Maker Background
Marco makes completely handmade violins, giving attention to the finest details, as well as comfort for the player.
He is always searching for new solutions. Since he was a child, he has been captured by music and by wood-working. His production regards the classical Cremonese instruments: violin, viola, cello, and double bass.
Marco Pedrini was born in Codogno in 1983. At the age of 14, he started attending the A. Stradivari International School of Violinmaking in Cremona, wherein in 2000 he received the prize "Grandi – Taglietti" as best student and wherein 2002 he obtained his diploma under Maestro Giorgio Cé. Then he attended the professional course of the Lombardy Region and, at the end of it, he did the apprenticeship at the workshop of Master Giorgio Grisales. In this workshop, he refined the techniques of the stringed instrument's construction. In 2007 he decided to open his violinmaking workshop in Castelnuovo Bocca d'Adda (LO). From November 2008, he has his workshop in the city center of Cremona. The models from which he gets the inspiration are the following: Stradivari, Guarneri, Ornati, Garimberti, and Montagnana, besides his own personal models. He makes modern instruments, but he also makes copies of antique instruments, besides making restoration works and repairs on antique instruments.
