Violin and bow-makers scheduled to appear at our 2026 West Cork Chamber Music Festival will appear on this page soon…

Violin Makers
Baerbel Bellinghausen

Baerbel Bellinghausen

Violin Makers

Baerbel Bellinghausen is devoted to sound: string instruments have been part of her life ever since her youth. She is...

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Pia Klaembt & Andrew Finnigan

Pia Klaembt & Andrew Finnigan

Violin Makers

Pia and Andrew craft antiqued concert string instruments, combining traditional artistry with scientific methods such as modal analysis and sound...

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Bertrand Galen

Bertrand Galen

Violin Makers

Bertrand Galen is a French violinmaker and cellist based in Cork, Ireland. Trained at the renowned violin-making school in Mirecourt,...

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Michiel de Hoog

Michiel de Hoog

Violin Makers

Michiel de Hoog has been making violins for over forty years. Born in Holland into an artistic family, he started violin...

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Ian Knepper

Ian Knepper

Violin Makers

Ian Knepper is originally from the United States, now based in Cork City, Ireland, where he has lived for the...

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Jeremie Legrand

Jeremie Legrand

Violin Makers

Jeremie  Legrand is a luthier specialising in the making of violins, violas, and cellos. He currently works between London and...

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Melina Polizzi

Melina Polizzi

Violin Makers

After completing her studies at the School of Violin Making in Cremona in 2011, Venice born Melina Polizzi worked as...

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Conor Russell

Conor Russell

Violin Makers

He played the violin, and began making instruments at Cork School of Music. He spent time in several workshops, including...

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Noémie Viaud

Noémie Viaud

Violin Makers

Noémie Viaud is an award winning luthier based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has been passionately making violins, violas and cellos...

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Adam Winskill

Adam Winskill

Violin Makers

Adam Winskill is a violin restorer and maker working in Hampstead, North London. After graduating from Royal Welsh College of...

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Bow Makers
Noel Burke

Noel Burke

Bow Makers

Noel Burke began his bow making career in 1989 as apprentice to Charles Espey in Seattle Washington and later to...

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Niall Fleming

Niall Fleming

Bow Makers

Niall is an award winning bowmaker based in Brussels, who’s bows are sought after internationally. In 2022 Niall won 2...

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Kees van Hemert

Kees van Hemert

Bow Makers

After a career as artist, holding exhibitions and lecturing in the the Netherlands and Australia, I started bowmaking In 1991....

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Franziska Truestedt

Franziska Truestedt

Bow Makers

Trained as a violin maker in Mittenwald, Franziska studied the craft of bowmaking in Munich with Markus Worz, applying the...

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