Giorgio Scolari was born in Casalbuttano, in the province of Cremona, on 5 January 1952, and lives and develops his activity as a master violin-maker in via Virgilio n. 1, in Cremona.He attended the International School for Violin Makers in Cremona (IPIALL), where he earned his Diploma in 1970. He was a pupil of Pietro Sgarabotto and Gio Batta Morassi, the one and the other featuring amongst the protagonists of the renaissance of violin-making in Cremona.From 1970 to 1976, Giorgio Scolari worked in Morassi workshop in Via Mantova; later he opened his own laboratory in via Trecchi. At present he works, together with his brother Daniele, in their new laboratory in via Virgilio, and is constantly researching new forms, more broadly sonorous, and mastering the technology of wood and the chemistry of varnishes.From 1974 onwards he has been a teacher in the laboratory in the school where he was an attentive and conscientious pupil, where he is also assistant headmaster.He has studied piano and organ and directs choral groups and instrumental ones; he also directs the orchestra of the International School.His production is inspired by the great Cremonese masters of the past, using Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri as models along with his own, and principally his own, models.Each instrument he constructs is the object of careful research and specific evaluation as far as choosing the wood, the cut and the sculpting are concerned, with particular care taken over the thicknesses of the sound boxes and backs, in search of maximum acoustic values.His varnish, produced in his own laboratory, is brilliant, soft and transparent, orange-gold in colour with a yellow undercoat, that evidences the marbling of the maple-wood and the veining of the sound box and is made up of essences and resins that are wholly natural.The instruments that the master violin maker Scolari constructs are mainly violins, violas and cellos, devoting his efforts, upon request, to other string instruments such as double-basses, leg-held violas, guitars, lutes and so on. He also devotes his time to repair-work, with specific competence, of any bow instrument.His workshop, sited in the historical centre of Cremona, is the destination for many pupils of violin-making and many musicians to whom he dedicates some of his time, not begrudging advice on the art of violin construction, in an open-hearted rapport that is rich in human facets...His thoughts on artArt is the ability to translate one own emotions, impulses and sensitivity into sounds, harmonies, rhythms, colours or images; in a word the need to give life and form to one own inner world. His thoughts on lifeThe only joy in the world is to communicate. It is beautiful to live, because living is always beginning again, at every instant. BibliographyClaude Lebet, Dictionnaire universel des liuthers, Les Amis de la musique - editions Bruxelles;Gualtiero Nicolini Quarant'anni di storia della Scuola Internazionale di Liuteria;Gualtiero Nicolini Liutai italiani di ieri e di oggi, ed. Stradivari, CremonaGualtiero Nicolini - Giorgio Scolari, Come nasce un violino, ed. Stradivari, Cremona. Giorgio Scolari was born in Casalbuttano, in the province of Cremona, on 5 January 1952, and lives and develops his activity as a master violin-maker in via Virgilio n. 1, in Cremona.He attended the International School for Violin Makers in Cremona (IPIALL), where he earned his Diploma in 1970. He was a pupil of Pietro Sgarabotto and Gio Batta Morassi, the one and the other featuring amongst the protagonists of the renaissance of violin-making in Cremona.From 1970 to 1976, Giorgio Scolari worked in Morassi workshop in Via Mantova; later he opened his own laboratory in via Trecchi. At present he works, together with his brother Daniele, in their new laboratory in via Virgilio, and is constantly researching new forms, more broadly sonorous, and mastering the technology of wood and the chemistry of varnishes.From 1974 onwards he has been a teacher in the laboratory in the school where he was an attentive and conscientious pupil, where he is also assistant headmaster.He has studied piano and organ and directs choral groups and instrumental ones; he also directs the orchestra of the International School. His production is inspired by the great Cremonese masters of the past, using Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri as models along with his own, and principally his own, models.Each instrument he constructs is the object of careful research and specific evaluation as far as choosing the wood, the cut and the sculpting are concerned, with particular care taken over the thicknesses of the sound boxes and backs, in search of maximum acoustic values.His varnish, produced in his own laboratory, is brilliant, soft and transparent, orange-gold in colour with a yellow undercoat, that evidences the marbling of the maple-wood and the veining of the sound box and is made up of essences and resins that are wholly natural.The instruments that the master violin maker Scolari constructs are mainly violins, violas and cellos, devoting his efforts, upon request, to other string instruments such as double-basses, leg-held violas, guitars, lutes and so on. He also devotes his time to repair-work, with specific competence, of any bow instrument. His workshop, sited in the historical centre of Cremona, is the destination for many pupils of violin-making and many musicians to whom he dedicates some of his time, not begrudging advice on the art of violin construction, in an open-hearted rapport that is rich in human facets... His thoughts on artArt is the ability to translate one own emotions, impulses and sensitivity into sounds, harmonies, rhythms, colours or images; in a word the need to give life and form to one own inner world. His thoughts on lifeThe only joy in the world is to communicate. It is beautiful to live, because living is always beginning again, at every instant. BibliographyClaude Lebet, Dictionnaire universel des liuthers, Les Amis de la musique - editions Bruxelles;Gualtiero Nicolini Quarant'anni di storia della Scuola Internazionale di Liuteria;Gualtiero Nicolini Liutai italiani di ieri e di oggi, ed. Stradivari, CremonaGualtiero Nicolini - Giorgio Scolari, Come nasce un violino, ed. Stradivari, Cremona.
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