Recent milestones in Sol Gabetta's career include acclaimed debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival as well as debuts at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and the Opening Night of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. This season, he has been re-invited by the Vienna Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Extensive tours take Sol Gabetta together with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra through Europe and with the Basel Symphony Orchestra through Great Britain. In the second half of the season, Sol Gabetta will return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel and, together with her long-time recital partner Bertrand Chamayou, will make her debut in the “Great Performers” series at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She will also be performing with Chamayou at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Philharmonie Luxembourg. Sol Gabetta is Artist in Residence at the Orchestre national de Lyon and the Kissinger Sommer, which she will open together with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Järvi, before performing there in a chamber music recital with Janine Jansen and Alexander Gavrylyuk.

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A welcome guest at the world's most important festivals, Sol Gabetta will open the 2018 Schleswig Holstein Music Festival with concerts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach. Chamber music is a particular focus of her work, evident this season in performances with the Hagen Quartet at the Salzburg Festival, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Elbphilharmonie and the Vienna Konzerthaus. She is also a regular guest at venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Lucerne, Verbier, Schwetzingen and Rheingau Festivals, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and the Beethovenfest Bonn. As every year, a large and lively circle of musical partners comes together at the Solsberg Festival in Switzerland, where Sol Gabetta is the artistic director.

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In recognition of her outstanding artistic activities, Sol Gabetta will receive the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the 2018 Salzburg Easter Festival, where she will perform as a soloist with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann as well as in chamber music recitals. In 2016, Sol Gabetta was once again awarded the ECHO Klassik as Instrumentalist of the Year and for her interpretation of the Cello Concerto No. 2 by Pēteris Vasks, after her recordings had already been honored with this prestigious award in 2013, 2011, 2009 and 2007. Other awards won by the Grammy-nominated artist include the Tchaikovsky Competition Moscow and the ARD International Music Competition, the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award 2010 and the Würth Prize of the Jeunesses Musicales 2012. Sol Gabetta has an extensive discography with SONY, most recently the recording of the cello concertos by Elgar and Martinu with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle/Krzysztof Urbański.

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In the 2018/2019 season, there will be two world premieres that are currently being written for Sol Gabetta and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The new work by Michel van der Aa will be premiered with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, while the second world premiere will be by composer Francisco Coll.