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Maker of Bows for all Instruments of the Violin Family

Dealer and 
Restorer
of
Instruments 
and 
Bows 
of the 
Violin Family

Photo Denese Izzard

 

My
Victoria Conservatory of Music
Shop Dates. (Studio 113)
For additional dates click here

 

Studio dates 2010



February 19, 2010
March 19, 2010
April  16, 2010
May 21, 2010

 

Tortoise shell frog mounted with Silver fish slide

      

Canadian Bow Maker Michael Vann was trained in New York City in the shop of the world renowned master Bow Maker William Salchow. Since embarking on his career in 1975 he has won six international and more than a dozen Canadian awards for his bows which have been acquired by such notables as Pierre Fournier, Ruggiero Ricci, Steven Dann, Steven Staryk, Eugene Fodor, Amanda Forsyth, Sidney Harth, Gwen Hoebig, Gabriel Magyar, (Hungarian String Quartet), Nikolaj Znaider, Lena Neudauer, Pinchas Zukerman, The New Brunswick String Quartet (Canada), The Franciscan String Quartet (U.S.A.) The Colorado Strings Quartet, (U.S.A.), The Manfred String Quartet. (France), The St. Lawrence String Quartet, The Miro String Quartet, just to name a few.

He was also recently commissioned by a private foundation to make bows for the Royal House of Denmark.

They are in use by members of symphony orchestras in Amsterdam, Chicago, Montreal, New York, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Tokyo, Paris, Toulouse, Nice, Taiwan, Dusseldorf,  Victoria, and many others.

His bows are also being sold in Japan and Europe.

He has made the quartets of presentations bows for the Banff International String Quartet Competition since its inception.

He makes conductor's batons for such maestros as Mario Bernardi.

Michael is married to violinist / teacher DOLORES , former concertmaster of the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra. They make their home on GABRIOLA, a few minutes from Nanaimo, British Columbia.
 

 

MENGLA HUANG is congratulated after his decisive first place win at the 2002 Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy.

He earned his gold medal with the aid of a Michael Vann violin bow.

 

 

Please also visit
michaelvann.com

and michaelvann.ca

 

Phony Asian copies of this bow 
have shown on the market.
Click here for more

 

 

Vann Bowed Instruments Ltd.
Serving musicians since 1975

Dealer, Maker, Restoration, Evaluation.

Member, American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers
Member, The Violin Society of American

841 Canso Drive. P.O. Box 126
Gabriola, B.C.
VOR 1XO.

Telephone (250) 247-8030.
Fax Line (250) 247-9411

1-800-650-BOWS (Orders Only)

 

All rights reserved.
ŠVann Bowed Instruments Ltd, 1975-2009

This site last updated Tuesday, January 26, 2010