Borja Bernabeu, was born in Madrid in 1971. After finishing high school in Madrid he enrolled at the University of Saint Louis in Missouri (U.S.), and graduated in 1994 with Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. Upon completing his university studies he began to focus on his true passion: building and restoring stringed musical instruments. In 1997 he received a diploma from the Red Wing Technical College in Minnesota for Guitar repair and building. In the following year he moved to Schio, Vicenza. There he worked for Manne Guitars where he repaired and built guitars. In 1998 he moved to Cremona to study at the Antonio Stradivarius School of Violin Making of Cremona. He learned building and restoration mainly from Lorenzo Marchi. In 2001, in a project involving the school, the City Council of Cremona and the Stradivarian museum, he built a reconstruction of an original mandolin by Antonio Stradivari. The copy of thisinstrument is now a part of the permanent collection of the museum Stradivariano of Cremona, a museum that exhibits a collection of tools, forms, templates and manuscripts once owned by Stradivari, as well as a selection of Italian historical instruments. In the year 2001 Mr. Bernabeu graduated from the Violin Making School in Cremona earning the Violin Maker diploma. Immediately after graduating he did some training in the shop of Silvio Levaggi. In 2002 he worked for a short period in the shop of Alberto Giordano in the town of Genoa. Mr. Bernabeu builds and restores violins, violas and cellos. The work of Mr. Bernabeu is inspired by the old classic instruments of the Cremonese tradition, from makers like Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati, and interpreted with his own personal style. Mr. Bernabeu builds a very limited number of instruments a year so he can focus on quality of sound and workmanship. He has participated with success in several international violin making competitions and has received different awards at these. In 2006, at the Violin Society of America violin making competition, he received two silver medals for violin and viola and in 2008 he received a certificate of merit for viola. He resides and works in Cremona where he has a shop located on via Divizioli 2/B
Borja Bernabeu, was born in Madrid in 1971. After finishing high school in Madrid he enrolled at the University of Saint Louis in Missouri (U.S.), and graduated in 1994 with Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. Upon completing his university studies he began to focus on his true passion: building and restoring stringed musical instruments. In 1997 he received a diploma from the Red Wing Technical College in Minnesota for Guitar repair...
Bernabeu ,Borja
