Our customers - "testimonials"
Customers include:
Prof. Anne-Sophie Mutter, international soloist:
"Dear Mr. Finnigan, dear Ms. Klaembt,
Having returned from the USA, I'm thrilled to tell you about the good
response to your beautiful violin. The setting alone made the concert
in Carnegie-Hall an impressive experience. It would surely have been a
great pleasure for you to have heard your violin in this marvellous
hall! Your instrument has a very balanced and round tone. I am sure the
violin will develop further over the next years and I will always keep
you informed about concert appearances in the near future. I am
definitely planning to use it for part of my recitals in Frankfurt,
Stuttgart and London.
I would like to wish you much pleasure and luck for your future
projects and remain with kind regards
Anne-Sophie Mutter"
(translation from the german)
Ian van Rensburg, Concert master of the „Århus Symfoniorkester“:
"Richness, warmth, projection, precision, character, power,
personality.......
Top of the scale workmanship and style, great service...If u cannot
afford the best 18th century Italian instruments, u will make a very
happy landing in Bremen at Andrew and Pia’s. I did..."
Sven Arne Tepl, Member of the Utrecht
String Quartet, Solo viola of Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Professor for
viola and chamber music at the Artez Conservatorium Enschede and
Messiaen Academy of the Netherlands :
"After years of searching for an instrument that "clicks" with me, I
have had wonderful encounter with the viola from Andrew and Pia, from
the first tone it gave me the certainty, that this is what I have been
looking for. What inspire me are the responsiveness and the resonance
of the overtones. In the quartet the viola blends without a problem
with the "old" instruments of my colleagues. In the orchestra, I notice
in solos that I'm reaching the last row of the hall. And often the
astonished faces of colleagues and listeners when they hear: "No it
isn't an old Italian" Congratulations Pia and Andrew!!!"
(translation from the german)
Judith Ermert,
Professor für Violoncello an der Hochschule Gent, Belgien:
Since 2005 I own a
beautiful cello made by Andrew Finnigan and Pia Klaembt.
Whether playing Chamber
music or Solo concerts: The cello always receives postitive response
from the audience and colleagues. How often have I after a concert
heard the question: What wonderful cello are you playing there? Many
bet that it is an old Italien and are surprised from the warm round
and even tone of my modern instrument.
After falling in love at
first sight a real partnership has developed, and it is always again
and again a great joy to be able to create a broad spectrum of tone
colours with the cello!
(translation from the german)
Awards
Exhibitions and competitions:
- Andrew was invited as one of only ten modern violin makers to
exhibited a violin in the '400 years of British violin making'
exhibition 1998
- Pia won the Silver medal for a violin entered in the international competition of the Violin society of America 2002
- Andrew won the Gold medal for violin in the "concours de lutherie
et d`archetèrie" Paris 1999, and the special prize "Distinction Soroku
Murata" from the headmaster of the Japanese violin making school
- Andrew won the Gold medal for cello in the "Strad cello and bow
making competition"at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester
2001
Links
www.Anne-Sophie-Mutter.de
Anne-Sophie Mutter plays one of our violins
www.svenarnetepl.nl
www.utrechtstringquartet.com
http://www.sinfonietta.nl/
The Solo violist Prof. Sven Arne Tepl plays one of our violas
www.judithermert.com
Judith Ermert plays one of our cellos
www.fm-alexander-technik.com
Bryan und Ina Mckenna Alexander technique for musicians
www.davidfinnigan.co.uk
Photorealism by Andrews brother David Finnigan
www.petefinnigan.com
Oracle security from Andrews brother Pete Finnigan
www.lioni.com
Jens and Nagako Mehnert import specialities to Japan
http://significance.webmen.de/
Barbara Reiter, Philosopher und Filmmaker
Barbara assisted us with the development of the website
www.pool-webdesign.de
www.my-favorite-things.de
Michael Rippl, our webdesigner
Press
String & Bow, February 2009
The Strad, October 2006 "Trade Secrets"
The Strad, April 2000 "Test of Character"
The Strad, August 2001 "Gold fingers"
Strings Magazine, Feb/March No. 84
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