Two of this year's RAB trust award winners have together completed a copy of a Guarneri del Gesu violin in 10 days. ...
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RAB BVMA Restoration Course Award 2019 – Sarah Padday
Each year the RAB Trust makes a significant award to an outstanding student, giving them the opportunity to participate at a high-level training course. The British Violin Making Association runs a ...
RAB Awards 2019
The RAB Trust awards for 2019 were decided at a Trustees meeting in March. From 24 applications, we made 15 financial awards ranging from £100 to £500, totalling £4,389.42, and arranged 10 work ...
RNCM 2019: Two baroque cellos in two weeks. Part 1: a tale of monstrous work
Jahanava Gargallo, a third year student at Newark, was funded by the RAB Trust as a helper/observer during a recent project at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where four violin ...
Violin maker in Palestine
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 ...
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 ...