Shantala Shivalingappa was bornin Madras, India, brought up in Paris, Shantala is the child of east and west. She grew up in a world filled with dance and music, initiated at a tender age by her mother, dancer Savitry Nair. Deeply moved and inspired by Master Vempati Chinna Satyam’s pure and graceful style, Shantala dedicated herself to Kuchipudi, and received an intense and rigorous training from her master. Driven by a deep desire to bring Kuchipudi to the western audience, she has performed in important festivals and theatresl. She worked with some of the greatest artists of our times: Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, Pina Bausch, Amagatsu.

Ferran Savall since early childhood, as the son of Montserrat Figueras and Jordi Savall, Ferran Savall has been in everyday contact with the musical world. He studied guitar and later specialised in early instruments at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya with Xavier Díaz- Latorre, at Trossingen (Germany) with Rolf Lislevand (theorbo), and on various occasions with Andrew Lawrence-King in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Catalonia). Ferran Savall is a self-taught singer. He has explored world music: from Pakistan, India and Armenia among others, but always shunning any specialisation of style, searching for technical morsels to incorporate into his improvisations.