The Guardian features our former award winner Shehada Shalalda - have a read: Violin maker in Palestine brings sweet sounds to troubled landscape It is said that the hardest thing you can do ...
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RAB Oberlin Award 2018 – Mathieu Fourrier
Mathieu was the lucky recipient of our biennial award which funds attendance at the Oberlin Violin Makers summer school in Ohio. "This year I was fortunate enough to be sponsored by the RAB trust to ...
Education Services
The RAB Trust has been supported for much of its existence with grants from the charity Education Services. This is a small charity, originally set up in the 1930s by Cambridge economist Jack ...
Viola by Rowan Armour-Brown
At our recent RAB Trustees meeting we were presented with a jewel of a viola. It has an interesting history. It was one of the last violas made by the namesake of our Trust, Rowan Armour-Brown. It ...
RAB Special Awards 2018
As the RAB Trust has developed over its more than twenty years, we have become more ambitious in the range and scope of our awards. From those who apply each year, we invite some of the best ...
RAB Awards 2018
The RAB Trustees held their annual meeting in May 2018. This was a momentous meeting; the last to be directed and hosted by our longstanding Chair, Rachel Douglas. With a light but firm touch, Rachel ...
Tool Sale 2018
A valuable aspect of the RAB Trust work is passing tools and materials on to students that are no longer wanted by their owners. The most efficient way to do this has evolved into the tool sales held ...
Hanna Stumpfl – RAB Special Award 2017
Hanna was the lucky recipient of the RAB Special Award for 2017, a cheque for £1000. The RAB Trust makes this award each year to an outstanding student from a number who were invited to submit a ...
2018 RNCM Baroque violin project
Newark student Marion Pollart took part in a team violin making project at RNCM, Manchester in March 2018. This is her account of her experience: Thanks to the Thomas Jellis Trust, the Royal Northern ...
Blankets
One of our trustees has developed a new line of products to raise some more money for the students. This beautiful violin, viola and cello blankets are handmade in Manchester and are sold on Etsy for ...