Makers

Violin and bow-makers scheduled to appear at our 2024 West Cork Chamber Music Festival

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Violin Makers

Baerbel Bellinghausen

Violin Makers

Baerbel Bellinghausen is devoted to sound: string instruments have been part of her life ever since her youth. She is...

Youenn Bothorel

Violin Makers

His sensitivity to music and its instruments led him at 19 years old to Newark School of Violin Making, England,...

John Cockburn

Violin Makers

John Cockburn’s passion for violin making arose from lifelong obsessions with acoustics, craftsmanship, and music of all genres. Following stints...

Andrew Finnigan & Pia Klaembt

Violin Makers

We are fascinated by sound. Understanding the acoustical properties of our instruments and their materials is the driving force in...

Bertrand Galen

Violin Makers

Bertrand was born in Metz in eastern France and trained at the Mirecourt International Violinmaking School. After five years as...

Eero Haahti

Bow Makers, Violin Makers

Eero Haahti (*16.12.1961) - started studying cello playing at the age of five with Arto Noras - 1977 made his...

Michiel de Hoog

Violin Makers

Michiel de Hoog has been making violins for over forty years. Born in Holland into an artistic family, he started violin...

Ian Knepper

Violin Makers

Originally from the united states, Ian has been living in Ireland since 2007. Ian started out in the violin trade...

Jeremie Legrand

Violin Makers

Jeremie Legrand began studying violin making at the National School of Mirecourt, France, at the age of 15. He worked...

Conor Russell

Violin Makers

Conor Russell was born in Dublin, Ireland. He played the violin, and began making instruments at Cork School of Music....

Jan Strick

Violin Makers

Violin maker Jan Strick and Bowmaker Pierre Guillaume have been jointly running Maison Bernard, the oldest lutherie workshop in Europe....

Bow Makers

Tim Baker

Bow Makers

Tim Baker graduated from the Newark School of Violin Making with distinction in 1981, and joined W.E. Hill & Sons...

Noel Burke

Bow Makers

Noel Burke began his bow making career in 1989 as apprentice to Charles Espey in Seattle Washington and later to...

Niall Fleming

Bow Makers

Niall started playing the violin at the age of 5. He then became interested in making violins at the age...

Boris Fritsch

Bow Makers

Boris Fritsch established his own workshop in Paris in 2004. He is creating bows on single projects with musicians. Boris...

Klaus Grünke

Bow Makers

Klaus Grünke learned the craft of bow making from his father Richard Grünke, in Bubenreuth. In the years 1980- 1982...

Eero Haahti

Bow Makers, Violin Makers

Eero Haahti (*16.12.1961) - started studying cello playing at the age of five with Arto Noras - 1977 made his...

Stéphane Thomachot

Bow Makers

Stéphane Thomachot was born in 1959 in Bourg-la-Reine, France, and studied bow making at Mirecourt under Bernard Ouchard from 1975...