The ARPARLA ensemble, Davide Monti on violin and Maria Christina Cleary on harp, takes inspirationfrom a desire to speak through music - parla in Italian means ‘speak’. Using the soft and refined sonorities of theharp and the expressive range of colours of the violin, both Davide and Maria stay true to historical ways of  playing. The Monti and Cleary duo give concerts with energy and enthusiasm, receiving excellent reviews from allover the world, bringing a musical message that goes beyond language, culture, and social class. Their repertoire focuses on two specific musical periods in which their instruments perfectly express thesynthesis of the Baroque period (17th century), and the transition period between Classicism and Romanticism(end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century). Formed in 2005, Arparla has performed many concerts - not only in Italy, their inspiration and home, butaround the world. The duo’s first tour was in Japan, where they also gave master classes in Early Music andHistorical Performance Practice. Arparla has performed all over Europe including festivals like Aqua Music Amsterdam, Itinéraire BaroquePerigord, the Early Music Festival in Brugges, Rethymno Renaissance Festival, the International MozartFestival Rovereto, Mazovie Goes Baroque Warsaw and Muzyka w Raju Paradyz. They have also performed atthe Montreal Early Music Festival. They toured Australia and Singapore in 2011, including a performance at thelaunch of the Woodend Winter Arts Festival in Victoria. In 2009 they premiered Spohr's Double Concerto on original instruments.Arparla has also given series of concerts and lessons in Kampala, Uganda, to sustain the NGO COOPI,performing for the Italian and Irish Embassies, Makerere University, The International University of Kampala,and the Africa Institute of Music.Besides performing, Arparla has taught at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Guildhall School ofMusic in London, the Conservatories of Padova and Vicenza, NUS Singapore, RMIT and Monash UNI inMelbourne, the Griffith Conservatory in Brisbane, the Kraków Music Academy, the Conservatory in Vienna, andalso collaborated with the Menuhin Foundation MUS-E project. Arparla has recorded two duos CDs under the Stradivarius label. The first, So mach' die Augen zu is ofthe Chamber works and harp solos of Louis Spohr, the premiere recording of this composer using originalinstruments. Their second CD, Le Grazie del Violino, is a collection of Italian instrumental music of the 17thcentury including Marini, Pandolfi-Mealli, Selma, Uccellini, Frescobaldi, Merula and Fontana. This recording culminates many years of research into performance expressiveness, effects and musical rhetoric. These CDs has received rave reviews from international music journals.