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 musical instruments.
Sun, sea, breeze. Conviviality, social relationships, warmth, folklore… This is the Neapolitan aura that I was leaving. Fog, plain, stuffiness. Privacy, closure, coldness sometimes… This is the Po
Everyone says they are the best, the best, etc. Instead of asking you to believe us, we turn the word to our customers. The following messages are among our normal correspondence and therefore the v
La liuteria artistica Formaggia costruisce strumenti musicali ad arco completamente a mano secondo la tradizione Cremonese dal 1979.
I violini realizzati sono il modello Stradivari 1689,il Guarneri d
In 1991, after a few years of training on my own, I was taken on by the well-know workshop of Carlson – Cacciatori – Neumann in Cremona where I completed my training in building and restor
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
Maestro Giovanni Lucchi, our father, has always put the search for high quality materials at the basis of the construction of his bows, and he taught us this. Our production is in fact appreciated a
The priceless art of a luthier
There can be no art without study and patience, that of learning a trade, each piece created is unique and conveys the spirit of the master luthier who shaped it follow
THE VILLA MAKING PHILOSOPHY
Marcello Villa was born in Monza in 1965. He lives and works in Cremona. He began studying the violin when he was twelve and later enrolled in the International School of V
ROSENBLUM MASTER VIOLIN MAKER
Beautifully crafted and acoustically excellent, Yael Rosenblum’s instruments are chosen to be played in all countries around the world by the best musicians. Among them
At the age of eight, Lorenzo Lazzarato began his studies with the violin and then went on to the double bass obtaining his diploma in 1993 at the “ G. Frescobaldi” Conservatory of Music in Ferrara
Daniele Scolari is a true Cremonese. He attended the Cremona International Violin Making School, where he was a pupil of Master Giobatta Morassi. He graduated in 1979, and since 1982 he has been worki