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Biography
Lorenzo Rossi was born in Milan on April 11, 1975.
Attracted by music and nature, he is gifted with an extremely manual
skill. At the age of twenty years old, the visit to a violin maker
radically changes his life of student of Science of materials: after
having filed the waiver to the studies at the University, he immediately
commences to attend the Civica Scuola di Liuteria of Milan. In 2003
he achieves, with full marks, the Specialization Diploma in bow
instruments making; continuing the attendance of the workshops of
his masters, he deepens the knowledge of the technique, theory and
practice of the art. He also applies himself to the art of restoration
(already studied at school under the guide of M° Gabriele Negri),
in which he specializes attending the workshop of M° Carlos
Arcieri (from New York). The attendance to master classes of international
breadth, other than guarantying him a constant updating on new techniques
and materials in use, offers him the opportunity to compare different
styles and methods and leads him to develop a definite personal
taste. Among the most important master classes, “Innovative
techniques innovative for the exact reproduction of bow instruments
of historical interest” held by M° Sharon Que; “Techniques
of varnishing and antiquization of bow instruments”, held
by M° Greg Alf; “Set-up and sound adjustment” with
M° Paolo Sorgendone and Michele Mecatti (from Florence), other
than with M° Guy Rabut’s (from New York). For personal
passion approaches also the restoration of fortepianos, learning
making methods, restoration and regulation principles through a
seminar held by M° Cristopher Clarke.
In 2004 opens his own activity in Milan.
In occasion of the reopening of the “violin maker workshop”
(donation of the Bisiach family), he collaborates with the Science
and Technology Museum of Milan for the realization of didactic panels
illustrating, through pictures and inscriptions, all the phases
of the making of a violin.
He advises Paola Calvetti, author for the publisher Bompiani, who
reports in the book “Né con te né senza di te”
accurate descriptions of an antique violin and in the book “Perché
tu mi hai sorriso” the cleaning and restoring operations of
a fortepiano of the 19th century.
In 2005 he is admitted to the Association of Italian Violin Makers
(ALI) as well as to the Associazione Liuteria Parmense.
M° Rossi has participated to exhibitions reserved to professional
violin makers in Italy (Mondomusica2005, Cremona) and abroad (Frankfurt
fair 2005, Tokyo and China); his instruments are played by the musicians
of the Accademia Bizantina of Ravenna, of the Enseble of Jordi Savall,
of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, of the UECO and of the Orchestra
Giuseppe Verdi di Milano.
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