In the Strad Magazine January 2020 edition, my colleague Hugh Withycombe and I published an article on madder lake pigments. These types of colour...
Strad magazine Jan. 2020
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Artsfile
In December arts journalist Peter Robb visited my workshop and we gave him a workshop tour. We talked about what goes into making a good string...
VSA awards!
In November I took part in the 23rd Violin Society of America Violin Making Competition. I'm pleased to say I won two awards. An award for...
Exhibition in New York
In New York at the Lincoln Centre in the Bruno Walter Auditorium there will be an exhibition of contemporary violins, violas, cellos and bows....
Cello Endpins
Over the past 25 years I have tried a number of different endpin and endpin spikes while making cellos. Mostly carbon fibre and steel spikes. We...
Toronto Symphony Orchestra and cello soloist
This Sunday afternoon I had the pleasure to listen to Dale Yoonho Jeong perform as soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Roy Thompson Hall....
Making violins in Maine and Tool Makers, Lee Nielsen
In the fall I was kindly invited to Maine, in the US, to work with 7 other violin makers at a beautiful seaside cottage for a week. We each worked...
ChiMei Museum
On my trip to Taiwan in July, I visited the Chimei Museum in the southern city of Tainan. It houses a mixture of art, natural history and musical...
July 2017 – In Taiwan.
After returning from two busy weeks of violin making in Oberlin, Ohio and working for a week in my Ottawa workshop, we shall close again for one...
Summer 2017 – in the US.
This June our workshop shall be closed from June 17th and opening again on June 27th. My assistant is enjoying a summer holiday in Europe. Meanwhile...
The Strad – May issue
This month the English magazine 'The Strad' published an article on my workshop. In each issue they have a 'my space' section which shows the...
Exhibition in Toronto – follow up
The January exhibition of Canadian violin and bow makers in Toronto was a great success. With over 35 violin and bow makers from around Canada...