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Sol Gabetta Sol Gabetta made her internationally acdaimed debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Valery Gergiev after winning the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2004. Born in Argentina, she won her first competition atthe age of ten, soon followed by the Natalia Gutman Award as well as commendations at Moscow'sTchaikovsky Competition and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. A Grammy Award nominee, she received the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award in 2010 and the Würth- Preis of the Jeunesses Musicales in 2012. Following her highly acclaimed debut with the Berlin Philharmonie and Sir Simon Rattle at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival in 2014, Gabetta performed with the Staatskapelle Berlin in December 2014. Other highlights for the 2014/15 season included her debut with theToronto Symphony Orchestra, a European tour with the London Philharmonie Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski as well as recitals across Europe with Bertrand Chamayou, with whom she released a recital CD, The Chopin Album, in February. Gabetta's performances include appearances with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide including the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Orchestre National de France, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bamberger Symphoniker,Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, Bolshoi and Finnish Radio Symphony orchestras and The Philadelphia, London Philharmonie and Philharmonia orchestras. Gabetta collaborates very extensively with conductors Giovanni Antonini, Mario Venzago, Pablo Heras-Casado and Thomas Hengelbrock. She was artist in residence at the Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival in summer 2014, with past residencies at the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus Berlin. She is a regulär guest at festivals such as Verbier, Gstaad, Schwetzingen, Rheingau, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Beethovenfest Bonn. Sol Gabetta is a committed chamber musician, performing worldwide in halls such as Wigmore Hall in London, Palau de la Müsica Catalana in Barcelona and theTheätre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, with distinguished partners including Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Baiba Skride and especially Bertrand Chamayou. Her passion for chamber music is evident in the Festival "Solsberg"which shefounded in Switzerland. Sol Gabetta was named Instrumentalist ofthe Year at the 2013 Echo Klassik Awards, for her Interpretation of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonie and Lorin Maazel. She also received the award in 2007, 2009 and 2011 for her recordings of Haydn, Mozart and Elgar Cello concerti as well as works by Tchaikovsky and Ginastera. Sol Gabetta holds an extensive discography with Sony and has released a duo recital with Helene Grimaud for Deutsche Grammophon. Thanks to a generous private stipend by the Rahn Kulturfonds, Sol Gabetta performs on one ofthe very rare and precious cellos by G B Guadagnini dating from 1759. Sol Gabetta has taught at the Basel Music Academy since 2005.