SPECIAL STUDENT TICKET OFFER The RAB Trust is offering a discounted price to all violin making students and on top of that expenses to the first ten who apply for this funding. This offer is ...
RAB Trust blog
A Unique Experience – By Hanna Stumpfl
A few months ago I was asked by the team of Helen Michetschläger, Kai-Thomas Roth, William Castle and Marc Soubeyran if I wanted to support them in their viola making project at the RNCM in Manchester ...
New Ways To Support Students
The RAB Trust continues to find new ways of helping violin making students to develop their skills and find their way in the professional world. We have recently awarded a placement on the 2017 BVMA ...
Neil Kristóf Értz (1966-2016)
Neil was one of the most successful British violin makers of the past 20 years. Due to the beauty of his instruments, he naturally attracted the curiosity of many aspiring makers and he was generous ...
… They Built A Cello In Six Days!
Jason Reitenberger, a first year student at Newark, took part in a project at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, where four experienced violin makers collaborated to build a cello for ...
Treasures Found At One Of Our Tool Sales
In the past years, many violin makers have generously gifted their tools no longer needed which we sell to the violin making students of Newark. The sales are not regular and depend on our supply. ...
Our Trustee- A Publisher!
RAB Trustee Helen Michetschläger recently published her book ‘Violin Varnish: notes and articles from the workshop of Koen Padding’. This documents the expertise of the late Koen Padding, who was ...
Violin of Friends
Paul Bowers has come to London to hand over a violin he made with Rowan and friends. It's going to be sold on behalf of the trust. ...
Brian Laurence memorial cello
In the summer of 2013 Kai-Thomas Roth, a luthier specialising in cellos, invited three young makers from the Newark School of Violin Making to complete an unfinished cello which had been started by ...