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Christina Pluhar

Christina Pluhar

Born: 1965, Graz, Austria

Nationality: Austrian

After studying guitar in her home city of Graz, she graduated in lute with Toyohiko Sato at the Hague Conservatoire. She was awarded the 'Diplôme Supérieur de Perfectionnement' at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Hopkinson Smith. Then she studied with Mara Galassi at the Scuola Civica di Milano.

In 1992 she won the 1st Prize in the International Old Music Competition of Malmö with the ensemble La Fenice. She founded the Arpeggiata ensemble with which she has made a series of CDs for the Alpha company.

Further Reading: Christina Pluhar

  • Terra Mater from Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata

    31st Jan 2025by Katherine Cooper

    The experimental early music ensemble is joined by Swedish mezzo (and climate-change activist) Malena Ernman for an eclectic programme celebrating Mother Earth, taking in pictorial Baroque sonatas, English folksongs and dances, early Italian opera and a soupçon of jazz...

  • Christina Pluhar on Terra Mater

    23rd Jan 2025by Katherine Cooper

    The director of L'Arpeggiata discusses the early music ensemble's 25th-birthday plans and their new album with Swedish mezzo Malena Ernman (released on Erato next Friday) which celebrates the natural world.

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