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 Why Cremona? Is the first time I have been able to bring together the artistic and poetic traditions of Cremona into one place to understand why Andrea Amati’s opportunities to develop the violin were inevitable and natural to the time and place.
Connoissership at Oxford University.
For the academic world there are deep problems that arise from historic artefacts that are untethered from a record of provenance, and the violin is
