With her visionary performances and her extraordinary talent for improvisation she has managed to gain a multitude of devoted followers all over the world. Gabriela is famous for composing new works in real time, inviting her audience to give her themes to improvise on.
She has performed in the most prestigious halls, such as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Sydney Opera House, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Orchard Hall of Tokio and at the festivals in Edinburgh, Salzburg, Lucerne, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Lugano, among others.
She has played with many of the best orchestras: the philharmonic orchestras of Los Angeles, New York, Liverpool and Dresden, the symphony orchestras of Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Toronto, Gewandhaus de Leipzig, Cleveland, City of Birmingham, Vienna Symphony, among others.
Winner of the prestigious Heidelberger Frühling Music Award in 2018 and the 4th International Beethoven Award de Bonn in 2019, in 2015 she also won the Latino Grammy® for best classical music album. Likewise, she has won two Echo Klassik Awards.
Gabriela is an honorary consul for Amnesty International and was nominated by the Human Rights Foundation, for her fight for human rights in her native Venezuela. She was invited to the 2013 “Women of the World” Festival in London, and twice to the Davos-Klosters World Economic Forum (Switzerland). In 2012 she received the Rockefeller Award for her contribution to the Arts and in 2008 she was invited to play at the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.