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[…]
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.[…]
