Bronislav Bursík

About

Bronislav Bursík was born in Brno in 1979, the younger son of master Jan Hus Bursík. From the age of five he learned the violin with Professor Kotmel while getting to know the work in his father’s workshop – he finished his first master instrument, on a Stradivari model, at fifteen. After graduating from the Moravian Grammar School he passed his final exams at the violin making school in Luby u Chebu and developed his skills during an internship with Vladimír and Tomáš Pilař in Hradec Králové. He also studied at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University (BA 2009), including a semester at the Universidad de Murcia.

He makes violins, violas and cellos on Stradivari and Guarneri models. In Mittenwald in 2005 his viola placed 19th; in Poznań in 2011 his violin took 2nd place for tone, and that year he also competed at the Étienne Vatelot competition in Paris. In 2011 he lectured on the history of Moravian violin making at the conference of the Entente Internationale des Maîtres Luthiers et Archetiers d’Art in Prague. In 2012 he passed his master examination in the workshop of Jan Špidlen and became a member of the Circle of Czech Master Violinmakers.