A violin by Andrea Ortona, 2026 SOLD! Register for the next one!

Price range: £50,000+

 

Andrea Ortona works closely with violinists to create instruments of exceptional power and musicality. He makes exact replica copies and new instruments. His passionate attention to acoustic and aesthetic detail produces violins, violas and cellos fit for the concert hall and more intimate performance spaces.
Over the last thirty years he has worked in Cremona, Venice, America and England. His technique is a unique personal combination of the old Italian violin making tradition in which he trained, and modern acoustic research.
He believes in listening with care and attention both to his clients and their chosen instruments.
He trained at the Violin Making School of Cremona. He then set up a workshop in Venice and in the early nineties, he moved to England. In 1994, 1995 he worked with C. Hutchins on acoustic research in New Jersey and from 2001 for F. Leonard. Working  with J&A Beare  2010 – 20 and after this period full time making and doing set ups for Sean Bishop
Between 2007 and 2012, he taught varnish retouch at the Violin Making School of Cremona and in 2012, he ran a course on “ relationship of the free plates and the acoustic properties of the finished instruments” . He has given lectures and run workshops in Italy,  Austria and UK.
He divides his time between his studios in Genoa,Italy and in Oxfordshire, conducting research, making new instruments and acoustic set-ups.

Sean Bishop ” I have sold many new instruments over the 30 years plus as a dealer. BUT, none have sounded better than an Ortona violin! We are extremely lucy to be getting approx 4 instruments per year. This first violin I sold in it’s first week to the leader of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Amyn Merchant. He is loving his new violin and already has played solo with it. Please register with us if you want to try the next violin!”

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