Arianna Savall

1972年出生在瑞士，Jordi Savall之女--Arianna10岁开始学习古典竖琴，1996年被授予竖琴专业资格，她的竖琴弹唱纯净、沁人心脾。在她的引领下把聆听者带入一个如诗梦幻的画境
 
Arianna Savall, who was born in Basle (Switzerland) in 1972 into a family of Catalan musicians, began her classical-harp studies with Magdalena Barrera, and in 1991 she also began singing lessons with Maria Dolors Aldea at the music school in Terrassa, where she completed her singing and harp studies.She began studying the performance of music from earlier periods with Rolf Lislevand at the Toulouse Conservatory (France) in 1992, and joined a number of other courses taught by Andrew Lawrence-King, Hopkinson Smith, and her parents Montserrat Figueras and Jordi Savall.In 1996 she went back to the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland for postgraduate studies in singing with Kurt Widmer, while also specializing in historical-harp playing with Heidrun Rosenzweig. She sang in a baroque opera for the first time in the Theater Basel in 2000: the &Opera Seria& (Vienna 1769) by Florian Leopold Gassman, with Carlos Harmuch conducting.
 
2002 saw her debut in the Barcelona opera house, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, in a production of Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo, directed by her father Jordi Savall, in which she took the role of Eurydice. That performance of the opera was recorded on DVD for the BBC and Opus Arte, and the critics praised the production as one of the most beautiful and magical versions of Orfeo.She played the role of Casilda in the opera &Arianna&, a pasticcio by Handel, in Basel's Scala Theatre, as well as performing as a singer and harpist in the opera &Sueños y Folías& in the Teatro Liceo in Salamanca, and singing in &Celos aún del ayre matan&, an opera by Juan Hidalgo, in the Barcelona Auditorium and the Konzerthaus in Vienna. She has also taken part as a soloist in The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell with the Main Barockorchester Frankfurt, and has sung the role of Clorinda in Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by C. Monteverdi with Les Concerts des Nations.
 
She has been performing and recording with the ensemble Hespèrion XXI since 1997, including her first recording: she played the harp to accompany her mother in &Tonos Humanos& by José Marín (Alia Vox), in a recording that was awarded a &Diapason d'Or&.She has participated in numerous Alia Vox recordings as a singer and harpist, highlights being &Don Quixote&, unanimously voted &Record of the Year& (Midem Classical Awards 2006), the first album recorded with her family &Du temps et de l'instant&, a finalist in the SGAE music awards of 2005, and &Lux Feminae&, the latest release from Montserrat Figueras.At the same time she has worked with other groups such as Mala Punica in &Helas Avril& (ERATO), with the Ricercar Consort in &Sopra la Rosa& (MIRARE), with Rolf Lislevand in &Alfabeto& (NAÏVE), with Pedro Estevan in &El aroma del tiempo& (GLOSSA), with Il Desiderio in &Jouissance vous donneray& and &Vergine Bella& (AELUS), singing as a soloist in the Monteverdi's Vespers with LA FENICE, conducted by Jean Tubery and, in 2004, she also performed with the Capella Reial de Catalunya, singing in the concert dedicated to M.A. Charpentier at Versailles, which was recorded by MEZZO, as well as appearing in &Membra Jesu& by Buxtehude in Graz (Austria) and in The Mass in B Minor by J.S. Bach.
 
Arianna Savall Figueras has performed in Europe, Scandinavia, the United States, South America, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Israel.Her passion for early music and for improvisation has led her to the other extreme: contemporary music, in which she has begun working closely with the Swiss composer Conrad Steinmann on reconstructed ancient Greek music and the poems of Sappho. The outcome of that work is an album that was warmly welcomed by the critics: &Melpomen& (HARMONIA MUNDI).Rolf Lislevand's latest recording is a highly experimental venture: &Nuove musiche& (ECM 2006), on which Arianna Savall Figueras featured as a singer and harpist.
 
In June 2006 she performed as a singer in the work for soprano and nine modern instruments by Estonian composer Helena Tulve (1972) &Lijnen& in Tallin, which was also recorded by ECM with the group Nyyd Ensemble, conducted by Olari Elts, with whom she also performed at the Rennes Opera, singing Quatre Instants by K. Saariaho. She has undertaken several projects with Helena Tulve which premiered at the Monaco Opera: Equinoxe de l'Ame and Arboles lloran por lluvia with Vox Clamantis. In 2008 she performed in Carmina Burana by C. Orff, conducted by Manel Valdivieso, and sang L'abbé Agathon by Arvo Part with the Amsterdam Cello Octet.
 
All her explorations as a singer and harpist have been brought together in her first solo album, &Bella Terra& (ALIA VOX), in which she performs her own compositions. She has also performed in many festivals with her group, including the world music festival music &Sfinks& (Belgium, 2004) and &Stimmenfestspiele& (Switzerland, 2005). Singing while accompanying oneself on the harp is an age-old tradition that Arianna Savall Figueras hopes to bring back through ancient music and new musical creations.In 2006-2007 she took a postgraduate course at ESMUC (Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona) on the Spanish baroque harp, with Andrew Lawrence-King.
 
With her companion, Petter Udland Johansen, in 2009 she created the group Hirundo Maris, specialising in ancient music as well as writing their own work. Their creative core comes from Mediterranean and Nordic music, the fruit of their extensive work together, and like a migratory bird they rediscover the paths of the sea and music that have united Scandinavia with the Iberian peninsula since time immemorial.
 
The end of 2009 will see the publication of two new albums, with Alia Vox and Alpha.