Today the Ottawa Citizen newspaper published an article on a violin made in Milan during the 18th Century by Carlo Fernando Landolfi. It was...
Milanese violin at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Music.
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Alexandre Turmel concert
This Friday violinist Alexandre Turmel is giving a concert with George Harris on flute. The program begins with a Mozart flute concerto and a Mozart...
Chamber Music Concerts – Ottawa
Each summer Ottawa is fortunate to have the wonderful Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, which has grown to be the largest chamber music festival in the...
Talk at the NAC Young Artist Program
Each summer the National Arts Centre presents the Young Artist Program. Young musicians from around the world come to Ottawa for chamber music...
Buying wood in Europe
Last week I was in Germany and North Italy buying spruce and maple for the next few years of violin making. A colleague and I first visited the...
New CD – Bolero ‘Prochaine Station’
A new CD by the Montreal-based trio 'Bolero' was released in the fall last year and we've enjoyed listening to it many times in the workshop. Titled...
New Norteño CD
The superb ensemble Norteño have released their third CD ~ Cato's Life. This album features music composed by Pierre-Paul Provencher, who also...
Varnish – Italian violin
The photo below is from an Italian violin made in Milan during the middle of the 18th Century. It's in our workshop for some major restoration...
Exhibition in New Orleans- May 13th (workshop closing for a week)
In May our workshop will be closed for one week from May 8th and opening again on May 15th. During that week, I'll be in New Orleans for the...
Copy of a viola by Giovanni Paolo Maggini
This week I finished an instrument modeled after a viola by G.P. Maggini. The original was made in Brescia, Italy, during the early part of the 17th...
Pierre Martel Cello
Last year a local music organization gave me a cello as a thank you for volunteer work I had done over the past few years. This small size cello was...
Toronto Star – “Contemporary violins upstage a Stradivarius”
A study by Claudia Fritz comparing contemporary violins with Cremonese violins has been featured in various magazines and newspapers recently. ...