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Last week we had 2-days workshop with Maestro Hrachya Galstyan on peg construction

It was fascinating to see the artisanal making of these set up accessories that most luthiers buy already made.

Thank you, Maestro!
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What makes our Academia truly unique is the emphasis given on developing practical skills

???? Our students learn how to build violins for 40 hours a week

????‍???? 880 hours of Workshop per semester (Foundational Course*)

most of the lessons are individual and take place in each student’s workbench

(here there are some of our students working on their instruments/bows)

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Our former students came to visit at the Exhibition
It’s always a great pleasure to us to see them and to talk about their careers and experiences
We wish you the best!

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We would like to express our deepest gratitude to @_cremonasera for the outstanding article recently published, celebrating the extraordinary initiatives and achievements of our Academia di Liuteria.

It is with great pride that we continue to spread the word and share our unceasing commitment with an ever-growing public.

Our heartfelt thanks go to Cremonasera for presenting the important work ‘Enciclopedia dei liutai italiani dal Novecento ad oggi’ at the majestic Palazzo Mina Bolzesi in via Platina, in collaboration with the Academia Cremonensis. This monumental encyclopaedia, skilfully edited by Gualtero Nicolini and Fabrizio Loffi and published by Cremonasera, represents an authentic masterpiece in the history of violin making, with over 800 pages and the presentation of over six thousand Italian violin makers, accompanied by photographs and precious details.

During the presentation evening, Academia’s director, Nicholas Gamberini, welcomed the guests, while Cremonasera’s editor-in-chief, Mario Silla, explained the reasons that motivated the local newspaper to invest so much effort in this project, emphasising the importance of violin making as an element of Cremona’s identity in the world.

The authors, Gualtiero Nicolini (President of Anlai) and Fabrizio Loffi (an expert journalist from Cremona in historical and archival research), shared their extraordinary effort in collecting data, news and images concerning Italian violin makers, thus expanding a project that began over fifteen years ago. Nicolini highlighted the challenges encountered during the research, including the difficulties in obtaining information from some violin-making schools, emphasising the importance of the result obtained and envisaging the possibility of an English-language edition.

Fabrizio Loffi recounted the approach to the work, highlighting the difficulties and the ardent desire to fill a gap in knowledge. He also pointed out the profound significance of violin making in Cremona and why local information and historical research cannot ignore this extraordinary sector, an integral part of Cremona’s identity.

In closing, Loffi mentioned the ongoing work on the figure of Antonio Stradivari and the possible publication of new documents on his life.

During the event, we had the pleasure of hosting numerous violin makers from all over the world, as well as the president of the Fondazione Monzino in Milan, Antonio Monzino. The evening ended with a splendid guitar concert by the Cantiga duo.

We sincerely thank Cremonasera for celebrating and sharing this extraordinary work with the world and for giving us the opportunity to make our commitment to violin making known. We are grateful for your continued support and collaboration.

LINK: https://cremonasera.it/cronaca/presentata-a-palazzo-mina-l-enciclopedia-dei-liutai-italiani-dal-novecento-a-oggi-edito-da-cremonasera

24 September 2023

Presented at Palazzo Mina the “Encyclopaedia of Italian Violin Makers from the 20th Century to Today”, published by Cremonasera

In the magnificent halls of Palazzo Mina Bolzesi in Via Platina, guests of the Academia Cremonensis, yesterday evening Anlai and Cremonasera presented the monumental work “Encyclopaedia of Italian Violin Makers from the 20th Century to Today” published by Cremonasera and edited by Gualtero Nicolini and Fabrizio Loffi. Over 800 pages, six thousand names with photographs and cartouches, the book marks a milestone in the history of violin making.

After a welcome from Academia director Nicholas Gamberini, Cremonasera director Mario Silla explained the reasons why a local daily newspaper has made such an effort on the subject of violin making, Cremona’s identifying motif in the world. It was then the turn of the two authors to recount the extraordinary effort to find data, news and images on violin makers, expanding a previous work of over fifteen years ago.

Gualtiero Nicolini (president of Anlai) emphasised that not all violinmaking schools collaborated in providing their graduates and so the research also had to take alternative routes made up of acquaintances, telephone calls, online searches and much more.

“The result is really satisfying,” said Nicolini, “and we are already thinking about the English-language edition. Fabrizio Loffi, a Cremonese journalist and expert in historical and archival research, emphasised the approach he had taken to the work, the difficulties, but also the desire to fill a space that had been missing until now. A brief mention was also made of the significance of violin making in Cremona and why local information and historical research cannot ignore the violin and everything that has moved around the sector over the centuries, the true identity of our Cremona. In conclusion, Fabrizio Loffi mentioned the work being done on the figure of Antonio Stradivari and the possibility of a publication with new documents on his life.

Among the guests of the evening were several luthiers from all over the world and Antonio Monzino, president of the Monzino Foundation in Milan. The evening concluded with a splendid guitar concert by the Cantiga duo.

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Special thanks to @_cremonasera for the beautifully written and published article about the initiatives and new achievements of our Violinmaking Academy.

We are very proud to be able to make our reality more and more known and to convey our daily commitment.

May 24, 2021

“New viola da gamba course, conferences and important initiatives at Academia Cremonensis.

A leap in quality, greater commitment, and many new projects are at the heart of the Academia Cremonensis, which recently expanded its spaces in the Mina palace on Via Platina 66 with the rental of new rooms all frescoed and adorned with beautiful statues. A conference room has been built where a symposium on legislation in the violin-making sector recently took place, while a recording room for concerts and a classroom equipped for video lectures and lessons via online will soon be built.

But that’s not all: in fact, efforts are being made to organize in collaboration with anlai for next September an international conference and an exhibition of works by the winners of the violinmaking competitions of Baveno and Pisogne, two small tourist resorts that have been defined over time as “capitals” of violinmaking and have meant a great deal to many violinmakers now established in various countries.

The anlai also intended to propose master classes by great masters that are being discussed but could be implemented soon. Meanwhile, selections have been opened for the admission of students who will attend the Viola da gamba construction course. The Academia, alongside the three-year courses in violin making and strings, will hold summer meetings and master classes, courses for baroque violin, a course for copies of ancient instruments that has been entrusted to maestro Amorin, and plans are being made to organize courses in classical guitar and harpsichord. A qualitative leap, then indeed, of considerable importance for a city that wants in all respects to call itself the capital of violin making.

Meanwhile, in September, as mentioned, the viola da gamba course will kick off, considered one of the most representative instruments of Renaissance and Baroque music when it found a worthy place in courts throughout Europe. In fact, it is an instrument of great versatility capable of developing different timbral characteristics and distinguished by stylistic and ornamental refinement, It will last one year and will consist of 1,000 hours of lessons: it will be open to graduates in architecture, engineering and violin making and only 10 students in total will be allowed to take it.

The teachers will be the Mexican Carlos Pineda, who graduated from the Civic School of Milan after attending the school of violin making in Xalapa, created by graduates of Cremona, who is well known and appreciated by many musicians in the field, and the Spanish Laura Guijarro who graduated in Cremona from Ipial specializing in Baroque and Renaissance instrument making. The selections of future students involve many foreigners also because the cost is certainly not insignificant 12 thousand euros but the graduates will be able at the end of their studies to build at least one model of the instrument and devote themselves in the field and also to have also made all the necessary specialized equipment.”

Giorgia Coriselli

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Article published by CremonaSera

https://www.cremonasera.it/cronaca/nuovo-corso-per-viola-da-gamba-convegni-e-importanti-iniziative-all-academia-cremonensis-1

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Violin Making workshop with Master Liu Zhao Yang. What part of the violin are they studying and creating? The bassbar. The bassbar is a spruce wood bar, positioned longitudinally and glued to the inside of the board, passing under the bridge. Its function is intended to be of support and is crucial for the final rendering of the violin ????. With the passage of time its structure tends to lose nerve, causing the violin top to lower and causing the lower notes of the instrument to lose strength. You must be very careful and carefully consider when to replace it.

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The first day of the Workshop dedicated to the sharpening of all work equipment was held with great success and we are very happy with your interest.

Will there be any other workshops planned? Sure! Thanks to the many applications received, the Academy is organizing the next dates and many other news.

Stay tuned!

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The moment of the Diploma is always special and never as in this period does it represent a goal achieved.

Yesterday our student Zhang Weitong finished his studies at the Academia, receiving the Diploma of Professional Violin Maker.

With the necessary precautions we wanted to capture his emotion at the end of a unique life experience. Congratulations Zhang Weitong.

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On World Earth Day , we want to share with you a fascinating tradition: that of the Paneveggio Forests of Trentino Alto Adige, which allow us to have very valuable wood for the construction of musical instruments.

Every year, in the days following the new moon in December, the forest guards of the Paneveggio area select and cut the spruce or “Mondholz” wood, also known as “lunar wood”.

Respecting the lunar calendar not only preserves the characteristics of the wood, but also respects the natural cycle of the forest. Some of the trunks are then immersed in the Travignolo stream, where the winter water keeps them, caressing them, rocking them and giving them the vibrations useful for its sound. We will then have to wait until May, to pick up and work the so-called “washed” wood. This wood, of great value in violin making, is characterized by elasticity, optimal duration over the years, lightness and quantity of harmonic vibrations, then transmitted to the future finished instrument .

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