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Contributors
PABLO ALFARO
(Trade Secrets, page 82), originally from Mexico, is an award-winning violin maker and restorer based in Decatur, GA, US. He is a past governor of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers and is president of the Southern Violin Association.
HELEN BRUNNER
(The Suzuki approach to tone, page 37) is a violin graduate of London’s Royal College of Music and the Suzuki Talent Education Institute in Japan. She established the London Suzuki Group in 1972, and the Russian Suzuki Association in 2015. She is now an international Suzuki teacher trainer.
NATALIE CLEIN
(Masterclass, page 90) studied the cello in Vienna with Heinrich Schiff. She is a professor at London’s Royal College of Music and the Music Academy Rostock, and is the artistic director of her own chamber music festival in Purbeck, Dorset.
OSKAR FALTA
(Daniil Shafran, page 62) studied at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and earned his doctorate at the University of British Columbia in 2019. He now teaches cello at the Musikschule der Stadt Ulm in Germany.
SAMARA GINSBERG
(Suzuki teaching, page 28) studied with Stefan Popov at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and is now a freelance cellist and writer based in London. She is a busy session musician and arranger, and tours the world with Lincoln Center Stage.
YURI POCHEKIN
(In Focus, page 79) is a Russian-born violin maker currently based in Madrid. He has made around 300 violins, violas and cellos, and has been a jury member on violin making competitions including the Wieniawski in Poznań and the Cremona ‘Triennale’ in Italy.