Stephen grew up playing the violin and has been working with instruments professionally for sixteen years. He trained at the world-renowned Newark School of Violin Making in England and then worked for P. & H. Perret Ltd in Katonah, NY for several years. He spent three years working with musicians in San Francisco and the Bay Area before settling in Toronto, Canada in January 2008.
Stephen is one of a handful of Canadian members of The American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers and currently the only one in the Greater Toronto Area. From the AFVBM website,