Davide Monti and Maria Christina Cleary, take their inspiration from a desire to communicate through music - parla in Italian means ‘speak’ - using the soft and refined sonorities of the harp and the expressive range of colours of the violin. Their repertoire focuses on two specific musical periods in which their instruments perfectly express the synthesis of the Baroque period and the transition period between classicism and romanticism (17th-19th centuries). They study and research Historical Informed Practices across many disciplines including music improvisation, fencing, Theatre, Rhetoric, dance and horsemanship. With this inter-disciplinary knowledge, Arparla’s performances are unique experiences, playing music from earlier epochs yet being firmly founded in today’s society. Besides performing, Arparla is dedicated to education; teaching and lecturing together at Hochschule München, Conservatoire royale de Liège, NUS Singapore, RMIT Melbourne, Early Music Studio Melbourne, Makerere University Uganda, The International University of Kampala, and the Africa Institute of Music. They have sustained the ONG COOPI and collaborated with the Menuhin Foundation MUS-E project. Since 2013 they have founded the International School of Improvisation, Helicona Project. The Helicona method is supported by strategies taken from other disciplines including Dancing, Theatre, Fencing and Horse-riding. They are valuable resources which can be adopted in any communication strategies.