Born to French-Russian parents in Cordoba (Argentina), Sol Gabetta won her first awards as a very young artist; their number included Radio Suisse Romande Prize (Geneva) and the Natalia Gutmann Award for best musical interpretation at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 2004, she was awarded a fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. The artist graduated from her studies with David Geringas at the Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin in 2006. From 1992 to 1994 she held a scholarship at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, and later studied with Ivan Monighetti at the Musikademie Basel in Switzerland, where she has lectured since October 2005.
Winner of the prestigious Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2004, she released her 2006 début disc with the works of Tchaikovsky and Ginastera on Sony label with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Ari Rasilainen.
The artist opened the 2006–2007 season with her Finnish début with the Tampere Philharmonic and its chief conductor, John Storgårds, made her London début with the London Chamber Orchestra under Christopher Warren Green, and further performs with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Halle Orchestra under André de Ridder. In spring 2007, she appeared at the Manchester Cello Festival invited by its director, Ralph Kirshbaum.
In 2007, Sol Gabetta established her music festival in Solsberg.
Thanks to a generous scholarship of Hans K. Rahn, she plays a G.B. Guadagnini cello from 1759.