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Christina Pluhar This artist fell in love with Renaissance and
Baroque music while studying at the university in
her hometown of Graz. Passion drove her to study
lute performance at the Royal Conservatory of
The Hague and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
with Hopkinson Smith, as well as Baroque harp
performance at the Scuola Civica di Milano with
Mary Galassi. Pluhar honed her skills studying
with Paul O’Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King and
Jesper Christensen. Since 1993, she has led a master
class at her alma mater in Graz; and since 1999,
she has taught Baroque harp performance at the
Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1992, with the
ensemble La Fenice, the artist won 1 st prize at the
international early music competition in Malmö
and took up permanent residence in Paris. In her
repertoire are works from the 16 th –18 th centuries,
composed for various types of lutes, Baroque guitar,
theorbo and Baroque harp. She has performed with
the accompaniment of the following ensembles:
Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall), Il Giardino Armonico,
Concerto Soave (Maria Cristina Kiehr), Accordone
(Marco Beasley), Elyma (Gabriel Garrido), Les
Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Ricercar
Consort (Philippe Pierlot), La Grande Ecurie
et la Chambre du Roi (Jean-Claude Malgoire),
Cantus Cölln (Konrad Junghänel), as well as under
the direction of René Jacobs, Ivor Bolton et al.
Christina Pluhar is the founder of L’Arpeggiata, an
ensemble which she has led for 10 years; she selects
its repertoire based on her own research of early
music. With her ensemble, she has made many
recordings, among them the albums La Tarantella,
All’Improvviso, Los Impossibles and Teatro d’amore,
which enjoy considerable recognition from music
critics (Diapason d’Or, Prix Excellentia).
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