Sol Gabetta

Sol Gabetta established herself as one of the most promising cellists to emerge in the first part of the 21st century. She has a substantial international career as a soloist and with a growing number of recordings. While she has drawn the most attention for her performances of the standard concerto and chamber music repertoire, she has also championed contemporary works by composers as diverse as Takemitsu, Ligeti, and Vasks. Gabetta was featured on Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s album Plaisirs Illuminés: Veress, Ginastera, Coll in 2021.
Gabetta was born on April 18, 1981, in Villa María, Cordoba, Argentina, and moved to Spain to study when she was 12. She went on to win a number of major international competitions, including the Natalia Gutman Award at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the ARD competition in Munich. She came to wide international attention when she played with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev at the 2004 Lucerne Festival as a result of winning the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award. She has performed with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, under conductors such as Neeme Järvi, Charles Dutoit, and Christoph Eschenbach. In 2005, Gabetta began teaching at the Musikhochschule in Basel, Switzerland, and in 2006 founded the Solsberg Festival, an annual series of concerts of chamber music. She has had several works written for her, including Concerto en Sol by Wolfgang Rihm, which she premiered in 2020.
Gabetta has recorded almost exclusively for Sony Classical but has also been heard on the Deutsche Grammophon and Decca labels. Her albums have received numerous honors, including five Echo Klassik Awards and a Diapason d’Or. She has earned Grammy nominations for her recording of concertos by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, and Ginastera in 2007, and in 2013 for the album Duo, with Hélène Grimaud. Gabetta issued a recording of Schumann's works in 2018 and joined Kopatchinskaja on the Alpha label in 2021 for a recording of Francisco Coll’s Les Plaisirs illuminés. ~ Stephen Eddins & Keith Finke