Niall is an award winning bowmaker based in Brussels, who’s bows are sought after internationally. In 2022 Niall won 2 gold medals for his bows from the Violin Society of America, in 2019 he received 2nd place in the Concours International d’Archeterie Viola’s and has received several certificates for craftsmanship from the V.S.A. in 2018, 2022 and 2024.
At 16 he started making violins at The Cambridge Violinmakers workshop and then went on to complete the violin-making school in Newark, U.K. in 2010. Directly after graduating, Niall began serving an apprenticeship with Pierre Guillaume in Brussels, subsequently, he then spent nearly two years working with Noel Burke in Ireland. Following that Niall set up a workshop in Kilkenny, Ireland and since 2020 he has been working in his workshop in Brussels. He takes his inspiration from the work of the great French masters of the early 19th Centaury.
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