Pluhar Violins are celebrating 10 successful years of business. We would like to thank all our customers for their support!

This month we are featuring new recordings by Ahim Horvath - Kisromay on a Pluhar Stradivari Model.

Please view Max Dobrovich's wonderful shots of my Stradivari copy.

Pluhar violins has now become an affiliate of Lark Insurance. You can now do your musical instruments insurance directly from here.

Please welcome Cem Muharrem of Brighton, UK to the family of Pluhar violins owners! Cem studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Itzak Rashkovsky and has been recently awarded a Masters Degree in Advanced Performance. He has promised some contribution for the Recordings section of this site.

The Turkish virtuoso Özcan Ulucan, formerly assistent of Maxim Vengerov, is currently playing on a Pluhar violin. We hope to hear him in concert or on a recording in the near future!

Listen to Gül E. Ersoy Pluhar using her Pluhar viola, a copy of a viola by G.B. Guadagnini, in Morton Feldman's 'The Viola in my Life'.

View Richard Valenica's fantastic shots of my cello in posession of Ben Trigg, London.

Read the "Product of the Month" in the January issue of "The Strad" regarding our new ViolinGraduation software.

Rupert Bawden of London, composer, violinist and violist is now my first customer to own both a Pluhar violin and viola, having just recently purchased the latter.

Congratulations to Ahim Horvath-Kisromay for winning a special prize at the NDR - music competititon!

Horvath studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Lukas Hagen and plays a Pluhar violin. Entering the finals as the only string player, his prize is a recording with the North German Radio (NDR).

Watch Ahim play Kreisler's "Schön Rosmarin" in this Youtube video!

Listen to 2 new recordings on which Pluhar instruments are featured:

Listen to Pieter Schoeman using his Pluhar violin as concertmaster of the London Philharmonic in solos of Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony. The original score asks for the concertmaster to use two violins in the Scherzo, one of which is tuned a tone higher and this is Schoeman's Pluhar violin, the other one is his Bergonzi violin.

'The Strad' Magazine featured our new software ViolinGraduation in it's January issue in the 'Product of the Month' section. Check out our software demonstration!

I have just finished and delivered a commission for 2 new violins for the Music University 'Mozarteum' in Salzburg. The two violins were based on a violin of 1704 of the Italian Master Antonio Stradivari.

Pluhar Violins have now also reached Holland: Marleen de Bruin, assistent leader of the second violins in The Brabants Orchestra is now playing my latest violin.

The software ViolinGraduation is now for sale. Create your own colour graduation maps. Click on the violin symbol for a commercial Animation.

Just working on a new 'Trade Secrets' for The Strad magazine, which will appear in the October issue.

I have just returned from a fantastic Oberlin Violin Making workshop, sharing and exchanging experiences with 40 other violin makers.

Listen to Monk's new CD Demo version (The man who sleeps on his breath) with a small string contribution of ours.

Check out some new photos of my viola after G.B. Guadagnini.

Come to the BVMA's yearly Makers Day and try out hundreds of new instruments. I will have a stand there. For more info please click...

My most recent Strad "Trade Secrets" is now online! It was published in the November 2007 issue.

Come to the BVMA's yearly Makers Day and try out hundreds of new instruments. I will have a stand there. For more info please click...

• Hear Pieter Schoeman play his Bergonzi
Piazzola, Film recording, Brahms

• Read my BVMA articles on f-hole placement.
BVMA Winter 2005, BVMA Spring 2006

Pieter Schoeman, leading the LPO, will play the solos of the Scherzo (2nd movement) in Gustav Mahler´s Symphony 4 on his Pluhar violin.
The venue is London´s  Royal Festival Hall. This concert will be recorded by BBC radio and broadcast on November 30th.

Look out for another "Trade Secret" of mine in the November issue of The Strad

Camilo da Rosa Simões from the Salzburg Chamber Soloists and student at the Mozarteum Salzburg buys a violin of mine.

We will be attending the International Summer Academy Bad Leonfelden and have some new instruments there to try.

Recording session for Sevenahalf records for my brother Philipp's band ´Monk´. Here a photo with Gül on viola and Rina Kacinari on cello. We are looking forward to the release of the album.

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