Pedrini, Marco

Marco Pedrini was born in Codogno in 1983. Since his childhood he developed a passion for music and for woodworking. Soon becomes clear that the way will lead to violin making. At the age of 14 he began to attend the International School of Violin Making A. Stradivari in Cremona, where the 2000 receives the award “Large-Taglietti” as the best student and where in 2002 he graduated under the guidance of the Master Giorgio Ce (“Gold Medal” Best violin at The Edition of the Triennale in Cremona 1976).

He attended several training courses of the Lombardy Region and with Master Giorgio Grisales. He works five years in the laboratory of Giorgio Grisales, in the historic centre of Cremona, where, thanks to an intense collaboration with the Master and all his staff, refined his techniques of construction of stringed instruments.

In 2007 Marco Pedrini decided to open his own workshop of violin making in Castelnuovo Bocca d'Adda (LO).

From November 2008 he moved in the historic centre of Cremona, in Via Beltrami n. 22, where he still works. His production concentrates on  the construction of the classical Cremonese instruments: violins, violates, cellos and basses. These models are mostly inspired by Stradivari and Guarneri, but Marco Pedrini is also interested about other directions such as Montagnana, Gofriller, Guadagnini, Garimberti, Adorned … and the development of personal models.

He builds modern instruments but also makes copies of old-style ones.