L’Arpeggiata is a European early music group led by Christina Pluhar, and founded by her in 2000. The group has presented both traditional early music and also several collaged and themed performances and recordings. The group focuses on Italian, French and English music from the 17th century. In their music, they often use instrumental improvisations, in which they work together not only with baroque musicians, but also with jazz musicians.
The Arpeggiata brings together artists from various musical backgrounds, established on both sides of Europe and the world, around program-projects, skilfully concocted by Christina Pluhar according to her musicological research, her encounters, the curiosity that drives her and her immeasurable talent. The sound of the whole, which was formed around the plucked strings, is immediately identifiable.
Since its birth, L’Arpeggiata has had the vocation of exploring the rich music of the little-known repertoire of Roman, Neapolitan and Spanish composers of the first Baroque. The ensemble has given itself as guiding principles instrumental improvisation and research on the instrumentarium in the purest Baroque tradition, as well as the creation and staging of “event” shows. It thus promotes the meeting of music and singing with other baroque disciplines, inseparable in their time, such as dance and theater, and an openness to various musical genres, such as jazz and traditional music.
True invitations to dream, the programs of the Arpeggiata reconnect with the surprise, the unexpected, and return to the baroque its original meaning: an irregularly shaped pearl (16th century), an astonishing element (18th century). The works of the Baroque period offer the Arpeggiata a setting of freedom where artists from here and elsewhere flourish, where genres and traditions mingle, making each concert a unique encounter.
The Arpeggiata regularly collaborates with outstanding soloists from both classical baroque music (Philippe Jaroussky, Nuria Rial, Raquel Andueza, Luciana Mancini, Véronique Gens, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Cyril Auvity, Emiliano Gonzales-Toro, Dominique Visse, João Fernandes…) as traditional music (Lucilla Galeazzi, Vincenzo Capezzuto, Ensemble ‘Barbara Furtuna’, Misia…) or other genres, such as jazz or flamenco (Gianluigi Trovesi, Pepe Habichuela), and has been performing since its creation within the biggest festivals and most prestigious theatres of Europe.
