L’Arpeggiata

The multi-award-winning ensemble L’Arpeggiata was founded in 2000 by Christina Pluhar. The ensemble, which is made up of musicians from diverse backgrounds, captivates audiences and critics worldwide with its unconventional and rousing performances. Named after the toccata of the same name by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, L’Arpeggiata specializes in music of the 17th century.

The ensemble has given numerous concert tours, travelling throughout Europe, and to Australia, South America, Japan, China, New Zealand and the USA. It has performed at international festivals such as the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, the Festival de Saint-Denis, the International Handel Festival in Halle, the Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci, the Ludwigsburg Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space. The ensemble also performs regularly at renowned concert halls, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Wigmore Hall, the Tonhalle in Zurich and the Alte Oper Frankfurt. In 2012 it became the first early music ensemble to hold a residency at Carnegie Hall in New York.

L’Arpeggiata’s extensive discography has won various awards, including the Cannes Classical Award, the Diapason d’Or and the Edison Classical Award as well as the ECHO Klassik in 2009 for Monteverdi: Teatro d’Amore, in 2010 for Via Crucis and in 2011 for Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine. The ensemble’s 2017 album Händel Goes Wild with the countertenor Valer Sabadus won an OPUS Klassik award in 2018.

Other recordings include the CD Los Pájaros Perdidos: The South American Project (2012) featuring traditional Latin American music, Mediterraneo with the Fado singer Mísia (2013), Music for a While — Improvisations on Purcell (2014), and also Passacalle de la Follie (2023) with Philippe Jaroussky, Francesco Cavalli — L’Amore innamorato (2015) and Orfeo Chamán (2016), an opera composed and arranged by Christina Pluhar. Wonder Women (2024) honours 17th-century female composers, and Orfeo son io (2025) with Rolando Villazón was inspired by Greek mythology. In 2021 L’Arpeggiata released the album Alla Napoletana with Céline Scheen, Luciana Mancini and Vincenzo Capezzuto; in April 2026 these soloists collaborated with the ensemble again on its most recent recording, La Torre del Oro.