| Sol Gabetta | |
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Sol Gabetta, 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 1981 Cordoba, Argentina |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupations | Cellist |
| Years active | 1991–present day |
| Website | www.solgabetta.com |
Sol Gabetta (born 1981, Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine cellist of French and Russian descent, now settled in Switzerland.
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Sol Gabetta was born in Villa María, her family moved to the capital city of Córdoba where she studied piano, cello and sang in a chorus. She continued her studies as a cellist in Buenos Aires with Leo Viola and in Madrid at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. At the age of 12 she left Argentina to live in Spain and then Alsace in France.
Since winning her first competition at the age of ten, she has gone on to win numerous other awards, including the Natalia Gutman Award for best musical interpretation in the International Tchaikovsky Competition, an award from the ARD competition in Munich, a Fellowship from the Borletti Buitoni Trust (2003) and 5th place in the Mstislav Rostropovich International Cello Competition. She continues to study in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" with David Geringas, and currently plays on a 1759 G. B. Guadagnini cello, made available to her through private funding by Hans K. Rahn.[1]
She obtained international acclaim at the Lucerne Festival playing as soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev in 2004. Since then she often gives concerto performances all over the world, orchestras she has worked with in the past include the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming engagements are to include performances of Dvorak Concerto with the RSNO, Lalo and Shostakovich No. 1 with Bolshoi Theatre orchestra, Saint-Saens with the Israel Philharmonic, and with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon playing Shostakovitch and Tchaikovsky.
She received the Echo Awards as Artist of the Year in 2009[2][3] and the Diapason d'Or.
Since 2005 she has her own chamber music festival: Solsberg,[4] in Olsberg, Switzerland, and teaches at the Academy in Basel, where she lives.