Sol Gabetta

Following her acclaimed residencies with Radio France, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bamberg Symphony, Sol Gabetta opened the 2022/23 season with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska, in the second edition of the BBC Proms Japan. Other highlights of the 2022/23 season have included performances with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Edward Gardner; the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hrůša; and the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (the latter on a European tour), under the direction of Klaus Mäkelä; a tour with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Järvi; and a duo tour with Patricia Kopatchinskaja. As a keen advocate of new compositions for her instrument, she gave the premiere of Francisco Coll’s Cello Concerto, commissioned and written for her, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Sol Gabetta has focussed especially on chamber music during 2022/23, giving trio recitals with Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, and performing with Kristian Bezuidenhout and Francesco Piemontesi at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and at the Schubertiade Vorarlberg. A tour with Bertrand Chamayou took her to Italy, France and Austria. In past seasons she has given chamber music recitals at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Lucerne, Verbier, Salzburg and Schwetzingen Festivals, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and the Beethovenfest Bonn. Every year, a large circle of musical collaborators gathers at the Solsberg Festival in Switzerland, of which she is artistic director.

Her artistic achievements have been recognized in numerous awards, among them the European Culture Prize (2022), the OPUS Klassik in the category ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ (2019), the Herbert von Karajan Prize (2018), the ECHO Klassik (2016, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007), the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany (2012), Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year (2010), a nomination for a Grammy Award (2007) and prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.

Recordings of her performances have been released by SONY Classical and Decca Classics.

She has taught at the Basel Music Academy since 2005.

Sol Gabetta performs on several important Italian master instruments from the early 18th century. These include a cello by Matteo Goffriller from 1730, provided by Atelier Cels in Paris, and, since 2020, the famous ‘Bonamy Dobree-Suggia’ by Antonio Stradivari from 1717, provided by the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger.