After studying guitar in her home city of Graz, Christina Pluhar graduated in lute with Toyohiko Sato at the Hague Conservatoire. She was awarded with the 'Diplme Suprieur 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 1stPrize in the International Old Music Competition of Malm with the ensemble La Fenice. She has lived in Paris since 1992, where she performs as a soloist and continuo player in prestigious festivals with famous groups such as La Fenice, Concerto Soave, Accordone, Elyma, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ricercar, Akademia, La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Concerto Kln, and in ensembles directed by Ren Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, Alessandro di Marchi. Her repertoire includes solo and continuo works from the 16th to 18th centuries for Renaissance lute, Baroque guitar, archlute, theorbo and Baroque harp. Since 1993 she has given master classes at Graz University, as well as providing baroque harp classes at the Conservatoire of The Hague from 1999. In 2000 she founded the Arpeggiata ensemble. For ten years Christina and her Ensemble have been recording albums asTeatro damoreandMusic for a Whileand playing all over Europe. She devotes a lot of time to the Ensemble LArpeggiata, as she is not only conductor and musician on stage, but she builds the programs herself, and spends a lot of time doing research and the necessary preliminary work for LArpeggiatas concerts and CDs. In 2010, she celebrated the 10th birthday of the Ensemble she created with numerous concerts in France and Europe.
