FRANCESCO TARCHI
Francesco Tarchi was born in Florence in 1968.
In 1990 graduated in violin from the Conservatorio “Cherubini ” of Florence, he then continued his studies in Geneva and Bie
Gaspar Borchardt, master craftsman, builds violins in Cremona,
as a luthier Antonio Stradivari, artisan manufacturer of musical instruments
to ropes as violins, violas and cellos.
I was born in Genoa on February 3, 1966, my professional development has had various training locations in Europe and the world – with a background of conservative wood restoration – and f
Pius Sbrighi works in Rimini, where he was born in 1957. The only pupil of Mario Capicchioni teacher, began his violin maker in 1978, after attending the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro.
In 1984 he wor
He completed his Performer’s Diploma in cello at the Music Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Turin, Italy, under the guidance of Antonio Mosca. Consequently he attended further studies with A
“The real challenge in making musical instruments, lies in recreating the right chemistry between artisanal quality, aesthetic and sound, which, then, is the lesson of Stradivarius. It ‘wa
I have been working as a violin and bow maker for the last twenty years, applying all my intellectual and manual skills to the creation of instruments that can best satisfy all the requirements of str
Mathijs Adriaan Heyligers, born in Holland, moved to Italy in 1975 after his high school diploma. His study of violin making began at the International School of Violin Making of Cremona under the gui
GEIGENBAU CREMONA VIOLINS
Katharina Abbuhl (1968-,Bern,Switzerland) is the founder of Cremona violins, a famed violin making workshop in the center of Cremona. She graduated from the international vio
I was fortunate enough to learn the art of violin making through two parallel paths; the workshop and the school.
Over the last three years I have attended the Violin Making School of Parma, led by Re
ARWED HARMS has been making Violins,violas, and cellos for twenty years, Initially in cremona and for six years now in Fivizzano,Tuscany. In the roughly one hundred instruments that he has build, ther
