Born in Tagawa-machi, Fuwa-gun, Gifu Prefecture, 1979

1997 After graduating from high school,

In 1998 he studied violin production and classical guitar production at Leeds College of Music

In 2000 Newark Violin Making School further explores the violin

After graduating from the same school in 2003, studied under Mr. Neil Kristóf Értz

Opened the workshop at Hellifield in North Yorkshire region in 2005 and devoted to production activities

2007 Collaboration with Reuning & Son of Boston, USA and Jeffery Holmes Fine Violins of Ann Arbor started

2008 Introduced as an internationally-acclaimed violin magazine “The Strad” as an innovator

Invited as a chief of studio to Pro Arte, Antwerp ‘s string instrument specialist in Belgium, engaged in repair, restoration and adjustment

Returned to Japan in 2009. Hold Atelier Kimura at Togari Town, Gifu Prefecture

Started serializing the column ” Anecdotes of famous instruments you know as you do not know ” at the 2010 string magazine “String” . A total of 25 times serialized until the fall of 2012

1178-1 Tarui-cho. Fuwa-gun, GIFU, 503-2121. Japan

Contact Tetsuya Kimura
Tel/fax +81 584 47 9748