Moscow

At the international competition for string instrument makers "Violin - Soul and Shape," held at the end of November 2019 in Moscow, I participated with my violin, which I specially built for this competition, and won 1st place, a gold medal, and a diploma as the winner in that category. The competi...

Maintenance

Here, I would like to address the issue of instrument maintenance, which is relevant across all levels of playing—from school to professional. Many musicians have an inexplicable fear of potential damage to their instruments, especially cracks, fractures, and breakage. For some, this fear is so stro...

Restaurations

Each, even smallest intervention on an instrument, represents a very delicate approach both to the problem itself and its solution, all the more so because of the final result which becomes displayed to the public in two ways: by the sound and visually!

Together, it shows the style and the mode of...