Rodney de Vries Violins

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Rodney de Vries

Rodney de Vries is a violin maker who apprenticed under Quentin Playfair of Cambridge, UK, as well as other violinmakers in repairs and restoration in a violin shop in Toronto for six years. Prior to this Rodney trained in violinmaking under Sarah Beaton, restorer at the Royal Academy Collection in London, and Philip Davis, a luthier who specializes in making instruments and bows of the viol family.

Rodney has run a shop in St John’s for more than twelve years, performing repairs and restorations for Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra members and the extended music community. He has traveled regularly to Halifax to do repairs for members for the Symphony Nova Scotia and their students. Rodney continues to train with makers and restorers from the United Kingdom, Germany and United States by attending workshops and forums whenever possible. A highlight was a recent trip to study the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and work under expert makers from the UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands in a British Violin Makers Association workshop.

Prior to violinmaking, Rodney pursued a degree as a visual artist at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, and Florence, Italy, which spurred his interest in the violin as the ultimate blend of form and function. He pursues violinmaking as sound-based sculpture, using some of the most beautiful wood available, and is collected and commissioned by local and international musicians annually.