{"id":7,"date":"2013-06-20T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2024-06-16T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T13:54:47","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Professional Violin Maker<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<strong>Violin Maker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1982-present, maker of over 200 violins, violas and \u2018cellos suitable for professional, soloist, and amateur musicians.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<strong>Pedagogue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Bennet Street School, Violin Making and Restoration Instructor, 1986-1998<\/p>\n<p>Instructor, VSA-Oberlin Set-up Workshop, 2006-08<\/p>\n<p>Guest Instructor, Chicago School of Violin Making, 2013<br \/>\n1998-present, Instruction of amateurs and fellow professionals in aspects of violin making, especially varnish and set-up in small workshops and in private lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Aesthetic and Artistic Violin Varnishing, an annual intensive workshop, with Joe Robson<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<strong>Organizational and Service to the Trade:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President and Board Member, Violin Society of America<br \/>\nSecretary and Governor, American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers<br \/>\nAdviser \u00a0and Adjudicator, North Bennet Street School, 1998- 2013<br \/>\nAdvisory Committee member, Chicago School of Violin making, 2010 to the present<br \/>\nFounder, Boston Violin Makers Co-operative, Waltham, Massachusetts<br \/>\nArtist-in-Residence, Emerson Umbrella, Center for the Arts, Concord, Massachusetts<br \/>\nFounder, Pioneer Violin Makers Association<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<strong>Career Showcase Events\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gallery Show, Lexington Center for Arts and Crafts, 2008<br \/>\nGallery Show, \u201cMaster Works, 30 Years of Craftsmanship\u201d, 2007<br \/>\nLecture on Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri , VSA, 2009<br \/>\nPanel discussion leader or participant, VSA Conventions, 1996 to the present<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bachelors of Music, Viola Performance, U of I, 1978<br \/>\nChicago School of Violin Making, formerly the Kenneth Warren School of Violin Making<br \/>\nVSA-Oberlin Violin Making Workshops 1997-present<br \/>\nBein and Fushi Rare Violins, repairer and restorer, 1981-1983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Violin Maker &nbsp; *\u00a0Violin Maker 1982-present, maker of over 200 violins, violas and \u2018cellos suitable for professional, soloist, and amateur musicians. *\u00a0Pedagogue North Bennet Street School, Violin Making and Restoration Instructor, 1986-1998 Instructor, VSA-Oberlin Set-up Workshop, 2006-08 Guest Instructor, Chicago School of Violin Making, 2013 1998-present, Instruction of amateurs and fellow professionals in aspects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violamaker.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}