In 2005 I started the “Violin Expo” project with the aim of taking a closer look at international contemporary violin making. For many years I had visited violin makers in Europe and looked closely at their work and tried it out. I then set up a permanent sales exhibition in my shop that showed selected instruments from various violin makers. In order to make these instruments accessible to a wider audience, I decided to portray 80 of these instruments/violin makers and publish them in two volumes. Musicians have the opportunity to get an idea of the violin maker and his instruments before visiting Munich, Cremona or Paris. Of course, the tonal qualities can still only be experienced live. The great interest in this publication as well as the increasing demand for very good new instruments encouraged me to delve deeper into this subject. Today, however, I have essentially reduced the pool of instruments to a core of those violin makers who have parameters such as small editions, a high level of sound and impressive artistic significance (only my own models with full varnish and no antiques) and a proven, interesting increase in value. I will write more about these instruments later. The violin makers shown are provided with portraits by Jan Röhrmann, who also took the photos of the instruments. The individual violin makers in the CVM books are listed in detail here:
Contemporary Violin Makers
Volume I
* Bärbel Bellinghausen
* Matthieu Besseling
* Raffaello di Biagio
* Alfred Binner
* Denis Caban
* Scott Cao
* Pierre Chaubert
* Alessandro Ciciliati
* Ulrike Dederer
* Sibylle Fehr-Borchardt
* Cristiano Ferrazzi
* Lorenzo Frignani
* Thomas Goldfuss
* Giorgio Grisales
* Boris Haug
* Haide Lin
* Jay Ifshin
* Il Hun Jeong
* Lázló Lakatos
* Giovanni Lazzaro
* Günter H. Lobe
* Jürgen Manthey
* Igor Moroder
* Gianni Norcia
* Per S. Ovesen
* Marco Imer Piccinotti
* Luca Primon
* Oliver Radke
* Hyung Su Rhee
* Romy Rode
* Christian Sager
* Wolfgang Schiele
* Andrea Schudtz
* Eduard Schwen
* Franco Simeoni
* Thomas Stöhr
* Francesco Tarchi
* Germain Trumpf
* Thomas van der Heyd
* Julia van der Waerden
Contemporary Violin Makers
Volume II
* Gregg Alf
* Elena Bardella
* Jan Bartos
* Paul Belin
* Marcello Bellei
* Jan Bobak
* Yuri Buchagin
* Roberto Cavagnoli
* Agustin Clemente
* Stefano Conia
* Charles Coquet
* Tony Echavidre
* Frank Eickmeyer
* Peter Erben
* Kevin Gentges
* Fabien Gram
* Andreas Haensel
* Arveen Iskandarian
* Beate Kienitz
* Konrad Kohlert
* Felix Krafft
* Marcin Krupa
* Christophe Landon
* Michael Ledfuss
* Barbara Piccinotti
* Peter Paul Prier
* Till Riecke
* Mattia Riva
* Jurriaan van Roon
* Lorenzo Rossi
* Felix Scheit
* Cornelius Schneider-Marfels
* Saskia Schouten
* Davide Sora
* Claudio Testoni
* Thorsten Theis
* Francesco Toto
* Günter Waldau
* Hendrik Woldring