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- Festival Exhibition 2023
An international exhibition of fine contemporary violin and bow making runs throughout the festival and displays instruments and bows from some of the leading makers in the field. The exhibition is comprised of both baroque and modern violin, viola, cello and double bass and baroque, transitional and modern bows for the quartet.
The makers will be present, some will be working at their benches and all will be available to meet and to discuss their work. All of the instruments and bows in the exhibition are available for trial and most are available for sale. An instrument and bow maintenance and repair service will also be available throughout the festival.
Violin Talks are held alongside the exhibition in The Old Methodist Church, Bantry. All talks are free.
Baerbel is devoted to sound: string instruments have been part of her life ever since her youth. She is thrilled...
Read MoreHis sensitivity to music and its instruments led him at 19 years old to Newark School of Violin Making, England,...
Read MoreJohn Cockburn’s passion for violin making arose from lifelong obsessions with acoustics, craftsmanship, and music of all genres. Following stints...
Read MoreWe are fascinated by sound. Understanding the acoustical properties of our instruments and their materials is the driving force in...
Read MoreBertrand was born in Metz in eastern France and trained at the Mirecourt International Violinmaking School. After five years as...
Read MoreAfter their studies in Cremona and Mittenwald, Mira Gruszow and Gideon Baumblatt worked for different workshops in Germany, London and...
Read MoreMichiel de Hoog has been making violins for over forty years. Born in Holland into an artistic family, he started...
Read MoreFrancis Kuttner was born in Washington D.C. to German Jewish refugees who fled Berlin in the '30s via Rome and...
Read MoreDavid Munro makes violins and violas for professional orchestral musicians, chamber music players and soloists. His instruments have recorded chamber...
Read MoreConor Russell was born in Dublin, Ireland. He played the violin, and began making instruments at Cork School of Music....
Read MoreVictor Bernard was born in 1985 near Paris, France. After being graduated from the Newark School of Violin Making, passionate...
Read MoreNoel Burke began his bow making career in 1989 as apprentice to Charles Espey in Seattle Washington and later to...
Read MoreEmmanuel Carlier was born in 1975 near Paris. After history studies, a violin making apprenticeship and few years of journalism,...
Read MoreNiall started playing the violin at the age of 5. He then became interested in making violins at the age...
Read MoreKlaus Grünke learned the craft of bow making from his father Richard Grünke, in Bubenreuth. In the years 1980- 1982...
Read MoreSince my first fortuitous contacts with bowmaking I find my enjoyment of the profession increasing every year. The craft makes it...
Read MoreStéphane Thomachot was born in 1959 in Bourg-la-Reine, France, and studied bow making at Mirecourt under Bernard Ouchard. Upon graduation,...
Read MoreGregor Walbrodt, born in 1968, began his training as a bowmaker in 1990 at the Roderich Paesold workshop in Bubenreuth,...
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