Ariel Abramovich

Ariel Abramovich Ariel Abramovich is exclusively dedicated to renaissance music for lute and vihuela. He is one of the youngest perfomers of this repertoire and, thanks to his committment to it, has achieved wide acclaim in the early music field. Ariel was born in Buenos Aires in 1976, and from his early years was interested in rock, jazz and Latin American music. He began studying guitar with Norberto Pedreira and Enrique Sinesi while exploring other languages with musicians such as Hugo Romero and other important figures of Argentinian music. He went on to study classical guitar with José Luis Merlín and Miguel de Olaso, and simultaneously attended courses and seminars with different artists, including Miguel Ángel Girollet. It was in this formative period that he was dazzled by a fantasia by Luis de Narvaez, which was to determine his immediate, absolute and exclusive dedication to the XVIth century repertoire for lute and vihuela. He thus began studying these instruments with Dolores Costoyas and Eduardo Egüez and took part in courses for lute with Paul O'Dette, Hopkinson Smith and specialised courses with Pedro Memelsdorff. From 1996 to 1999 as an internal student, he attended the Schola Cantorum Basilensis, prestigious institution for the research and performance of early music. There he studied with Hopkinson Smith, considered to be one of the greatest lutenists in the world. During this period he also took part in courses with artists such as Anthony Rooley, Crawford Young and Dominique Vellard. He currently studies with Eugène Ferré, and is open to learning from those willing to share their own knowledge, in order to move closer towards his ideals. In the professional field he is dedicated almost exclusively to his solo career and to the group El Cortesano, performing regularly both in Argentina and Europe. He has collaborated in recordings with La Compañía del Tempranillo (Veneno de los Sentidos, 1999) and in the well-known Brazilian popular musician Marcelo Delacroix's first album (2000). His latest recording, made for the record company Arcana with El Cortesano, is totally dedicated to the Castillian vihuelist Estevan Daça. Ariel Abramovich is, in short, one of the most outstanding lutenists of his generation and one of the few specialised in such a specific repertoire as that for lute and vihuela from 1507 to 1630.