Christina Pluhar, founder and artistic director of the L’Arpeggiata, devoted herself to the studies of the lute, theorbo, baroque guitar and baroque harp at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands) with Toyohiko Satoh, at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) with Hopkinson Smith, and at the Schuola Civica di Milano (Italy) with Mara Galassi. In 1992, she obtained her diploma for Early Music as well as a first prize at the International Music Competition of Malmö with the ensemble La Fenice. Her repertoire includes music of the Renaissance and Baroque for lute, baroque guitar, archlute, theorbo and baroque harp, where she excelled as soloist.

Founded in 2000, L’Arpeggiata is an outstanding ensemble directed by Christina Pluhar. Its members are some of today’s best soloists and in addition they work in collaboration with some exceptional singers from the Baroque and the traditional music worlds. Their aim is to revive an almost unknown repertoire and to focus their artistic work especially from the beginning of the 17th century.

 

 

Program:
TEATRO D’AMORE
Music by Claudio Monteverdi & his contemporaries
Claudio Monteverdi Toccata Instrumental
Barbara Strozzi Che si può fare Céline Scheen
Maurizio Cazzati Ciaccona
Claudio Monteverdi Si dolce e’l tormento Céline Scheen