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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
With over 25 years of experience, several international awards, and 10 years of training in schools and workshops around the world, Paul Noulet now devotes himself exclusively to making professional instruments. His extensive research into the traditions of Italian master violin makers guides his approach to balancing the tension 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[…]
The construction of a singing instrument has fascinated Gideon Baumblatt and Mira Gruszow from the very beginning and brought them to Cremona at a young age. It’s their common starting point on a path that took them to very different places and experiences and eventually reunited them on this quest[…]
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[…]
Ulrike Dederer is an award-winning luthier based in Zürich (Switzerland). She began her violin making training at the International violin making school in Cremona (Italy) under Vincenzo Bissolotti in 1989, receiving her diploma in 1993. She worked as a maker and restorer for over 12 years before opening her own[…]
“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.[…]
