Jan Hus Bursík ml.

About

Jan Hus Bursík Jr. was born in Brno in 1976, the elder son of master Jan Hus Bursík. He trained as a violin maker in Luby u Chebu in 1993–1996 and has worked in his father’s workshop since his youth, both restoring and building instruments – he made his first instrument at fourteen. In 2004 he completed an internship with Tomáš Pilař in Hradec Králové together with his brother Bronislav, and three years later he became a member of the Circle of Czech Master Violinmakers.

He makes master violins and violas on Stradivari and Guarneri models. At the Mittenwald international competition he placed 13th in 2001, 10th of 165 in 2005 and 15th of 180 in 2010, and in 2014 his viola placed 14th there. He has also competed in Cremona (2003) and Poznań (2006). In 2013, together with his father and brother, he built the five-string violin “Milanolo” for Milan Paľa.