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Contributors
MICHAEL DARNTON
(Books, page 93) is co-owner of Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins in Chicago, where he oversees the repair and restoration shop. He has 40 years of experience in the violin business and was trained at Bein & Fushi and William Harris Lee.
GERALD ELIAS
(Orchestral playing, page 52) is a former violinist with the Boston Symphony and associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony. He has been music director of the Vivaldi by Candlelight chamber orchestra concerts since 2004 and is the author of many books, among them the Daniel Jacobus murder mystery series.
MATS LIDSTRÖM
(Technique, page 78) is an international soloist and chamber musician. He is the Leo Stern Fellow of the cello faculty at the Royal Academy of Music and a solo cellist with the Oxford Philharmonic. He is currently working on a piece for cello and orchestra, his tribute to the cellist Lynn Harrell.
NELLY POIDEVIN
(Making Matters, page 68) has worked as a bow maker for almost 40 years, first in Paris and since 2000 in Dinan, Brittany. Since the late 1980s she has specialised in the reconstruction of historical bows. She regularly gives lectures and writes papers on the history of bows in Europe.
LAURA VAN DER HEIJDEN
(Opinion, page 21) is an internationally renowned cellist who recently signed an exclusive contract with Chandos Records. She came to prominence as the winner of BBC Young Musician in 2012. Her 2018 debut album 1948, featuring Russian music for cello and piano, won an Edison Klassiek Award.
SISI YE
(Violin making in China, page 48) is a researcher from the School of Music at South China Normal University, as well as a pianist, chamber musician, and chief executive of the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China.