Professional Violins

After working as a award winning carpenter, Luk began his career as a luthier in 1974. He was invited to relocate to Australia in 1990 to teach car...

This violin was made in the workshop of Mario Gadda in 1997 in Mantova.  It is labeled 'Anno 1997 / Mario Gadda / Fece in Mantova / Modello Person...

This violin is from the workshop of Collin-Mezin, one of the most prolific violin-making workshops in France at the turn of the 20th century.The vi...

This violin was made by Giovanni Varazzani in 2022 in Cremona. Giovanni is the brother of master luthier Andrea Varazzani, and had an independent c...

This violin was made in the workshop of Elisa Scrollavezza and Andrea Zanrè in 2024 in Parma. Elisa Scrollavezza and Andrea Zanrè opened their own ...

Mazzotti learned the craft of violin making while attending the Istituto Liutario ‘A Stradivari’ in Cremona and undertook private lessons with vari...

This violin was made by Hagen Weise in Baiersdorf in 2018. Weise has been active since 1991 when he commenced work for the Roderisch Paesold Compan...

Matteo Marsili studied at the International School of Violin Making in Cremona under the guidance of Master Massimo Negroni. After graduating in 20...

This violin was made by Roberto Cavagnoli in 2008 in Cremona. Cavagnoli was born in Brescia in 1975, and after graduating from the International S...

This violin was made by Scrollavezza and Zanre in 2008, in Parma, Italy. Elisa Scrollavezza and Andrea Zanrè opened their own workshop in Parma in ...

This Instrument was made by Andrea Varazzani in 2023 in Cremona, Italy. Andrea Varazzani is a luthier from Naples working in the Po Valley outside ...

Marco Dotti graduated from the International School of Violin Making in Cremona, after which he joined the workshop of Maestro Edgar E. Russ as an ...

Ricardo Grisales, originally from Colombia, is the nephew of Master maker Giorgio Grisales and moved to Italy in 2000 to pursue violin making. Bet...

This violin was made by Paul Jombar in 1906 in Paris, France. Jombar began his violin making career as a pupil of Nestor Audinot between 1882 and 1...

Originally from the former Soviet Union, Vladimiro Cubanzi relocated to Italy, where he attended the International School of Violin Making in Cremo...

This violin was made by Sofia Vettori in Florence in 2017. Vettori was born in Florence in the early 1980's as part of a family steeped in the trad...

This violin was made by Francesco Bissolotti in Cremona in 2012. Bissolotti was born in 1929, and initially trained as a wood-carver early in his l...

This violin was made at the Gand & Bernardel firm in 1876, in Paris. Gand & Bernardel Frères was a firm established in 1866, and was one of...

This violin was made by Riccardo Genovese in 1929 in Montiglio, a town in the north-west of Italy. Genovese was a violinist, organist, and pianist ...

This violin was made by the ‘father of Australian violin makers’ Arthur Edward Smith in Sydney, in 1957. Smith was born in 1880 in London and migra...