Author’s violins
The core idea of this project is that our violins are created to make music, then become art and finally return to making music.
At the heart of “Violino d’autore” are th
SANDRO ASINARI
Sandro Asinari was born in the province of Cremona in 1969. At the age of 14 he enrolled in the International School of Violin Making in Cremona, attracted as he was by music and musica
Igor Moroder
Son of an artistic family and direct descendant of the famous painter Josef Moroder Lusenberg (Ortisei 1846-1939), he was born in Bolzano in 1961 and grew up in Ortisei in Val Gardena and
MATTIA RIVA VIOLIN MAKER
I was born in Varese on 4th December 1972.
After receiving my diploma at the Arts High School in Varese, I attended the International Violin Making School in Milan and I achie
I make instruments primarily to order and building on commission by musicians is the aspect of my profession I find most satisfying. I enjoy violin making specially when I have the opportunity to work
ERICH PERROTTA BOW MAKER
First time I met the Bowmaking in 1997 when, already passionate about Luthery since several years, Master Claudio Righetti introduced us in his workshop in Verona.
Since that
FAR EAST VIOLINS/FAR EAST TRADE CONSULTANTS
The reasons why we have chosen to represent in Europe the workshop with which we have been collaborating now for ten years are numerous:
their accurate wood
A Material Engineer since 2001, in the same year I graduated as an “Operator for Violin Making” in Cremona. I then began my training in the restoration and the construction of classical and Baroqu
MARCO BRUNELLI
Born in the USA in 1972, grown up in a small town close to Lecco, he began to enjoy woodworking and woodcarving during his college years, and since then he never stopped his love for wo
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
For 40 years now, I have been dedicating myself to this wonderful world of violin making, graduating in Cremona in 1985 and since then attending Ateliers and well-known Masters – Italian and for
WALTER BARBIERO ARCHETTAIO
I graduated in viola at the Conservatory ” A. Steffani ” of Castelfranco Veneto with Maestro Luca Volpato , and the ” Ecole Nationale de Musique et de Dans
