PROGRAMME
B. Bartók: Roumanian folk dances
L. Hoffman: Concert for cello and orchestra, D major
B. Bartók: Divertimento for string orchestra (1939)
L. Haydn: Concert for cello and orchestra, C major, Hob. VIIb
SOL GABETTA, YOUNG CELLO STAR IN EUROPE, RETURNS TO ARGENTINA
Sol Gabetta was born in Córdoba (Argentina), received her first prize at the age of 10 and won also, among many other distinctions, the Moscow Tchaikowsky Competition, the Natalia Gutman prize and the ARD Competition in Munich. During the Luzern Festival, 2004, she obtained the Crédit Suisse prize for Young Artists which resulted in her first concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Valéry Gergiev. With a scholarship from the Mozarteum Argentino she attended classes at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, in Madrid, later at the Basel Music Academy with Ivan Monighetti and at the Eisler Academy in Berlin with David Geringas. Sol Gabetta is a young star of the international stage, acclaimed in Europe, in the United States and in Asia. She created her own chamber music festival, “Solsberg” in Switzerland, and records exclusively for RCA (Sony Music). Since 2005 she is a teacher at the Basel Academy of Music.
Created in 1984 by graduate musicians from different Swiss Music Academies, the Basel Chamber Orchestra is one of the internatioanlly best-known chamber ensembles
Paul Sacher, famous music patron of the XXth. century, expected the highest level of interpretation in programmes containing both ancient and modern works, a tradition continued and respected by this ensemble. With up to 90 annual concerts in Europe and Switzerland, the Basel Chamber Orchestra offers its own concert series in Basel and elsewhere on tour. They collaborate with renownend artists such as Philippe Herreweghe, Attilio Cremonesi, Ton Koopman, Heinz Holliger, Cecilia Bartoli, Magdalena Kozena, Emma Kirkby, Andreas Scholl, Christian Tetzlaff, Julia Fischer, Daniel Hope, Matthias Goerne, Angelika Kirchschlager, Tabea Zimmermann, Renaud Capuçon, Pieter Wispelwey, Steven Isserlis, Thomas Zehetmair, Giuliano Carmignola, Christophe Coin, Robert Levin, Andreas Staier, Bobby McFerrin, and many others, comissioning and playing works for the first time from, i.e., Andrea Scartazzini, Uri Caine, Valentin Silvestrov, Tigran Mansurian and others. Andrés Gabetta is first violin and conductor of the Basel Chamber Orchestra.
