1. Sol Gabetta was born on 18 April 1981 and is an Argentine cellist.
14 Facts About Sol Gabetta
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Sol Gabetta began to learn violin at the age of three, and cello at age four.
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Sol Gabetta continued to study both instruments until age eight, and then switched her focus exclusively to the cello.
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Sol Gabetta won her first competition at the age of 10, soon followed by the Natalia Gutman Award.
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Sol Gabetta's teachers include Christine Walevska, Leo Viola, Ivan Monighetti at Reina Sofia School of Music, Piero Farulli and Ljerko Spiller.
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Sol Gabetta won the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2004.
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Sol Gabetta was Artist in Residence at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in summer 2014, and held artistic residencies at the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus Berlin.
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Sol Gabetta was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2018.
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Sol Gabetta received the Diapason d'Or for her recordings of Haydn, Mozart and Elgar cello concerti, as well as works by Tchaikovsky and Ginastera.
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Sol Gabetta has made commercial recordings for Sony and Deutsche Grammophon.
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Sol Gabetta is a regular presenter for the programme KlickKlack, for Bavarian Radio.
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Sol Gabetta is the youngest of four children of Andres Gabetta and Irene Timacheff, parents of French and Russian descent.
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Sol Gabetta speaks six languages, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, German and English.
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Sol Gabetta is married to Balthazar Soulier, with whom she has a son.