Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall was born in Igualada, Catalonia, Spain on August 1st, 1941 and is the Composer. At the age of 83, Jordi Savall biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jordi Savall i Bernadet (born August 1, 1941) is a Catalan-Spanish conductor and violist.
He has been one of the leading figures in Western early music since the 1970s, and has been instrumental in popularizing the viol family of instruments (particularly the viola da gamba) in modern performance and recording.
Although he has rarely ventured into the Classical and even Romantic periods, his characteristic repertoire includes medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music.
Musical education
He began singing in his native Irma at the age of six and died in the school choir. He studied at the University of Music in Barcelona, Spain, from 1959 to 1965, and then joined Enric Gispert as a professor of viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland (1968–70).
Honours and awards
- 2000 – Premi d'Honor Lluís Carulla for service to Catalan culture or for scientific, cultural or civic works in the Catalan language
- 2006 – Honorary doctorate from the University of Barcelona
- 2008 – Appointed European Union ambassador for intercultural dialogue
- 2008 – Savall and his wife, Montserrat Figueras, were named "Artists for Peace" by UNESCO.
- 2009 – Handel Prize from the city of Halle, Germany
- 2009 – National Music Prize from the National Council of Music and Arts of Catalonia
- 2010 – Praetorius Musikpreis Niedersachsen
- 2010 – MIDEM Classical Award for his album "Jerusalem – la ville des deux Paix: La paix céleste et la paix terrestre"
- 2011 – Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance for Dinastia Borja. Església i poder al Renaixement
- 2012 – Léonie Sonning Music Prize
- 2013 – Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (France)
- 2013 – Honorary doctorate from the University of Basel
- 2014 – Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia
- In 2014 he refused the Premio Nacional de Música awarded by the Spanish government, in protest at the government's artistic policies, accusing them of "grave incompetence" and "dramatic disinterest".
- 2016 – Honorary doctorate from Utrecht University
- 2022 - Honorary membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society