Stefan-Peter Greiner

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Stefan-Peter Greiner (born 1966 in Stuttgart) is a German luthier [1] [2] residing in Zurich. He also builds violins.

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Career

Greiner built his first violin at the age of fourteen. He completed his training in Bonn.

In 2013 he moved his workshop from Bonn to London, where he worked with several renowned experts and auction houses. Since 2018, Greiner has been managing the violin making company W. E. Hill & Sons, London, together with Robert Brewer Young.

His goal was to build instruments that sounded close to a singing voice, [3] with focus on the range from 2000 to 4000 Hz. During a longstanding partnership with Remagen physicist Heinrich Dünnwald, who had acoustically analyzed over 1300 violins, Greiner felt that he had succeeded in coming close to the sound of centuries-old Guarneri and Stradivari instruments.[ according to whom? ]

Some of his more notable customers included Leonidas Kavakos, Kim Kashkashian, Bruno Monsaingeon, Frédéric Pelassy, Christian Tetzlaff, [3] [4] the Keller Quartet, and members of the Hagen Quartet and the Alban Berg Quartet. [5] He received the 2003 Rheingau Musik Preis, an award initiated in 1994 by the Rheingau Music Festival. Over 100 CDs featuring his instruments have been released. [6] [7]

Greiner currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland.

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References

  1. ↑ Dagmar Giersberg (July 2006). "In Direct Competition with Stradivari". Goethe Institute. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  2. ↑ Jutta Wasserrab (11 June 2007). "Acclaimed German Violin-Maker Tops Italian Masters". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
  3. 1 2 "Violin-making: Older and richer". The Economist . Vol. 393, no. 8662. 19 December 2009. pp. 57–60. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
  4. ↑ "5 World Class Soloists Actively Promoting Violin Making | MyLuthier Blog". www.myluthier.co. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  5. ↑ "Artists & Recordings". Stefan-Peter Greiner. Archived from the original on December 7, 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  6. ↑ "Chamber Music Recordings on Greiner instruments". Stefan-Peter Greiner. Archived from the original on February 6, 2013. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  7. ↑ "Solo Recordings on Greiner instruments". Stefan-Peter Greiner. Archived from the original on February 6, 2013. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
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