domenica 14 novembre 2010

Edward Gaut - Viola d'amore: copy after Lambert, 2004

Edward Gaut Violins6 Chatsworth RoadArnos ValeBristolBS4 3EY, UK+44 (0)117 3079 785

Viola D’Amore

Please note this is not for sale and is only on the site as an example of my work. If you would like it replicating for you please contact me to discuss making you one on commission and view my commissions page.

This is an instrument I was commissioned in 2004 by a customer unable to find a Viola D’amore that suited his requirements. The original instrument is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is made by the French maker ‘Lambert’. As it happens my customer works at this particular museum and sees the original on a regular basis. This for him held a vision of what he desired and was the instrument of choice to be copied by myself.

The instrument I made for him is following the same out line and measurements. It has 7 playing strings and 7 sympathetic strings which pass around the back of the peg box, under the finger board, bridge and tail piece to a decorative ivory plate and pins on the rib. The outline is so graceful and uncomplicated without the modern day corners. The front and back are very curvaceous and not only is the out line shown off in it’s glory by the purfling but also a band of rosewood on it’s edges making it very prominent.

The neck is very long as it allows for the 14 pegs it needs to accommodate. On the side of the peg box it has a scribed line and also a flower stamp printed along its contours. On the back of the peg box it has more of the same and the carving of a shell in the heal.

When commissioning an instrument it gives you freedom to have exactly what you want. In this particular example the head on the very end of the neck was replaced with a likeness of my customers partner, which is quite romantic as it is a Viola D’amore (the viola of love).

Click here to see more photos of this Viola D’Amour.

If you would like an instrument commissioned especially for you please call me or email to discuss your requirements.

Olivier Calmeille - Viola d'amore

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Mauro Righini

Born in Milan, he studied violin and viola at the Scuola Civica of Music of his city with Armando Burattin (viola solo in the Teatro alla Scala); he got his master degree in viola at the Conservatory in Milan. He also took master classes with Elisa Pegreffi, Piero Farulli, Franco Rossi and Dino Asciolla (Quartetto Italiano); with the Hungarian pianist Gyorgy Sebok at the International master classes in Ernen (Switzerland).
He played as first viola in the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana in Fiesole in 1980.
Along the years he took part in the most important European Festivals, concerts in Europa, Canada, USA, Japan and South America.

In 1991 he founded the Quartetto Modì with the main aim to study the still unknown quartett repertoire of the classical and romantic period playing on original instruments; with the Quartetto Modi he recorded the Paisiello quartets (Bongiovanni) for the first time.

Alongside his activity as an viola player, Mauro Righini has dedicated himself to the revival of the viola d’amore, playing as a solo in Italy and Europe.

Since 1984 Mauro Righini has been teaching viola, quartet and chamber music at the State Conservatory. He is teaching viola at the Conservatory “G.Verdi” in Turin at present.
Besides this activity he is also teaching baroque viola and viola d’amore and cooperates with the International Music Academy in Milan and he is member of the Viola d'Amore Society of America.

He plays a viola manufactured by Giacomo Zanoli (Verona, 1749).

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Nato a Milano, ha studiato violino e viola alla Scuola Civica di Musica con Armando Burattin, diplomandosi in viola al Conservatorio di Milano. Si è perfezionato con Elisa Pegreffi, Piero Farulli, Franco Rossi e Dino Asciolla (Quartetto Italiano) e con il pianista ungherese Gyorgy Sebok ai Corsi Internazionali di Ernen (Svizzera).
Prima viola dell'Orchestra Giovanile Italiana a Fiesole nel 1980, svolge un’intensa attività concertistica in Italia, Europa, Israele, Canada, U.S.A., Giappone e Sud America, collaborando con vari complessi e suonando per le maggiori associazioni concertistiche italiane ed estere.

Collabora, come prima viola e viola d'amore, con l'Ensemble Werther di Lione, Ensemble Baroque di Nizza, Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, Accademia Litta, Orchestra Barocca Italiana, Il canto di Orfeo, Ensemble Pro Musica (Genova), Ensemble Glob’Arte (Germania), Teatro Regio di Torino, Milano Classica.

Nel 1991 ha fondato il Quartetto Modì dedicandosi in particolare alla ricerca del repertorio quartettistico classico e romantico italiano sconosciuto e utilizzando strumenti originali: con questo complesso, oltre a numerosi concerti in Italia, Svizzera e Germania, ha registrato in prima assoluta alcuni quartetti di Paisiello (CD Bongiovanni).

Mauro Righini si è dedicato inoltre allo studio della viola d'amore: con questo strumento si è esibito come solista in diverse città italiane ed europee.

Docente di Conservatorio dal 1984, ha insegnato viola, quartetto e musica da camera: attualmente è titolare della cattedra diviola al Conservatorio "G.Verdi" di Torino; collabora inoltre con l'Accademia Internazionale della Musica di Milano ed è membro della Viola d'Amore Society of America.

Suona su una viola costruita da Giacomo Zanoli, Verona 1749.

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