Like her father, gambist and ensemble director Jordi Savall, singer and harpist Arianna Savall has specialized in Renaissance music but has performed pieces from a wide range of eras and traditions. Savall is competent in a wide variety of styles and is fluent in at least five languages.
The daughter of Jordi Savall and his wife, soprano Montserrat Figueras, Arianna Savall i Figueras was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1972. She studied piano and harp at first; her harp teacher was Magdalena Barrera. Savall grew up partly in her parents' home region of Catalonia in Spain but a...