Ensemble Hirundo Maris
In 2009 Arianna Savall and Petter Udland Johansen founded the group Hirundo Maris, specializing in early music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, as well as their own compositions and early fusion. Their creative core is Mediterranean and Nordic music, the fruit of their extensive musical partnership. Just like the migratory swallow, which lends its name to the ensemble, they retrace the routes across seas and music that have linked Scandinavia with the Iberian Peninsula since time immemorial.
Hirundo Maris regularly appears at numerous festivals around Europe, such as the Stanser Musiktage (Switzerland), Cologne's Fest für Alte Musik, the Jazz in Church Festival in Bucharest (Romania), the Menuhin Festival Gstaad (Switzerland), the Bachwochen Thun (Switzerland), the Styriarte Festival (Austria), the Festival de Dinan (Brittany), the Arp Sanati Dergi Festival in Istanbul (Turkey), the Festival de Fontfroide and Philippe Maillard Productions (Paris), and the Hong Kong Arts Festival, among others.
Their first CD, Chants du Sud et du Nord, produced by the renowned label ECM, was followed by other recordings such as Vox Cosmica, Il Viaggio d'Amore, and the Christmas CD Silent Night.
Arianna Savall, soprano, triple harp, and direction
Petter Udland Johansen, tenor, violin, cittern, and Hardanger fiddle
Tanja Skok, dance and castanets
Michał Nagy, guitar
Sveinung Lilleheier, dobro d'amore
Miquel Ángel Cordero, violone
©Photo: Stephan Röhl