Montserrat Figueras García Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Montserrat Figueras i García (Catalan: [muns??rat fi??e??s i ??r?si.?]; 1942–2011) was a Catalan soprano who specialized in early music.Figueras was born 15 March 1942 in Barcelona, Spain. After initially training as an actress, in 1966 she began studying early singing techniques together with her sister Pilar Figueras and developed an approach and technique for singing early music which combined historical fidelity with vitality.In 1974 she and Jordi Savall, her husband since 1968, Lorenzo Alpert and Hopkinson Smith formed Hespèrion XX, an early music ensemble. Figueras and her husband were members of a newer version of that ensemble, Hespèrion XXI. They also founded the groups La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations.Figueras also performed and recorded regularly as a solo artist. She and her husband performed with their children: daughter Arianna and son Ferran.She died on 23 November 2011 in Cerdanyola del Vallès, surrounded by her family, after a long battle with cancer. The funeral was held at the Monastery of Pedralbes in Barcelona.
She was awarded the Cross of St. Jordi, the highest civil distinction given by the Catalonian government, in 2011.
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She was awarded the Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2003 from the French Government for her services to music.
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They returned to Spain in the late 1980s where they founded La Capella Reial De Catalunya, a vocal ensemble, and Le Concert Des Nations, an orchestra that uses instruments from the 17th century.
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She studied at the Music Academy and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis both in Basel, Switzerland where they lived from 1968 until the late 1980s. In 1974, she and her husband along with Lorenzo Alpert and Hopkinson Smith formed Hesperion XX renamed Hesperion XXI in 2000 to emphasize music of 16th and 17th century Spain.
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She studied music at a local chorus, Aleluya, in Barcelona, Spain and performed with Enric Gispert's early music ensemble., Arts Musicae De Barcelona.
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Soprano who specialized in performing pre-Baroque era music.
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