master violin maker
Dalibor Bzirský
Contact
- Address
- Ovenecká 341/46
170 00 Praha 7
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- +420 604 244 299
- info@bzirsky-violin.cz
- Website
- www.bzirsky-violin.cz ↗
About
Dalibor Bzirský studied and worked in the Czech Republic, Italy and Switzerland. His first important teacher of both instrument making and restoration was the Náchod violin maker Jaromír Joo. In 1996 he opened his own workshop in Prague. He specialises in new instruments and copies, and in careful restoration of string instruments.
For the Swiss workshop of Claude Lebet, where he grew professionally, he restored rare instruments – among them Stradivari’s “Milanollo” violin (1728) and Andrea Amati’s “Il Portoghese” – and took part in a commission of 46 instruments for the National Opera and Ballet orchestra in Tbilisi. His instruments are played by soloists and members of leading Czech orchestras, including the Czech Philharmonic, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and the National Theatre orchestra.
He is an honorary member of the Circle of Czech Master Violinmakers and chairman of the Věnceslav Metelka Society, which organises the Prague International Violin Making Competition.
