Members of L’ARPEGGIATA
Ensemble of original instruments
Baroque Beat

‘One of the most original ensembles around today, L’Arpeggiata combines dazzling virtuosity, intuition and insight to create truly inspirational programmes’ Kate Bolton, Artistic Director / Lufthansa Festival

Founded in 2000, L’Arpeggiata is a French ensemble directed by Christina Pluhar. Its members are some of today’s best European 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 on French, Italian and Neapolitan music from the beginning of the 17th century.

The music of L’Arpeggiata is based upon three main areas of interest: instrumental improvisations, a different approach to singing centred on the development of vocal interpretation influenced by traditional music, and the creation and staging of attractive shows.

Since its foundation L’Arpeggiata has had an incredible response from audiences as well as from critics. They have sold over 100,000 copies of their CDs with Alpha Recordings and have received outstanding reviews for these as well as for their concerts.

Their album ‘La Villanella’, dedicated to the music of Girolamo Kapsberger, was awarded ‘Event of the Month’ by Repertoire des disques in September 2001 and has been awarded with the Premio Internationale del disco per la musica italiana.

Their CD ’La Tarantella’, an encounter between baroque and traditional musicians, won the Cannes Classical Award 2004 as best Early Music CD.

L’Arpeggiata has participated in many of the major French festivals and in the Lufthansa Festival, London, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Festival de Pontoise, Printemps des Arts de Nantes, Les Baroquiales, Rencontres de Vezelay, Euphonia, Festival Musique Sacree de Fribourg, Klangbogen Vienna, Pfigstfestspiele Melk, Sommerklang Freiburg, Academie Bach Arques-La-Bataille, Emociana Antigua -Madrid, Segni Barocci –Foligno, Flagey à Bruxelles, Festival de St Michel-en-Thierache, Festival de Sablé-sur- Sarthe, Brugge Musica Antica, among others.