My friend Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Viotti Lecturer in Performance Studies at the Royal Academy of Music approached me to do a joint film project funded by Research England’s Knowledge Exchange programme. I thought that would be a great idea but it would go further if we took the project to Newark School of Violin Making.…

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Violin Society of America lectures focussed around Andrea Amati and where it all begun. To contribute to the rare instruments exhibition I brought the 1572 Andrea Amati violin and a collection of books of poetry, history and classics published in Cremona during Andrea Amati’s lifetime. My lecture on…