Amorim Fine Violins is a family business, just like the workshops of Stradivari and Guarneri. Founded in 2001 by the renowned violin maker Luiz Amorim and his wife, Betina Schreiner, bringing their fine arts experience into the violin-making field.
For more than ten years now, their sons Luan and Gaian have joined the firm, bringing strength to make it one of the most innovative and fast-growing companies in the violin business. The company is renowned worldwide for violin making, restoration, expertise, instrument condition analysis, and sale of masterpieces of the violin family.
The Amorim family is headquartered since 2018 in Cremona, the city where the classical Italian school of violin making was formed. What began as their work has grown into an atelier where the next generation continues to expand it: Luan and Gaian Amorim now hold central roles in the company, bringing new energy to the workshop while preserving the values that define it — precision, responsibility, discretion, and care for every instrument and every client.
The same hands and the same eye that build a new instrument from raw wood are the ones that assess a three-hundred-year-old masterpiece. That dual practice, making and caring for fine instruments side by side every day, is what gives our judgement its depth. Before any recommendation, sale, appraisal or advisory process, the work begins at the bench: observing, measuring, comparing, listening.
At the heart of the atelier is the daily making of violins, violas, and cellos by Luiz Amorim, entirely by hand and in the Cremonese tradition. Alongside this work, each instrument is carefully examined, restored, adjusted, documented, and prepared for appraisal, acquisition, or consignment. The atelier also welcomes musicians, collectors, and institutions for trials, consultations, and direct guidance from our specialists.
To work with fine instruments in Cremona is to operate within a living tradition. For five centuries this city has set the standard against which every fine violin in the world is measured, and the streets around the atelier are the ones walked by the masters who defined the art.
Being based here is not a matter of address. It is a matter of access, and standard. The atelier sits within a working community of luthiers, scholars, archives and tradition that exists nowhere else. The makers we meet, the historical instruments we are able to examine, the daily exchange with colleagues who share the same disciplines — all of it shapes how we work and what we are willing to put our name to.
At the heart of the atelier is the daily making of violins, violas, and cellos by Luiz Amorim, entirely by hand and in the Cremonese tradition. Alongside this work, each instrument is carefully examined, restored, adjusted, documented, and prepared for appraisal, acquisition, or consignment. The atelier also welcomes musicians, collectors, and institutions for trials, consultations, and direct guidance from our specialists.
Performers seeking the right instrument, the right setup, or expert care for an instrument they already play, including those commissioning a new instrument by Luiz Amorim.
Owners of fine instruments seeking informed guidance on conservation, presentation, and long-term stewardship.
Clients requiring rigorous evaluation, market understanding, and technical support for acquisitions and holdings.
Foundations, orchestras, and cultural organizations needing expert support for collection management, appraisal, and conservation.
Clients preparing an instrument for sale, insurance valuation, or formal appraisal, with the documentation and analytical depth such moments require.
These convictions are easier to state than to live by. We measure ourselves against them in every instrument we touch, every conversation we have, and every decision we make.
