Sol Gabetta (born 18 April 1981) is an Argentine cellist. The daughter of Andrés Gabetta and Irène Timacheff-Gabetta, she has French and Russian ancestry. Her brother Andrés is a baroque violinist.

Career

Gabetta began to learn violin at the age of three, and cello at age four. She continued to study both instruments until age eight, and then switched her focus exclusively to the cello. She won her first competition at the age of 10, soon followed by the

Natalia Gutman Natalia Grigoryevna Gutman (russian: Наталья Григорьевна Гутман) (born 14 November 1942 in Kazan), PAU, is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted t ...

Award. Her teachers include Christine Waleska, Leo Viola,

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Reina Sofía School of Music The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It belongs to the Albéniz Foundation, and it bears the name of its Honorary Pr ...

, Piero Farulli and Ljerko Spiller. Gabetta won the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2004. In 2006, she founded her own festival, the Festival Solsberg. Her debut with the

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and

Sir Simon Rattle Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is a British-German conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal ...

was at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival in 2014. Her debut with the

Staatskapelle Berlin The Staatskapelle Berlin () is a German orchestra and the resident orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden. The orchestra is one of the oldest in the world. Until the fall of the German Empire in 1918 the orchestra's name was ''Kö ...

occurred in December 2014. She was Artist in Residence at the

Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival is a classical music festival held each summer throughout the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany. History The festival was founded in 1986 by German concert pianist Justus Frantz. In 2006, the 2 ...

in summer 2014, and also held artistic residencies at the Philharmonie and

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. She was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the

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in 2018. Other prizes have included the

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for Young Artist of the Year in 2010 and the

Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany The Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany (german: link=no, Würth-Preis der Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland) has been awarded since 1991 to artists, ensembles or projects who implement 's (JMD) values and objectives in an exemplary manner. ...

in 2012. At the Echo Klassik Awards, she received the award in 2007, 2009 and 2013, being named Instrumentalist of the Year in 2013. She received the ''

Diapason d'Or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

'' for her recordings of Haydn, Mozart and Elgar cello concerti, as well as works by Tchaikovsky and Ginastera. Gabetta has made commercial recordings for

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and

Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon (; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram. Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain, it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of ...

. Contemporary composers who have written music for Gabetta include Michel van der Aa, who composed ''Up-close'' for Gabetta and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and

Pēteris Vasks Pēteris Vasks (born 16 April 1946) is a Latvian composer. Biography Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player wi ...

, who wrote his cello concerto 'Presence' for Gabetta. In November 2015, Gabetta's album of the music of Vasks, ''Presence'', was released, which includes the cello concerto 'Presence', and "Musique du Soir" for organ and cello, for which daughter and mother perform together. Supported by a private stipend from the Rahn Kulturfonds, Gabetta performs on a cello by G. B. Guadagnini dating from 1759. She resides in Switzerland and has been teaching cello at the Basel Music Academy since 2005. She is also a regular presenter for the programme ''KlickKlack'', for Bavarian Radio (BR-Klassik).

Discography

*''Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Ginastera'' – with Munich Radio Orchestra (Sony Classical) August 2006 *''Il Progetto Vivaldi'' – with Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Sony Classical) released September 2007 *''Cantabile'' – with Prague Philharmonic (Sony Classical) released September 2008 *''Shostakovich Concerto No. 2'' – with Munich Philharmonic (Sony Classical) released September 2008 *''Haydn / Hofmann / Mozart: Cello Concertos'' – with Kammerorchester Basel (Sony Classical) released September 2009 *''Elgar: Cello Concerto / Dvořák'' – with Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Sony Classical) released June 2010 *''Pēteris Vasks: Gramata Cellam'' – The Book for Solo Cello (Sony Classical) released March 2010 *''Shostakovich Concerto No. 1'' – with Munich Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel (Sony Classical) released August 2012 *''Duo'' – with

Hélène Grimaud Hélène Rose Paule Grimaud (born 7 November 1969) is a French classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York. Early life and education Grimaud was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She described fami ...

(Deutsche Grammophon) released October 2012 *''Il Progetto Vivaldi II'' (Sony Classical) released December 2012 *''Il Progetto Vivaldi III'' (Sony Classical) released September 2013 *''Prayer'' (Sony Classical) released October 2014 *''The Chopin Album'' – with Bertrand Chamayou (Sony Classical) released February 2015 *''Beethoven Triple Concerto'' – with Kammerorchester Basel (Sony Classical) released September 2015 *''Vasks – Presence'' – with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta (Sony Classical) released November 2015 *''Elgar: Cello Concerto / Martinů: Cello Concerto No.1'' – with

(Sony Classical) released November 2016 *''Dolce Duello: Cecilia & Sol'' – with

Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli, Cavaliere OMRI (; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best known for her interpretations of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini and Vivaldi, as well as for her ...

(

Decca Classics Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934 by Lewis, Jack Kapp, American Decca's first president, and Milton Rackmil, who later became American Decca's president. In ...

) released 11 November 2017 *''Schumann'' – (Sony Classical) released November 2018 *Camille Saint-Saëns, '' Cello Concerto n°1 & n°2,'' Sol Gabetta, cello, Les Siècles, conductor François-Xavier Roth. Warner (2021) *''Plaisirs illumines'' – Sol Gabetta with

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born March 1977) is a Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist. Biography Early life Kopatchinskaja was born in Chișinău, in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Moldova). She comes from a family of musicians. H ...

and Camerata Bern, Sony Classical, January 8 2021 *''Sol & Pat'' - Sol Gabetta with

and Camerata Bern Sony Classical, October 8 2021

Personal life

She is the youngest of four children of Andrés Gabetta and Irène Timacheff, parents of French and Russian descent. Her older brother Andrés is a professional violinist. She speaks six languages, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, German and English. Sol is married to Balthazar Soulier, with whom she has a son.

Films

*''Sol Gabetta joue Haydn et Vasks''. ZDF 2009. Producers: David Stevens, Gösta Courkamp. Performed at the Solsberg Festival. Haydn's Concerto and ''Dolcissimo'' (2nd movement of ''Gramata Cellam''; The book) by Vasks. *''Sol Gabetta, A Part of My Soul: Portrait of the cellist Sol Gabetta.'' 2013. Written by Annette Schreier. Producers: NDR / Screen Land Film

References

External links

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Harrison-Parrott agency profile of Sol Gabetta

Müller & Pavlik German-language agency profile of Sol Gabetta

Solsberg Festival page

'La violoncellista cordobesa Sol Gabetta fue premiada nuevamente en Europa', Cadena3, 20 October 2009
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