Photo credit: Daniel Lane
Lutherie 2025
SATURDAY 3rd MAY 2025
Newark Town Hall, Market Place
Newark-on-Trent NG24 1DU
This year’s Lutherie conference will be a must for violin makers
To book, go to Eventbrite
Friday 2nd May 2025
Lutherie Student Forum
The student forum is open to registered students and recent graduates.
RAB Trust tool sale
Friday night social
To book, go to Eventbrite
Lutherie Day Saturday 3rd May 2025:
09.30 - 10.30: Registration, tea/coffee, traders
10.30 Paul Belin: An introduction to 3D scanning and CNC routing
11.30 - 12.00: Tea/coffee, traders
12.00: Philip Ihle: Making copies - a moving target: DNA Strad
13.00 - 14.15: Lunch is included in your booking
14.15: Florian Leonhard: How to present the archetypal violins of Guarneri del Gesù
15.15 - 15.45 Tea/coffee, traders
15.45 Mira Gruszow and Gideon Baumblatt: Two brains and four hands
16.45 Close
To book, go to Eventbrite
Student/Recent Graduate Forum
Our Student Forum will take place at Newark Town Hall on Friday 2nd May 2025
• Also featuring a Tool Sale by the RAB Trust www.rabtrust.org 10.00 - 11.00
where students can buy donated tools, books and materials at well below market price
Introduction to instrument recognition with Philip Brown and Geoff Denyer
11.00 - 12.30 Instrument recognition, presentation: Philip and Geoff will talk you through the basics of instrument recognition; how to evaluate an instrument, characteristics of different schools/nationalities etc.
1.30 - 3.30 Instrument recognition, practical session: Students will be split into small groups and will be given a number of instruments to study and attempt to identify. Philip and Geoff will be on hand to offer guidance.
Full details of the forum are here
Venue: Newark Town Hall, Market Place, Newark-on-Trent NG24 1DU
The forum is open to current students of violin making and those who finished their training no earlier than 2023.
It is a free event but you must book your place via Eventbrite
Traders
An important fixture of Lutherie from its inception.
Full details of traders will appear here later.
If you would like to book a trader’s table, please contact us: admin@lutherieuk.org
Charity partners
It’s a tradition of Lutherie to support a charity; this year we support Luthiers sans Frontières. Click here for more about their work and how you can help.
Newark School of Violin Making The first 50 years - 1972-2022
Edited by Helen Michetschläger
This booklet details the history of the school from its inception to the present day. Illustrated with many photographs from the 50 years of the school, it covers all aspects including how it all started, the impact the school has had on the violin making world, and its high and low points. It is 48 pages in length, A4 size, full colour throughout.
Contents:
The history of Newark School of Violin Making by Ariane Todes
Timeline: Major dates in the history of the school
Map and chart: Representation of former Newark students worldwide
List of staff at NSVM 1972-2023
List of students from 1972-2023
Interviews with former students
The booklet is now on sale to anywhere in the world for £18 plus postage and packing, and will be available at the conference.
