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Trio Kopatchinskaja/Gabetta/Sigfridsson
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violin
Sol Gabetta, Violoncello
Henri Sigfridsson, Piano
When the fiery temperament of the pianist Henri Sigfridsson combines with the explosive
verve of the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the sensitivity and passion of the cellist
Sol Gabetta, the result is a trio whose elan and expressive power will leave no one indifferent. In 2002, Patricia Kopatchinskaja received the prestigious Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, which included a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Mariss
Jansons. Ever since she has been very busy on the international concert circuit, performing at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Centre in New York, the Vienna Musikverein and London’s Wigmore Hall. Her interpretations are uncompromising in their approach, betraying an unerring sense of musicianship. Since 2007 she has recorded exclusively for NAÏVE. Her most recent CD, featuring a period-instrument performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the conductor Philippe Herreweghe and his Orchestre des
Champs-Elysées, has won the 2010 BBC Music Magazine Award 2010, among other prizes.
The cellist Sol Gabetta is arguably the most sought-after cellist of the younger generation. She captivates audiences with her incomparable velvety cello sound which invariably
gives pride of place to expressiveness. No less remarkable is her consummate technical
mastery.
Her recordings, released by Sony Music since 2006, have all come out among the top
three of the German classical charts. By now she has appeared on all continents with orchestras such as the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the
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Royal Philharmonic and conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel,
Zubin Mehta and others. As a winner of the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award (2004)
she, too, made her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev. In 2007
and 2009 Sol Gabetta received the Echo Classics Award in the “Best Instrumentalist” category.
The pianist Henri Sigfridsson is in great demand as a soloist, chamber musician and
singer. He won first prize at the Franz Liszt Competition in Weimar in 1994 and at the
Nordic Soloist Competition in 1995, second prize and the audience award at the renowned Geza Anda Competition in Zurich in 2000 and first prize, the audience award
and the chamber music award at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn
in 2005. He rounds off his activities as a solo and chamber music performer with occasional appearances as a baritone who accompanies himself on the piano.
In 2004 the three musicians made their debut as a piano trio in Basel. “If the classical
music scene were to look for superstars in the way the pop scene does, they would long
have been discovered as top shots. In the realm of Mozart, Brahms and Schoenberg such
labels are better avoided, but not the spotting of exceptional talents“, the Basler Zeitung
commented at the time. Ever since the trio has made its mark at the principal European
venues and at international festivals, garnering invitations of growing importance. Their
concert at the Schwetzingen Festival in May 2009 was recorded by the SWR television
station and broadcast throughout Europe. During the 2009/2010 season the trio made
guest appearances at venues including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Châtelet Paris, the Vienna Musikverein, the Liederhalle Stuttgart and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.
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