Sol Gabetta & Henri Sigfridsson

Every season we make it a point of honor to bring young, unknown talent to our country for the first time. With this concert, in which we combine southern fire with a Nordic character, we live up to that reputation. The young Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta is not yet twenty-five years old, but her exceptional talent has not gone unnoticed: among other things, she won the Natalia Gutman Prize in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and received the prestigious Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2004, which among other things, she was able to perform in concert with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Gergiev. She studied successively in Madrid (Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia), Basel (with Ivan Monighetti) and currently in Berlin (with David Geringas) and participated several times in Gidon Kremer's Les Muséiques festival in Basel. Tonight she will perform with the young Finnish pianist Henri Sigfridsson (°1974), who has been awarded Finland's most important cultural prize, the ABOA Prize. In addition to a busy calendar as a soloist with renowned orchestras, Sigfridsson likes to focus on chamber music with like-minded people such as Ivry Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Boris Pergamenschikov and Patricia Kopatishinskaya (Sol Gabetta and Henri Sigfridsson form a piano trio with her). Sigfridsson is also a gifted bass-baritone, but tonight he sings with his hands.