Arianna Savall
Like her father, gambist and ensemble director Jordi Savall, singer and harpist Arianna Savall has specialized in Renaissance music but has performed pieces from a wide range of eras and traditions. Savall is competent in a wide variety of styles and is fluent in at least five languages.
The daughter of Jordi Savall and his wife, soprano Montserrat Figueras, Arianna Savall i Figueras was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1972. She studied piano and harp at first; her harp teacher was Magdalena Barrera. Savall grew up partly in her parents' home region of Catalonia in Spain but also traveled extensively. She studied voice at the Terrassa Conservatory in Catalonia, finishing a voice degree there in 1996 and a harp degree in 2000. By that time, she had already become interested in early music, taking courses at the Toulouse Conservatory with lutenist Rolf Lislevand in 1992 (the previous year, he had been Jordi Savall's collaborator on the breakout soundtrack to the film Tous les matins du monde); she also took classes with Hopkinson Smith and Andrew Lawrence-King, and both her parents were major influences.
From 1996 to 2001, Savall studied early harp playing in her hometown at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. By the time she completed that program, she had made her operatic debut at the Theater Basel in an opera by the Classical-period composer Florian Leopold Gassmann. In 2002, Savall appeared in the lead role of Eurydice in a production of Monteverdi's Orfeo, directed by Jordi Savall at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, a major opera house. She made her recording debut the following year with the Ricercar Consort on the Mirare label, releasing the album Sopra la Rosa.
Critically acclaimed, the Orfeo production went on the road to theaters and festivals across Europe and built Savall's reputation as an artistic force independent of her famous family. She has sung the role of Casilla in the Handel pasticcio Arianna, appeared in a concert production of Purcell's The Fairy Queen with the Main Baroque Orchestra of Frankfurt, and has both sung and played harp in the Jordi Savall anthology program Sueños y Folias. She has performed as a harpist and singer on various albums, both with and without Jordi Savall and both on his Alia Vox label and elsewhere. Her 2003 release, Bella Terra, featuring her own compositions, sold an impressive 30,000 copies.
Since 2009, Savall has often performed and recorded with her partner, musician Petter Udland Johansen, in the group Hirundo Maris. In 2018, the pair appeared on Silent Night, a collection of early Christmas music released on the major Deutsche Harmonia Mundi label. Savall returned in 2021 with the harp album Le Labyrinthe d'Ariane on Alia Vox and with Hirundo Maris on the Fuga Libera album Poésie et musique. In 2023, she joined Johansen on the Carpe Diem label with the album El cant de la Sibil.la, Draumkvedent, featuring medieval oral-tradition works from Catalonia and Norway. Savall is on the faculty at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, teaching Baroque harp.
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El cant de la Sibil.la & Draumkvedet
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Classica - Pubblicato da Carpe Diem Records Berlin il 17 nov 2023
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Poésie et musique
Arianna Savall, Hirundo Maris, Petter Udland Johansen
Classica - Pubblicato da Fuga Libera il 15 ott 2021
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Silent Night - Early Christmas Music and Carols
Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen
Classica - Pubblicato da Deutsche Harmonia Mundi il 26 ott 2018
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Vox Cosmica
Hirundo Maris, Petter Udland Johansen, Arianna Savall
Generi vari - Pubblicato da Carpe Diem Records Berlin il 4 nov 2014
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Un camino de Santiago (Un chemin de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle)
Arianna Savall, La Fenice, Jean Tubéry
Classica - Pubblicato da Ricercar il 14 apr 2011
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The Wind Rose
Hirundo Maris, Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen
Generi vari - Pubblicato da Carpe Diem Records Berlin il 13 ott 2017
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Hirundo Maris - Chants du Sud et du Nord
Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen
Jazz - Pubblicato da ECM Records il 25 mag 2012
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Wayfaring Stranger
Petter Udland Johansen, Arianna Savall, Hirundo Maris
Folk - Pubblicato da Carpe Diem Records Berlin il 7 ott 2022
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Hirundo Maris (Chants du Sud et du Nord)
Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen
Jazz - Pubblicato da ECM Records il 25 mag 2012
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Du Temps & De L'Instant
Jordi Savall, Ferran Savall, Montserrat Figueras, Arianna Savall, Pedro Estevan
Classica - Pubblicato da Alia Vox il 1 gen 2005
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In the bleak midwinter - A musician's journey from Norway to Spain
Capella Antiqua Bambergensis, Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen
Generi vari - Pubblicato da CAB Records il 12 nov 2012
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NYYD Ensemble, Olari Elts, Arianna Savall, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Silesian String Quartet
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM New Series il 20 mag 2008
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El Cant de la Sibil.la de Barcelona: Hanc hom no·ych féu res tan secret ...
Generi vari - Pubblicato da Carpe Diem Records Berlin il 3 nov 2023
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