Roberto Collini

Roberto Collini is a violin maker working out out of Cremona. He applied to and was accepted at a neighborhood music school when he was just a boy but without an instrument to play, he had to ask a local luthier to build one for him. The process fascinated Collini and so he decided to enroll at the International Violin Making School of Cremona in 1979. There Collini studied with Giorgio Scolari. He graduated as one of the best students in his class. Collini stayed in Cremona and found work assisting famed makers Arnaldo Morano and GioBatta Morassi. He also took on the study of bow making under Giovanni Lucchi.

Collini’s instruments have been recognized for their quality of sound and overall value in an astounding number of competitions. Many well known and well accomplished musicians play Collini’s instruments, including M. Antonello Farulli, Marco Fornaciari, Emanuele Rossi, Graziano Beluffi, Daniele Gay, Andrea Leporati, and other musicians in famous orchestras such as The Scala Theatre, The Tuscany Orchestra, The Fenice Theatre, The Verona Arena, and The Sanremo Orchestra. To this day Collini works at his workshop in Cremona.