Historically Informed Violin-making Course with luthier Dmitry BadiarovStart around June 2010! No groups, individual lessons!
Intended audienceAnyone can join, with or without wood-working experience: amateurs, beginners, professionals.
Minimum age -18, maximum age - 120.
LanguagesAt the choice of the student: Japanese, English, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish.
Duration of the course200 hours split according to the students' convenience. Recommended frequency: minimum one day/week, 5 hours a day.
ToolsStudents may use the tools available at the violin-making studio of Dmitry Badiarov (extra fees will apply).
Students are advised to buy their own minimum starter-sets of tools (can be bought from the studio of Dmitry Badiarov).
Wood etcWood, strings and varnishing materials available upon request at an extra fee.
Location165-13 Higashi-nakano, Hachioji Tokyo 192-0351.
Contact+81(0)90-1739-5272, e-mail: info_AT_violadabraccio.com
http://violadabraccio.comLuthier Dmitry Badiarov - profileI was born in Russia in 1969. I lived 25 years years in St. Petersburg and 12 years in Belgium. Now I am living in Tokyo. I started carving the wood at the age of 5 and playing the violin at the age of 8. At the age of 11 I started violin-making. I graduated from St. Petersburg State Conservatoire (modern violin) and
Brussels Royal Conservatoire (baroque violin). The first violin I made got a diploma at the National Violin-Making Competition in Moscow in 1990. After that I decided to take a different route and study the Baroque period and the history of the violin instead of participating in competitions. I made instruments for
Sigiswald Kuijken,
Francois Fernandez,
Ryo Terakado and many other outstanding soloists. Baroque violinists residing in and near Belgium, members of the leading orchestras such as the orchestra of
Collegium Vocale, Anima Eterna,
Il Fondamento,
La Petite Bande,
Ricercar Consort etc, and violin-players from across Europe visited my studio in Brussels daily. Incidentally, Belgian government recognized my feeble efforts as culturally important and granted me with the Belgian citizenship. I reconstructed
violoncellos da spalla and a set of early baroque Germanic violins for
La Petite Bande and currently working on several other violin-making projects. I have been teaching at various institutions in Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Mexico and Japan, including the
National University of Fine Arts and Music and
Daikanyama Academy of Music in Tokyo.
Here we are, almost in December. That will be my last month of teaching the violin-making at Daikanyama Ongakuin. The time passed fast! In fact, you don't notice the time when it's fun, and it almost stops when it's boring... Yeah, yeah, you know!
you: you were my most talented students and I wish you luck. Don't forget about the God and Nature as seen by the great masters of the past. Keep these in mind, at least, while making your violins and you will be fine, I guess...
(;_;) Thanks for all and GOOD LUCK!
