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[…]
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[…]
Noémie Viaud is an award winning luthier based in Risskov, Denmark. She has been passionately making violins, violas and cellos for the past 24 years. The search for a personal and ideal sound, warm, powerful, full of overtones, precise in its projection, balanced and inspirational, is an endless fascination for[…]
