master violin maker
Mgr. Pavel Vojta
making and repairing string instruments
Contact
- Address
- Taussigova 1150
182 00 Praha 8
Show on map ↗ - Phone
- +420 723 046 808
- houslevojta@gmail.com
- Website
- www.pavelvojta.cz ↗
About
Pavel Vojta was born in Prague, and the violin has accompanied him all his life. He started at a music school at the age of seven, and a few years later he was admitted to the Prague Music Grammar School in the violin class of Jiří Novák. In 1999 he moved on to the Prague Conservatory, where he studied the violin with František Pospíšil and chamber music with Jaroslav Ruis.
After graduating from the Prague Conservatory he continued studying the violin and music theory at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in the class of the renowned violinist Professor Jiří Tomášek, earning his master’s degree there in 2011.
He took up violin making at the age of twenty-five, after meeting the Prague violin maker Václav Lanc, with whom he served his apprenticeship. He then spent three years studying violin making at the violin making school in Cheb, after which the renowned Czech maker Dalibor Bzirský became his teacher.
Pavel Vojta regularly takes part in violin making competitions. His greatest success so far is 1st and 2nd place at the tone competition for violin makers in Cheb in 2023.
His instruments are played by professional musicians as well as conservatory students.
He works in his own workshop in Prague 8, where besides making new instruments he also sets up and restores them.
