Arianna Savall

Born: 1972
Died:
Education: self-taught
Career: composer

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.