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2024 Annual meeting and Gala dinner of Friends of Stradivari

2024 Annual Meeting e Gala Dinner of Friends of Stradivari

The annual meeting and Gala Dinner of Friends of Stradivari, has taken place in the wonderful Palazzo Pallavicino in Cremona. Participants arrived from different Italian cities and from abroad. During the dinner Paolo Bodini, President of Friends of Stradivari and Virginia Villa, General Director of MdV, greeted and thanked the guest for their participation.

After dinner the President gave a short speech about the network’s activities and awarded the Gold and Silver members.

26 February 2025|Senza categoria|

Stradivari Hegedüs 1692 violin on show

Stradivari Hegedüs 1692 violin on show

The Hegedüs violin, made by Antonio Stradivari around 1692, is on display from tomorrow Friday 22 September in Cremona, at Museo del Violino, to which it is temporarily entrusted by a private collector as part of the friends of Stradivari project.

20 October 2023|Senza categoria|

2023 Annual meeting and Gala dinner of Friends of Stradivari

2023 Annual Meeting e Gala Dinner of Friends of Stradivari

The annual meeting and Gala Dinner of Friends of Stradivari, has taken place in the wonderful Palazzo Pallavicino in Cremona. Participants arrived from different Italian cities and from abroad. During the dinner Paolo Bodini, President of Friends of Stradivari and Virginia Villa, General Director of MdV, greeted and thanked the guest for their participation.

After dinner the President gave a short speech about the network’s activities and awarded the Gold and Silver members.

4 October 2023|Senza categoria|

Stradivari Tyrrell 1717 violin on show

Stradivari Tyrrell 1717 violin on show

From Saturday 28 January to Sunday 5 February, the collections of the Violin Museum in Cremona will be enriched by a new, extraordinary masterpiece. Indeed, it will be possible to admire and listen to Antonio Stradivari’s Tyrrell 1717 violin. The excellent construction qualities and the excellent state of conservation led the Hills, well-known lutherie experts, to define the instrument, now belonging to a private collection and exhibited thanks to J&A Beare and in collaboration with the J&A Beare Scientific Research Department, “one of the best examples of the Master’s work”. It is no coincidence that […]

31 January 2023|Senza categoria|

2022 Annual meeting and Gala dinner of Friends of Stradivari

2022 Annual Meeting e Gala Dinner of Friends of Stradivari

The annual meeting and Gala Dinner of Friends of Stradivari, has taken place in the wonderful setting of the monumental courtyard of Palazzo Fodri in Cremona. Participants arrived from different Italian cities and from abroad. During the dinner Paolo Bodini, President of Friends of Stradivari and Virginia Villa, General Director of MdV, greeted and thanked the guest for their participation.

After dinner the President gave a short speech about the network’s activities and awarded the Gold and Silver members.

4 January 2023|Senza categoria|

2021 Annual meeting and Gala dinner of Friends of Stradivari

2021 Annual Meeting e Gala Dinner of Friends of Stradivari

The annual meeting and Gala Dinner of Friends of Stradivari, has taken place in the wonderful setting of the monumental courtyard of Palazzo Fodri in Cremona. Participants arrived from different Italian cities and from abroad. During the dinner Paolo Bodini, President of Friends of Stradivari and Virginia Villa, General Director of MdV, greeted and thanked the guest for their participation.

After dinner the President gave a short speech about the network’s activities and awarded the Gold and Silver members.

2 October 2021|Senza categoria|

Special concert with violin Stradivari “Lam ex Scotland” 1734 – in collaboration with Si-Yo Music

22 September 2021|Senza categoria|

Award cerimony of XVI Triennale International violinmaking competition Antonio Stradivari

Jury of the Triennale competition 2021 . On center President Paolo Bodini and General Director of Museo del Violino Virginia Villa. Below the Staff

Triennale Competition 2021

17 September 2021|Senza categoria|

Stradiversity…but all together!

On October 24th the “friends of Stradivari” annual meeting took place in the bautiful Aditorium Giovanni Arvedi.

Thanks to our “friends” support, over the past few years we were able to promote an incredible “hospitaity” project. Within this project we have organized exhibitions in our museum with rare instruments belonging to the Cremonese classical school, from all around the world. We also had exhibitions abroad (in Russia, USA…) with our instruments.

This year it was possible to attend to the event both in person and online, in order to include as many friends as possible, that due to the global health situation […]

4 November 2020|Senza categoria|

A new violin at the Museo del Violino:Amaryllis Fleming, Girolamo Amati 1600c.

On Saturday, September 5th , a new masterpiece has arrived at the Museo del Violino, Cremona.

In fact since last Saturday the five-stringed cello Amaryllis Fleming, made by Girolamo Amati approximately in 1600. As you can gess from its name, it used to belong to Amaryllis Fleming, famous musician and English teacher, half-sister of James Bond author, Ian Fleming.

In the Fifties Fleming she studied Baroque Musique performance practice: she frequently played Bach’s Sixth Cello Suite on this cello. On Saturday, Octber 10th, at 12, in the Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi it will be played by the Dutch musician Jobine Siekman.

This instrument has the typical features of the instruments […]

9 September 2020|Senza categoria|

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