Christina Pluhar

Christina Pluhar born 1965 in Graz (Styria) Austria, is an Austrian musician, harpist, lutenist and theorbo player. A specialist in early music, she lives in Paris, where she founded L'Arpeggiata in 2000. Biography : After studying at the University of Graz, Christina Pluhar discovers her deep affinity for Baroque and Renaissance music. She devotes herself to the lute, the theorbo, the baroque guitar and their repertoires, which she studied with the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Hopkinson Smith. She studied the baroque harp with Mara Galassi at the "Scuola Civica di Milano" and followed masterclasses with Paul O'Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King and Jesper Bøje Christensen. In 1992, she won first prize at the International Early Music Competition in Malmö with La Fenice ensemble. She has been living in Paris since 1992 and regularly performs as a soloist and continuist in the most prestigious festivals and theaters. His repertoire includes solo music for Renaissance and Baroque lute, baroque guitar, archiluth, theorbo and baroque harp from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She has appeared in various ensembles including La Fenice (Jean Tubéry), Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), Il Giardino Armonico, Concerto Soave (Maria Cristina Kiehr), Accordone (Marco Beasley), (Ensemble Elyma) (Gabriel Garrido), The Musicians of the Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), The Great Stable and the House of the King (Jean-Claude Malgoire), Cantus Cölln (Konrad Junghänel). As a continuuit, she was asked by many orchestras under the direction of René Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, Alessandro di Marchi, Marc Minkowski, Gabriel Garrido. Since 2001 she has been assistant to Ivor Bolton at the Staatsoper Munich. In 2000, Christina Pluhar founded the ensemble L'Arpeggiata, with which she recorded a series of records acclaimed by the press: 10 of Repertoire, Diapason d'Or, Prix Exellentia, CD of the week BBC and France Musique .... In 2007, she is invited to conduct as guest conductor the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Baroque Orchestra of the European Union (for a European tour) and the Divino Sospiro Orchestra in Portugal. This last set invites him again in 2009. In addition to her activities as a conductor and soloist, Christina Pluhar has been a baroque harp teacher in her class at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague since 1999 and gives masterclasses at the University of Graz.