Through studying the violin at the encounter with Master Luthier Otello Bignami, director of the School of Violin Making Artistic Bolognese, which Bruno Stefanini attended from 1979 to 1983 when it ob
Boris Sverdlik, has many years of experience as one of the world’s most gifted and accomplished restorers of valuable Old String Instruments. He has studied and brought to life, sometimes
CARLO DORIA LIUTAIO
Member of :
Violin Society of America
Catgut Acoustical Society
Guild of American Luthiers
Association of Stringed Instruments Artisans
Guilde Francaise des Luthiers
FERNANDO SALVATORE LIMA
Fernando Salvatore Lima was born in Santa Maria da Feira in Portugal. As a young man he showed a special gift for music and art in general and his manual skill was already clea
Mathias Menanteau was born in Vendée on July 29, 1977. The intense passion for music and woodworking as well as the study of the classical guitar will lead him to create his first instruments.
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MAURIZIO TADIOLI
Born in Cremona on September 16, 1967, Maurizio Tadioli began studying the art of violin making as a child guided by his grandfather Carlo Pizzamiglio, a self taught luthier. Also, st
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
MICHEL EGGIMANN VIOLIN MAKER
In 1982, he made his first violin in the workshop of Philippe Girardin in Neuchatel.
As well as his violin studies, he obtained his luthier’s diploma from the internatio
LUCCHICREMONA SAS
Try to imagine tortoises and lizards, horses and elephants in the company
of prehistoric animals like the mammoth. Then think of precious materials
like ivory, mother of pearl and si
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
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
