Born in Mannheim in 1963, Stefanie Bille spent her youth and school years in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. After studying double bass for a semester at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts, she trained in violin making at the State Vocational Violin Making School in Mittenwald from 1983 to[…]
Stepan Soultanian was born in Cyprus in 1965 but moved to London at an early age. He started playing the violin at seven years old and was fifteen when he met a local violin repairer. The sight of all the tools and the smell in the workshop fascinated him so[…]
Born in Cremona on November 3rd 1964.He studied at the International School “A. Stradivari” in Cremona, obtaining the Master Luthier diploma in 1983 under the guidance of maestros Giorgio Scolari and Stefano Conia, he then studied at the workshop of M°Scolari where he trained his stylistic personality. At the same[…]
Born in Sondrio on February 5th, 1970 in a family of musicians, he began studying the violin at the age of eight. Immediately after graduating from middle school, charmed by the construction of the violin, he enrolled at the International School of Violinmaking in Cremona: he attended the four-year course[…]
In 2001 Luca left the famous Prosecco Hills of Valdobbiadene to follow his passion for violin making in Cremona, the international capital of violin making in Italy, where he attended the prestigious violin making school “A.Stradivari” Cremona, graduating in 2006. While learning the art of lutherie at A.Stradivari, Luca enriched[…]
“My goal has always been one: to manufacture more instruments than Stradivari did” and he’s not too far from the goal. Stefano Conia, born in 1946, is one of the representatives of contemporary Cremonese violinmaking, one of the founders of the renewed violinmaking tradition, reborn under the sign of Stradivari.[…]
