INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN MAKING COMPETITION
PRAGUE, 3.–7. June 2025
| 10:00-11:00 | Patrick Robin - Workshop practices: back & belly thicknesses, sound-holes and bass bar |
| 11:30-12:30 | Bohdan Warchal - Innovation in string making |
| 12:30-14:00 | break for lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 | Ing. Zdeněk Otčenášek Ph.D. - The vibration pattern comparison of violin having different sound evaluation |
Patrick Robin is a world's foremost violin maker. He lives and works near Angers, in France. He has won numerous prizes in international violin making competitions and is now much sought after as a competition judge. He has a strong personal style, emphasised by his use of his own models.
Bohdan Warchal is an important Slovak string maker, son of the famous violinist and founder of the Slovak Chamber Orchestra. Bohdan Warchal jr. is himself an experienced violin player and he established the renowned family string making business in 2003.
Ing. Zdeněk Otčenášek, Ph.D. leads the Musical Acoustic Research Centre at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The Centre's extensive experience in physics and acoustics supported by a studio with first-class equipment, means that we can look forward to fascinating insights into the mystery of violin sound.
