I am starting a new violin, “The Edward”. This is commission from Ed Lawrence (former Principal Violist with the Houston Ballet and Opera Orchestra). Ed has chosen a Strad model and picked out the wood to use from my stores (notice the beautiful flame in the maple for the ribs and back). We will start [...]
A couple of years ago, I made an Andrea Guarneri model viola for Ed Lawrence. Ed used to be the Principal Violist with the Houston Ballet and Opera Orchestra. He now has a thriving teaching business in Houston. Ed was kind enough to let me record him playing a brief clip. Click below to see [...]
I just delivered “The Rebecca” to Rebekah Kim (yes I have been mis-spelling her name all this time). We were all quite pleased with the end product. The tone is sonorous, powerful and amazingly balanced on every string. She makes it sound so much better than I can. Here is a clip of her playing [...]