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Cappella Gabetta
Andres Gabetta,
concertmaster and conductor


Andres Gabetta

The Cappella Gabetta has enabled Sol Gabetta to make one of her musical dreams come true: she, her brother – concertmaster Andrés Gabetta – and a hand-picked team of highly qualified musicians from the same musical background devise repertoires of baroque and early classical music
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which they perform on original instruments at concerts and in the studio.

The ensemble was established in December 2010, and has already made very successful guest appearances in Amsterdam (Concertgebouw Amsterdam), Paris (Salle Gaveau, Théâtre des Champs Elysées), Hamburg (Musikhalle), Wien (Theater an der Wien), Baden Baden (Festspielhaus), Munich (Prinzregententheater), Zurich (Tonhalle), Berlin (Philharmonie) and elsewhere, as well as at illustrious festivals such as the Bremen Music Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Lyon Baroque Music Festival, Rheingau Music Festival and others.

Since 2011, the Cappella Gabetta has made various recordings for Sony Music; one of its Italian baroque repertoire featuring Sol Gabetta (which includes several world premiere recordings), and another on which the mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux performs music by Handel and Hasse. The plaudits received by the orchestra for these CDs have included being selected as the ‘Recording of the Month’ by Gramophone magazine, and as the ‘CD of the week’ on the NDR-Kultur, BR-Klassik and RBB (Berlin) radio stations. Further, the CD “Tromba Veneziana” with the trumpet virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki (2013), “Rival Queens”, a cooperation with Simone Kermes and Vivica Genaux (2014) and collections of compositions regarding the Habsburg court (“Music at the Habsburg Court”) and festively pieces („Christmas Conertos”) with Andrés Gabetta as soloist and concert master (2016) were released with Sony Music. On the CD “Dolce Duello”, released 2017 with Decca Classics Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta perform a musical duel with music by Gabrieli, Caldara, Porpora and more, including three world premieres and 2019 the CD “Tango Seasons” with recordings of the “Four Seasons” by Vivaldi and Piazzolla, performed by bandoneon player Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi and solo violinist Andrés Gabetta came out.

The Cappella Gabetta has, to an increasing extent, been inviting other distinguished instrumentalists and vocalists to participate in joint concert and recording projects in baroque and early classical music, including the soprano Nuria Rial, the trumpet virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki, the violinist Giuliano Carmignola, the baroque recorder player Maurice Steger and the baroque cellist Christophe Coin. The future planning of Cappella Gabetta includes tours with the soprano Nuria Rial, mezzo soprano Teresa Iervolino, countertenor Filippo Minaccia, trumpet player Sergei Nakariakov and bandoneon player Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi.

Concertmaster Andrés Gabetta is recognised as a brilliant baroque violinist. He is one of the closest musical associates of the prominent cellist and conductor Christoph Coin, in whose orchestra, the Orchestre Baroque de Limoges, Gabetta is the concertmaster. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2008 for his recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (Naxos) featuring his own ensemble, the Swiss Baroque Soloists. Andrés Gabetta has recorded many unpublished violin concertos (Timmer, Umstatt, Ragazzi). As part of the big Vivaldi tour by soprano Cecilia Bartoli in December 2018/ January 2019, Andrés Gabetta performed as a soloist with Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”.
 


Sol Gabetta


Sol Gabetta

Following recent debuts with Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle, Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, and BBC Symphony Orchestra with Sakari Oramo opening the BBC Proms, Sol Gabetta starts the season as Artiste étoile at Lucerne Festival.
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As part of her residency she will reunite with Wiener Philharmoniker and Franz Welser-Möst and join forces with Mahler Chamber Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Marin Alsop. Later in the season she will tour extensively throughout Europe with Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. A respected advocate for lesser known works, Sol Gabetta will tour Germany with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France illuminating Weinberg’s Cello Concerto under the direction of Mikko Franck. This season also sees Gabetta return to the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and hr-Sinfonieorchester, and premiere the newly commissioned Michel van der Aa Double Concerto with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

A sought after guest artist at leading festivals, Sol Gabetta opened the 2018 Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and Christoph Eschenbach, and the 2018 Bad Kissingen Festival with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Järvi. Chamber music is at the core of Gabetta’s, visible in recent appearances with the Hagen Quartet at Salzburg Festival, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Elbphilharmonie and Wiener Konzerthaus. In previous seasons chamber music performances led her to venues such as New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ‘Great Performers’ series with her longtime recital partner Bertrand Chamayou, Wigmore Hall in London, Lucerne, Verbier, Schwetzingen and Rheingau festivals, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Beethovenfest Bonn. She continues drawing inspiration from a wide circle of collaborators and musical encounters at the Solsberg Festival, which flourishes under her committed artistic direction.

In recognition of her exceptional artistic achievements, Sol Gabetta was honoured with the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2018 where she appeared as soloist with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann. The ECHO Klassik award saluted her accomplishment biennially between 2007 and 2013, and most recently in 2016, when Sol Gabetta was announced Instrumentalist of the Year for her interpretation of Pēteris Vasks’ Cello Concerto No.2. A Grammy Award nominee, she also received the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award in 2010 and the Würth-Preis of the Jeunesses Musicales in 2012 as well as commendations at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Competition and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She continues to build her extensive discography with SONY, the most recent release is a live recording of the cello concertos by Elgar and Martinů with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle / Krzysztof Urbański. In 2017, Gabetta joined forces with Cecilia Bartoli on an extensive tour throughout Europe showcasing their album Dolce Duello, released on Decca Classics.

Sol Gabetta performs on a cello by Matteo Goffriller from 1730, Venice, provided by Atelier Cels. She has been teaching at the Basel Academy of Music since 2005.