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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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