Seminar - THE CREATION OF SOUND

 

One of the big differences between buying a preexisting old instrument and getting a new instrument or bow is that with the new instrument a musician has the opportunity to work directly one on one with the maker, and this gives the opportunity to custom create what is really appropriate for each musician.

 

Targets of the seminar
Violin and bow makers, professional musicians.

 

Speakers 
Sam Zygmuntowicz: Sam Zygmuntowicz has studied violin making and restoration with Peter Prier, Carl Becker and Rene Morel. His work has won high honors in international competitions, including double gold medals for violin tone and workmanship (Violin Society of America, 1980). Since 1985 he has worked independently in Brooklyn, NY, making violins,violas and cellos by advance commission, and working actively with performers such as Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Joshua Bell, Maxim Vengerov, and the entire Emerson String Quartet.

 

Arnold Steinhardt: Arnold Steinhardt: Arnold Steinhardt was born in Los Angeles, and made his solo debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at age fourteen.  Winner of the Philadelphia Youth Competition in 1957, the 1958 Leventritt Award, and Bronze Medallist in the Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition in 1963, Mr. Steinhardt has appeared throughout North America and Europe as a recitalist and soloist.

Mr. Steinhardt is first violinist and a founding member (1964) of the internationally acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet with which he has made innumerable tours across the globe and recorded dozens of albums for RCA Victor, Philips, Arabesque and Surrounded By Entertainment. The quartet retired in 2009. He is professor of violin and chamber music at Colburn Music School, the University of Maryland, Bard College, and the Curtis Institute of Music.  Arnold Steinhardt has written two books: Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998); and Violin Dreams (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).  Arnold Steinhardt plays a Lorenzo Storioni violin from Cremona, Italy, late 18th century, and a violin made in 2006 by Samuel Zygmuntowicz.