Sol Gabetta

Sol Gabetta, who was born in 1981 to French-Russian parents in Córdoba, Argentina, studied with Ivan Monighetti in Basel and David Geringas in Berlin. She has been closely associated with Lucerne Festival for more than 20 years, most recently as “artiste étoile” in the summer of 2018, in which role she left her mark on the programming. Her international career also began here, when she won the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2004 and made her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Festival. Since then, Gabetta has worked with such orchestras as the Orchestre national de France, the Orchestre de Paris, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Los Angeles and London Philharmonics, and the Philadelphia and Philharmonia Orchestras. In 2019-20, she was “Portrait Artist” with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and “Capell-Virtuoso” of the Staatskapelle Dresden. In addition to the famous cello concertos, Sol Gabetta also performs repertoire rarities and contemporary music. In 2021-22, for example, she presented Mieczysław Weinberg’s Cello Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Klaus Mäkelä; in 2020 she premiered Wolfgang Rihm’s Concerto en Sol. A passionate chamber musician, she has presented her own festival, “SOLsberg,” at the Klosterkirche Olsberg since 2006; together with her longtime recital partner Bertrand Chamayou, she performed last season in France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. Her CDs have received the Echo Klassik Award five times and, in 2019, the Opus Klassik. In 2018, she was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival. Sol Gabetta plays Italian master instruments from the 18th century, including a cello by Matteo Goffriller (c. 1730), provided to her by Atelier Cels Paris, and the “Bonamy Dobree-Suggia” Stradivarius from 1717, on generous loan from the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger.

Lucerne Festival debut on 29 August 2001 in a concert of works by Penderecki, Schubert, Vasks, and Tchaikovsky.

Junly 2022