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Following her recent residencies with Staatskapelle Dresden and Bamberger Symphoniker, Sol Gabetta
opens the 2024/25 season with a tour of Europe with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and
Mikko Franck. At the Wiener Konzerthaus, she has thrilled audiences time and again, she will be featured in
her portrait series across two chamber music evenings and as a soloist, performing concertos by
Shostakovich and Saint-Saëns with Wiener Symphoniker and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. After her
long-anticipated return to the U.S. for a debut with the New York Philharmonic and performances with The
Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Klaus Mäkelä, one of her
most esteemed musical colleagues, Gabetta will join the New York Philharmonic and Jakub Hrůša in 2025
once again for a guest performance at the Bravo! Vail Festival in Colorado.
Gabetta maintains her longstanding connection to the Philharmonia Orchestra illuminating Weinberg’s Cello
Concerto under the direction of Santtu-Matias Rouvali and returns to the Munchner Philharmoniker with
Lahav Shani after earning wide acclaim for her powerful rendition of Lutosławski’s Concerto for Cello and
Orchestra last season. Upcoming engagements would be concerts with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-
Orchester Zürich, Gewandhaus Orchestra led by Andris Nelsons. Other highlights included appearances
with Constantinos Carydis and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in tribute performances to
Shostakovich and Schnittke, and performances with Gabetta’s fellow ‘inventer’, violinist Patricia
Kopatchinskaja presenting known and unknown works as part of a tour of Germany, as well as apperances
with Staatskapelle Berlin and Edward Gardner, Concertgebouw Orchestra and a European tour with Oslo
Philharmonic - both led by Klaus Mäkelä. A respected advocate of new compositions for her instrument, Sol
Gabetta gave the world premiere performance at Radio France of a newly commissioned Cello Concerto by
Francisco Coll which was created especially for her. Gabetta recently brought this concerto to the BBC
Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, following a previous performance at the BBC Proms Japan,
where she shared the stage at Tokyo’s Orchard Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
A sought-after guest artist at leading festivals, Sol Gabetta was Artiste étoile at Lucerne Festival where she
appeared with Wiener Philharmoniker and Franz Welser-Möst, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and François-
Xavier Roth and the London Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Marin Alsop. Chamber music is at the core
of Gabetta’s work, visible in her upcoming trio recitals with Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, a tour
with Bertrand Chamayou through Europe, and recent appearances with Kristian Bezuidenhout and
Francesco Piemontesi at Gstaad Festival and at the Schubertiade. In the past, chamber music
performances led her to venues such as New York’s Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall in London, Lucerne,
Verbier, Salzburg, Schwetzingen and Rheingau festivals, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Beethovenfest
Bonn.
Sol Gabetta was honoured with the European Culture Prize in 2022. She also received the Herbert von
Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2018 where she appeared as soloist with the Staatskapelle
Dresden and Christian Thielemann. In 2019 she was awarded the first OPUS Klassik Award as
Instrumentalist of the Year for her interpretation of Schumann’s Cello Concerto. The ECHO Klassik award
saluted her accomplishments biennially between 2007 and 2013, and in 2016. A GRAMMY Award
nominee, she also received the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award in 2010 and the Würth-Preis
of the Jeunesses Musicales in 2012 as well as commendations at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Competition and
the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She continues to build her extensive discography with
SONY Classical, the most recent releases being a recording of late Schumann works and a live recording
of the cello concertos by Elgar and Martinů with Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle / Krzysztof
Urbański. In 2017, Gabetta joined forces with Cecilia Bartoli on an extensive tour throughout Europe
showcasing their album Dolce Duello, released on Decca Classics.
Sol Gabetta performs on several Italian master instruments from the early 18th century, including a cello by
Matteo Goffriller from 1730, Venice, provided to her by Atelier Cels Paris. She has been teaching at the
Basel Music Academy since 2005.
