Samuel Zygmuntowicz

Samuel Zygmuntowicz (* 1956 in Philadelphia ) is an American violin maker.

Zygmuntowicz is the son of survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp who emigrated to the USA after 1945. At the age of thirteen he built his first instrument, a flute. At the age of 16 he worked in a studio and took lessons at the USA's first violin making school in Salt Lake City. During his studies he was tutored by Carl Fredrick Becker , after 1980 he was also a student of Jacques Français and René Morel .

In 1985 Zymuntowicz opened his own studio in New York. In addition to building new violins, violas and cellos, he specialized in the manufacture of replicas of instruments by old masters. A replica of a Guarneri violin he made for Isaac Stern in 1994 was sold at auction in 2003 for the highest price ever achieved by an instrument by a living master. In addition to Stern, he has also received commissions from musicians such as Cho-Liang Lin , Joshua Bell , Maxim Vengerov and the Emerson String Quartet . His Strad3D project , which he collaborated with the physicist, serves the scientific research of historical instrumentsGeorge Bissinger and other scientists operates.

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SURNAME	Zygmuntowicz, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American violin maker
DATE OF BIRTH	1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia