A native of Valencia, Mariví Blasco studied piano, oboe and singing at the city’s Conservatorio José Iturbi, while also earning a degree in Psychology from the University of Valencia. She has appeared as a soloist with major ensembles, including Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi), L’Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), B’Rock (Frank Agsteribbe), La Fenice (Jean Tubéry), Ensemble ELYMA (Gabriel Garrido), El Concierto Español (Emilio Moreno), Banda Municipal de Sevilla, Orquesta Camerata XXl, Ensemble Pian&Forte, Hippocampus, Forma Antiqva, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Speculum, Capella de Ministrers, Vespres d´Arnadi and Accademia del Piacere, of which she is a founding member with Fahmi Alqhai.
She also works regularly with performers of the calibre of Jory Vinikour (harpsichord), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Juan Carlos de Mulder (lute and vihuela) and Juan Carlos Rivera (baroque guitar). With them she has performed at venues as important as the Teatro Real and the Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Salle Gaveau (Paris), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), the Teatro de la Maestranza and the Teatro Lope de Vega (Seville), the Teatro Arriaga (Bilbao), the Kursaal (Donostia), the Petit Palau (Barcelona), the Teatro Villamarta (Jerez), the Teatro dei Rozzi (Siena), the Teatro Metropolitano (Medellín), the Instituto Cervantes (Tokyo), the Castello Sforzesco (Milan), the Teatro Real Coliseo (San Lorenzo de El Escorial), and the Palau de les Arts and the Palau de la Música (Valencia). In opera she made her debut at the Teatro Arenal in Madrid as Despina in W.A. Mozart’s Così fan tutte. She has sung the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute with the Opera Duende company (directed by Jeanne Henny). She also took part in the Teatro Real production of F. Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, conducted by Jesús López Cobos. Highlights of her discography include her collaborations with Concerto di Trombe (with Gabriele Cassone and Enrico Onofri); the oratorio La forza del Divino Amore by Bernardo Gaffi with Ensemble Pian&Forte, in the leading role of Saint Teresa of Jesus; Insólito estupor, with Forma Antiqva; Artaserse, an opera by Terradellas in which she sings the role of Megabise, with the Real Compañía de Ópera de Cámara; Le Lacrime di Eros, with Accademia del Piacere, which won the Prelude Classical Music Award 2009 for best international recording in the Early Baroque category; and Songs of irrelevance and passion, with music by Frescobaldi and John Cage, with Frank Agsteribbe. Her latest albums are A che bellezza, with Juan Carlos Rivera, which won the Melómano de Oro award, and Geistliche Lieder by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, with Yago Mahúgo, which won the R de Ritmo and Scherzo’s “Disco Excepcional”. She is musical director of La Crítica del Amor, the first large-scale Baroque musical, directed by Antonio Castillo Algarra, and teaches Baroque singing at For the fun of it (Madrid).