SOL GABETTA PERFORMS TCHAIKOVSKY
SOL GABETTA PERFORMS TCHAIKOVSKY
UWE ARENS
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, October 27 at 8pm Sunday, October 29 at 3pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday, October 28 at 8pm
Marin Alsop, Music Director Sol Gabetta, cello
Felix Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’ s Dream, op. 21
Pyotr Ilyich |
Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33 |
Tchaikovsky |
Sol Gabetta |
INTERMISSION Claude Debussy
About the Artists
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’ s bio, please see pg. 10.
Sol Gabetta
Sol Gabetta achieved international acclaim upon winning the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2004 and making her debut with Vienna Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev. Born in Argentina, Gabetta won her first competition at the age of ten, followed by the Natalia Gutman Award and commendations at Moscow’ s Tchaikovsky Competition and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
Prélude à l’ Après-midi d’ un faune( Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
Richard Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, op. 59
The concert will end at approximately 9:50 pm on Friday and Saturday and at 4:50 pm on Sunday.
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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.
Gabetta made highly acclaimed debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle at the Baden- Baden Easter Festival in 2014, at Mostly Mozart in New York in 2015 and at the opening concert of the BBC Proms in 2016 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo. Last season, Gabetta worked with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala in Milan and the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, as well as the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France.
Tours took her to festivals including Lucerne and Salzburg with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Daniele Gatti, to Scandinava and Estonia with the SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester and to Asia with the kammerorchesterbasel. In recital, Gabetta appeared on the Boston Celebrity Series, Club musical de Québec, San Francisco Performances and Shriver Hall Concert Series. She toured Germany with Hélène Grimaud and their highly acclaimed Duo project. Gabetta performs with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide including Washington’ s National Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bamberger Symphoniker, the Bolshoi and Finnish radio symphony orchestras and the Philadelphia, London Philharmonic and Philharmonia orchestras. She also collaborates extensively with conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, Krzysztof Urbański and David Zinman.
Gabetta has appeared at Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival and Rosendal Chamber Music Festival in Norway, and also at Verbier, Schwetzingen, Rheingau, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Beethovenfest Bonn.
As a chamber musician, Gabetta performs in venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with partners including Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Bertrand Chamayou.
Gabetta was named Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2016 Echo Klassik Awards. She also received the award in 2007, 2009, 20011 and 2013. She has an extensive discography with Sony and has also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon.
Thanks to a generous private stipend by the Rahn Kulturfonds, Gabetta performs on a 1759 cello by G. B. Guadagnini. Gabetta has taught at the Basel Music Academy since 2005.
Sol Gabetta last appeared with the BSO in March 2015, performing Haydn ' s Cello Concerto in C Major and Christopher Rouse ' s Song of Birds, Marin Alsop, conductor.
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