Biography
Sebastiano Ferrari started violin making in 2009, he began his studies at the Milan Violin Making School. He graduated with honour under the guidance of Paola Vecchio, Gabriele Negri, Lorenzo Rossi and Professor Claudio Canevari. During the last year of school he did an internship in a violin maker workshop.
Thanks to Professor Claudio Canevari he had the opportunity to collaborate on several projects in collaboration with the Arvedi Laboratory in the University of Pavia and Violin Museum of Cremona (https://www.museodelviolino.org/).
In 2014 he won a scholarship, awarded by the Cologni Foundation for Art and Crafts, for a collaborative project with the Scientific Laboratories of the Violin Museum of Cremona.
From 2016 to 2019 he teaches in the Violin Making School of Milan, managing the construction and varnishing classes.
Since 2022 he teaches in the San Filippo Violin Making Academy in Turin, managing the Violin Making Course and Cello Making Masterclass.
Workshop and projects:
Workshop
Acoustic measurement in workshop; measurement of violin sound spectrum; fingerboard, tailpiece and bridge intonation; diagnosis problems and instrument characterization through rigidity and weight.
Relator: George Stoppani.
(Cremona 2013)
Workshop
The strings influence in bow instruments.
Relator: Franz Klanner (Thomastik-Infeld technician)
(Cremona 2013)
Workshop
Varnish studies in historical Italian bow instruments; macro and microscopic analysis on wood samples at different stages of varnishing.
Relator: Brigitte Brandmair, curator of “Stradivari Varnish” book.
(Cremona 2013).
Workshop
“Knowledge for conservation”. International science workshop on bow musical instruments.
Relators:
•Marco Malagodi: University of Pavia, Arvedi Research Laboratory, scientific consultant.
•Claudio Canevari: University of Pavia, Arvedi Research Laboratory, scientific consultant, Violin Making school of Milan.
•Augusto Sarti: teacher of electronics and information department of Polytechnic University of Milan.
•Gianni Ferretti: Vice rector of Polo territoriale di Cremona, Polytechnic University of Milan.
•Mats Tinnsten: Mid-Sweden University.
•Enrico Ravina: University of Genoa.
•Jean Philippe Echad: Researcher in the restoration laboratory of Museum of Music in Paris
•Jayson Dobney: musical Instruments curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
•Frank P. Bar: Director of instrument collection in the Nuremberg Musical Instrument Museum.
•Arian Sheets: Curator of stringed instruments collection in the National Museum of Music (University of South Dakota)
(Cremona 2013)
Projects
Collaboration on the project, conducted by the Arvedi Research Laboratory hosted by University of Pavia, for materials classification used in linings and filling of Neapolitan mandolins from half of eighteenth century. Photos of analysis and samples withdrawals for subsequent analysis with electron microscopy and spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), micro-fluorescence (Microft-IR) and stratigraphy.
(Pavia 2013)
Projects
Collaboration on the project, conducted by Polytechnic University of Milan, hosted in Violin Museum of Cremona: investigation and ontologies studies for classification of sound.
(Cremona 2014)
Projects
Collaboration on the project, conducted by Polytechnic University of Milan and Arvedi Research Laboratory, hosted in Violin Museum of Cremona: looking for correlations between the structural elements of the violin with the timbre and acoustic of the instrument.
(Cremona 2014)
Workshop
Violas of Antonio Stradivari at Museo del Violino
Relators:Bruno Giuranna and Bruce Carlson.
(Cremona 2015)
Workshop
Instruments by Guarneri del Gesu at Museo del Violino.
Relator: Gregg Alf
(Cremona 2015)
Workshop
Instruments of Giovanni Battista Guadagnini at Museo del Violino.
Relator: Eric Blot
(Cremona 2015)
Workshop
Violin arching design and construction method by Robert Zuger.
Relator: Robert Zuger
(Cremona 2017)
Services
Warranty and maintenance
The instrument will be provided with a certificate of authenticity, it contains the technical characteristics of the instrument, photographs and the materials provenance.
To achieve all the necessary setup and to ensure the optimal instrument performance, a support period with the musician is granted. The musician will be guided in routine controls and maintenance operations, to ensure the proper functioning of all parts of the instrument.
Rent
Different kind of instruments are available for rent, for the needs of students and professionals.
(For more information fill the contact form)
Partners
With the aim of creating a “green workshop” and to minimize the environmental impact produced by this job, several ethic choices are applied:
– The workshop is exclusively powered by solar energy, wind energy is used for website hosting;
– All commonly used paper are recycled or comes from certified FSC sources;
– Whenever possible, woods used in the construction process comes from certified forests;
– The varnishes used for the instruments are only made from natural raw materials (alcohol or oil based varnish with resins and gum) ;
– Every time an instrument is sold, 2% of its value is given for reforestation. One of these three different organization can be chosen for a donation. (Once the donation is made, you will receive a certificate from the organization of your choice)
Protecting nature. Preserving life.
The Nature Conservancy mission is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. Our vision is a world where the diversity of life thrives, and people act to conserve nature for its own sake and its ability to fulfill our needs and enrich our lives.
Plant-a-tree partner.
It helps communities around the world in planting trees, through seed distribution, agroforestry training and in-country technical assistance. Till now the organization has planted over 65 million trees worldwide in 30 countries and has served over 11,000 villages around the world.
Saving rainforest. Protecting life.
By providing land, training, capital and equipment, this organization aims to protect lands that conserve threatened species and endangered ecosystems.
Contacts
mobile: +39 3338815421
mail: sebastianoferrari@hotmail.it
or you can fill the form below.
You can find me here: Via Accademia delle Scienze 11, (in front of the Egyptian Museum), 10123 Torino TO (Italy IT) Get directions here
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