"LUTERIA Angel Antonio is 36 years old and obsessed with one question: who will make violins in the future? In an industrialized world where sounds seem uniform, he wonders who will carve wood in a way that allows music to transcend. He asks this without taking his eyes off a violin as he finishes polishing it, after a class with a teacher from the ancient International School of Violin Making in Cremona, which is part of the Antonio Stradivari Institute of Higher Education."
"That Italian city, the world's birthplace of the violin and home to iconic luthiers like Amati, Guarneri del Gesu, and Stradivari, is one of the places that preserves the ancient tradition of lutherie. Thanks to the insistence and work of Julia and Victor Salvi, their teachers now teach students in Ibague. Not only that: with help from the Salvi Foundation, five students are training at the Cremona school itself, the only publicly recognized institute in the world that awards the title of luthier."
The Conservatory of Tolima trains makers of violins, violas, and cellos according to Italian standards through the first Technology program in Construction and Repair of Bowed String Instruments in Colombia. A partnership with the Salvi Foundation and the International School of Violin Making in Cremona enables Cremona teachers to instruct in Ibague and sends students to continue studies in Cremona. The program is tuition-free and is one of the few lutherie schools in Latin America. Students combine musical and visual arts skills while learning traditional lutherie techniques preserved in Cremona.
Read at english.elpais.com
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