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Contributors
J. PAUL ANDERSON
(Making Matters, page 68) is an English violin maker based in Vienna. He studied violin playing in Salzburg, worked as a violin dealer in London and New York, and learnt violin making in the Cremona workshop of Riccardo Bergonzi.
VLADIMIROS SOROKIN-ANDREOU
(Decorating a bow frog, page 54) was a pupil of Arthur Bultitude, a highly qualified bow maker who worked at W.E. Hill and Sons in London, UK. He lives and works in Larnaca, Cyprus, and goes by the moniker of ‘Monomax’.
ALAN BEAVITT
(Trade Secrets, page 62) made his first violin while still at school. After working as a research physicist in Australia and England, he moved to Scotland in 1975 to pursue his first passion of violin making. He has made well over a hundred instruments to date.
DAVID DESIMPELAERE
(Technique, page 76s) is principal bass with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. He is also professor of double bass at the Hochschule Luzern, Switzerland, and at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium.
THOMAS GREGORY
(Opinion, page 21) is the creator of the Vamoosh series for young instrumentalists. He is a prolific composer of educational music for a wide range of ages and ensembles. He studied the cello at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at the University of Michigan.
BENJAMIN SHUTE
(Geminiani’s scales, page 48) is a period and modern violinist, composer, musicologist and teacher based in Dunfermline, UK. Formerly a concertmaster of the Boston Chamber Orchestra, he has held university posts in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, and currently teaches at the University of St Andrews Music Centre.