Sepharad

Ana Isabel Arnaz - vocal
Amaya Oliver - lute

Ana Isabel Arnaz commenced her studies at the Miguel Fleta Music School in Huescas. At eleven she started taking singing lessons, first with Mayi Amieva and later with Conrado Beltrani. She then continued her studies at the Conservatorio Superior del Lyceo's in Barcelona where she was awarded a grant for studying romantic opera. In 1997 she became a student at the department of renaissance and baroque music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis where she studies under Richard Levitt. She has been soloist with groups like Coral Oscense, Orquestra Concerto and Coro de Camera del Palau de la Musica in Barcelona.

Amaya Oliver studied with José Louis Rodrigo in Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid and got a diploma as a guitarist in 1992. She has participated in master classes with David Russell, Leo Brouwer, José Miguel Moreno and Hopkinson Smith. She has performed with the guitar duo Crescendo, the guitar and flute duo Syrinx and such early music consorts as Orphenica Lyra and Armes Amour. She has also contributed to music journals like Ritmo and Scherzo and the recording company Glossa. She studies medieval lute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Crawford Young and sarod and Indian music with Ken Zuckerman.