MILENA NOVENTA, PARMA (ITALY)

Milena Noventa was born in Brescia in 1982
In 2008 she enrolled at the International School of Violinmaking in Parma, beginning her training under the guidance of Maestro Renato Scrollavezza.

In 2011 she joined the Scrollavezza and Zanrè studio as an assistant where she remained for the next four years. In addition to gaining further experience, She has the opportunity to study numerous fine instruments.

In 2014 She won the first and second prize in the international violin-making competition ‘Violin: Soul and Shape’ in Moscow in the category ‘Imitation of Old Instruments’.

She deepened his studies by attending master classes and restoration courses held by Hans Nebel, Sharon Que, Lorenzo Frignani and Filippo Fasser.

In 2018, she opened her first workshop in Reggio Emilia and in 2020 she moved to Parma, opening a workshop shared with the masters Elisa Scrollavezza and Andrea Zanrè, where she welcomes musicians and also offers a small resale of strings and accessories.

She devotes herself mainly to construction, to which she adds the maintenance of instruments and bows, cracking and some minor restoration.

Her instruments are mainly based on the Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy traditions, with an eye to the contemporary and exercising the expressive freedom imprinted by the first master.

www.milenanoventa.it