Born in Basle into a family of Catalan musicians, Arianna Savall Figueras began her classical harp studies with M. Barrera and her vocal studies with M.D. Aldeaat the conservatory in Terrassa. She specialised in historical harp with H. Rosenzweigand singing with K. Widmerin the area of early music at the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis. As a soloist, she has performed with various ensembles, such as Hesperion XXI, Rolf Lislevand Ensemble, La Fenice, Melpomen Ensemble, Ricercar Consort, Mala Punica, Vox Clamantis, Il Desiderio, Ensemble Cello Octet Amsterdam, Capella Antiqua Bambergensis, Le Baroque Nomade, Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt, etc., and collaborated with conductors including her parents, JeanTubery, Olari Elts, Jaan-Eik Tulve, Tonu Kaljuste, Manel Valdivieso, Pascal Crittin, Andrew Lawrence-Kingand others.

Arianna Savall Figueras has performed in Europe, Scandinavia, the United States, South America, Australia, Japan, China, New Zealand, Turkey and Israel. She has also made numerous recordings of concerts and opera productions, in particular for Alia Vox, ECM, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi, Aeolus and CAB Records, many of which have won awards. She is known in the international press as “the Harp Fairy.” Arianna Savall Figueras’s passion for early music and improvisation has also taken her the opposite extreme of contemporary music, an area in which she works intensively with Swiss composer Conrad Steinmann and Estonian composers Helena Tulve and Arvo Pärt.

Her careers as a singer and harpist blend together in her solo records “Bella Terra” and “Peiwoh”(ALIA VOX), in which she performs her own compositions, as well as in her appearances with her ensemble at numerous festivals.