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The cellist Sol Gabetta was born in Argentina,  the daughter of French and Russian parents. She was only ten when she won her first competition in Argentina, and has received many more awards since then including the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and the ARD Competition in Munich and the Natalia Gutman Prize.

In 2004 Sol Gabetta made her début with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev and has since made guest appearances with many of the world’s great orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.She appears at major festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and the Saratoga Festival and has recently established her own festival in Switzerland called "Solsberg".

In this week’s Inspired Minds, Sol Gabetta speaks to Breandáin O’Shea about her why her parents drove 800 kilometres for her first music lessons, her influence from different schools of cello playing and how she believes concerts need to kept intimate to communicate the true meaning of music.