master violin maker
Tomáš Vávra
Contact
- Address
- Lublaňská 65
120 00 Praha 2
Show on map ↗ - Phone
- +420 222 518 114
- Mobile
- +420 731 345 445
- Website
- www.housle-vavra.cz ↗
About
Tomáš Vávra was born in 1966 and is the fourth generation of the Prague Vávra family, which has made violins without interruption since 1870. In 1980 he began his apprenticeship with his father Karel Vávra and received his certificate in 1983. In 1991 he spent a year in Sweden with the violin maker Vladimír Váňa, one of his father’s pupils.
He works with his father in the family workshop in Lublaňská Street in Prague’s Vinohrady. He makes new violins and violas on Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesù models from rare wood bought in the 1930s by his grandfather Karel Vávra, and restores both instruments and bows. He is a member of the Circle of Czech Master Violinmakers.
