[1] Lauma's father, Arnolds Skride, conducts a musical ensemble after ten years as a violinist at the Dailes Theatre.
She began studying the piano at the age of 5 and then entered the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music.
[3] She became known to a wider audience through performances as a duo with her sister Baiba, with whom she also released an album in March 2007 with works by Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven and Maurice Ravel.
In 2009, for example, she made her debut with the hr-Sinfonieorchester and has appeared as a guest with orchestras such as the Hamburger Symphoniker and the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg.
She founded with her and the violist Lise Berthaud and the cellist Harriet Krijgh the Skride Piano Quartet.