Sol Gabetta
Gabetta ( born September 16, 1981 in Villa María ) is an Argentine cellist and television presenter.
Life
Gabetta was the daughter of French-Russian parents ( Andrés Gabetta and Irène Timacheff ). Even as a child she amazed by their musical talent. She sang at the entrance examination for a musical kindergarten to the surprise of the jury, the melody of the A minor Violin Concerto by Antonio Vivaldi.
As a ten- year-old she won her first competition in Argentina. Since then, she has received various awards, including at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Natalia Gutman Award and the ECHO Klassik 2013.
Internationally known, however it was by a 3rd prize at the ARD Competition in Munich in 1998. 1992 to 1994 she was awarded a scholarship at the " Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía ", Madrid. Then she started a course, first with Ivan Monighetti at the Music Academy of Basel. Your college education, she graduated from David Geringas at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler in Berlin with the concert exam. Already during her studies she has performed with numerous orchestras and took Sony a highly acclaimed debut CD.
In 2004, she attracted international attention when she gave at the Lucerne Festival as winner of the " Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award " her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev.
Since October 2005 she taught as an assistant to Ivan Monighetti at the Music Academy in Basel. They also initiated the Chamber Music Festival in the Swiss Solsberg Olsberg.
Since April 2010, she moderated alternating with Martin Grubinger the Sunday music magazine click clack on Bavarian television.
Peteris Vasks dedicated her 2012 cello concerto "presence ". The premiere was held in Amsterdam in October 2012.
Repertoire
Her repertoire includes all the major works of the cello literature, of the Beethoven sonatas by Elgar Concerto, Vivaldi and Haydn concertos to contemporary modernity.
Instrument
Gabetta plays a Guadagnini cello from 1759, which is worth around two million euros ( scholarship of Hans K. Rahn ).
Guest appearances
- Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under Andrey Boreyko
- Orchestre National de Radio France
- Kremerata Baltica
- Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
- Vienna Chamber Philharmonic
- Basel Chamber Orchestra under Christopher Hogwood, Paul McCreesh, inter alia,
- St. Petersburg Symphony
- Munich Chamber Orchestra under Christoph Poppen
- Basel Symphony Orchestra under Gilbert Varga
- Bilbao Symphony Orchestra under Gilbert Varga
- Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires
- Kissinger Sommer
- Ludwigsburg Castle Festival
- Music Days in Hitzacker
- Salon de Provence and Perigord
- Alpenklassik Festival 2007 in Bad Reichenhall with Baiba and Lauma Skride
- Eivind Gullberg Jensen Munich Philharmonic under
- Bremer Meisterkonzerte 2008 Bertrand Chamayou
- New Year's Concert 2009, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main
- Beethoven Festival 2009 in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn
- " Friday concert " Mai 2010 of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Alte Oper Frankfurt
Reviews
Radio Klassik magazine, 2001: " After the concert you did not even know whether you prefer once again wanted to hear Anne- Sophie Mutter or just those Gabetta with Schubert's A minor Sonata D 821. Musicians such as the 20 -year-old Sol encountered rarely. They played their program [ ... ] with great devotion and bravura technique. "
Res Musica, 2005: " One hesitates not to compare them with the greats. "
Crescendo magazine, 2008: "She not only has a brilliant technique, she brings the warm sound of her cello to sing. "
Badische Zeitung, June 15, 2009: " Devoted, with much warmth and romantisierendem ductus designed the cellist the soft arches in the adagio movement and is developing the velvety, silky smooth sound of her precious Guadagnini cello. This is intimate, flowing cello song before it again flinkfingrig virtuoso in the handle and bow technique and with a fierce gesture in the final Allegro is: a hot durchpulster Haydn, light-footed and passionate at the same time as it corresponds to the temperament and mercurial charm of this cellist. This was Haydn explosive. "
Awards
Discography
- 2006: Works for cello: Tchaikovsky, Saint -Saens, Ginastera ( Sony / BMG)
- 2007: Il Progetto Vivaldi ( Sony / BMG)
- 2008: Cantabile: Opera arias and songs arranged for cello ( RCA Red Seal)
- 2008: Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2/Cellosonate ( RCA Red Seal)
- 2009: Hofmann, Haydn, Mozart: Cello Concertos of Viennese Classicism ( RCA Red Seal)
- 2010: Elgar Cello Concerto / Works by Elgar, Dvorak, Respighi and bonus CD with Vasks ( RCA Red Seal)
- 2011: Il Progetto Vivaldi 2 (Sony Classical)
- 2011: KulturSPIEGEL - The best good classical CDs: Works for Cello and Orchestra ( Sony Classical)
- 2012: Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op 107 / Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata, Op 19 (Sony Classical)
- 2012: Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2 / Sonata for Cello and Piano ( RCA Red Seal / Sony Music)
- 2012: Duo with Hélène Grimaud / Piano ( German Grammophon / Universal )
- 2013: Il Progetto Vivaldi 3 (Sony Classical)
Film
- The cellist Sol Gabetta. A piece of my soul. Documentary, Germany 2013, 55 min, written and directed by Annette Schreier, Production: Screenland film, NDR, arte, first broadcast: September 1, 2013 in arte, Summary of arte