchestra in Latvian Great Guild Hall (Philharmony Hall) during the Winter Festival. She has also performed at The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas Symphony Hall), Roshong Hall and Fort Lewis College Concert Hall (Colorado), in Gold and White Hall of The Latvian Society in Latvia, as well as Latvian Society of Boston and New York, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Italy, Latvian Opera House, Royal Academy of Music, London, Carnegie Hall Stern/Perelman Auditorium, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, in 2008 a solo recital on Stradivarius violin in W.M.P. Concert Hall, New York.