Trained at the school of Cremona by the luthiers Massimo Neggroni and Stefano Conia, Frédéric Desimpel continued his career and his training with Pascal Gilis in Brussels with whom he founded the Meteny Quartet Instrument workshop in 1994, which he left in 2004.

On the strength of this experience, he opened his workshop in 2006: violin-making workshop La Cigale. Now installed at the corner of rue de l’hospice communal and avenue de la Fauconnerie still in Watermael Boitsfort, a new story has begun…