FRANCESCO PIASENTINI, PADOVA (ITALY) Francesco Piasentini began his journey as a luthier in Cremona. There he earned a diploma in violin making from the A. Stradivari Institute in 2001. That same year, he also graduated from the University of Padua with a degree in Materials Engineering, presenting a thesis on[…]
Carlo Chiesa, from Milan, builds and restores modern and baroque string instruments (violins, violas, and cellos, as well as viols) in collaboration with his son Tommaso. He pays particular attention to the fine-tuning and optimization of existing instruments, especially historical ones, working closely with musicians—famous and not—in the pursuit of[…]
Alberto Giordano graduated from the International School of Violin Making in Cremona in 1984; attended master Sesto Rocchi in his villa-atelier in San Polo d’Enza and the workshop of Gregg Alf and Joseph Curtin in Cremona; settled in Genoa, his hometown, in 1987.A member of ALI – Gruppo liutai professionisti[…]
Giorgio Grisales was born in Colombia in 1963 and in 1982. He moved to Cremona to study the art of violin making that has always fascinated him.In 1988 he graduated as Master Luthier at the “International Violinmaking School” of Cremona and later attended a course organized by “Regione Lombardia”, at[…]
Marco Osio is an internationally renowned violin maker, born on 22 December 1976 in Manerbio, Italy. He began his training at the International Violinmaking School in Cremona in 1990, graduating in 1994 under the guidance of master Giorgio Scolari. During his training, he had the opportunity to work with master[…]
Milena Noventa was born in Brescia in 1982In 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[…]
Gino Sfarra makes violins, violas and cellos completely by hand according to the traditional Milanese school. He uses his own models and the varnish is classic traditional Italian oil varnish. On request he also makes copies, antiqued and baroque. He performs restorations and repairs as well as set up and[…]
Born in Incheon (South Korea) in 1990, Jung has graduated from a technological high school in 2008 and began to further cultivate his passion for classical music, especially for the violin. This period also saw the beginning of his strong interest in violin making, and his understanding that it would[…]
Michele Buccellè was born in Cremona on July 23, 1981. He studied at the International School of Violinmaking where he graduated in 2000 under the guidance of Masters Massimo Negroni and Wanna Zambelli. From 2001 to 2010 he worked in the workshop of Maestro Maurizio Tadioli where he perfected his[…]
Today bow-making is a concrete, present and distinguishable reality in the field of lutherie. Although bow and instrument are part of a single great artistic movement in the musical field, the distinction has become necessary in order to define the object that structures and generates[…]
