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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