The Swiss Grand Prix for music has been awarded to the Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta.
The cash prize is worth 100,000 Swiss francs. That’s US $109,372.00.
Gabetta, 43, lives in Switzerland in Switzerland and teaches cello at the Basel Music Academy.
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