Stradivari Society

Infobox company
name = Stradivari Society

type = Private
genre =
foundation = Chicago, Illinois, USA
founder = Geoffrey Fushi
Mary Galvin
location_city = Chicago, Illinois, USA
area_served = Worldwide
key_people = Geoffrey Fushi, Chairman
Robert Bein, Advisor
John K. Becker, Curator
Eduard Wulfson, Director of European Operations
industry = Music industry
services = Pedagogy
parent = Bein & Fushi, Inc.
homepage = [http://www.stradivarisociety.com The Stradivari Society]
intl = yesThe Stradivari Society is a philanthropic organization based in Chicago, Illinois, best known for its arranging deals between owners of antique string instruments such as those made by luthiers Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri, for use by talented musicians and performers. The Stradivari Society does not hold title to the instruments.

Background

The Society was founded by Geoffrey Fushi and Mary Galvin in 1985 when Galvin, wife of then-president of Motorola, Bob Galvin, was approached by Fushi and Robert Bein from Bein & Fushi Violins of Chicago, to loan the "Ruby Stradivarius" of 1708 that he had previously sold to her to a promising violinist, Dylana Jensen. Seeing that such rare violins were very expensive and difficult to obtain, Galvin and Fushi designed the structure and name of the society after loaning another violin when Dorothy DeLay of the Juilliard School requested Fushi for a violin for her most promising student, then ten-year-old, Midori. Enjoying the experience of loaning such beautiful violins to those who could use it to grow and launch their career, after that a string of loans followed.

Awardees include Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Leila Josefowicz, Sarah Chang, Janine Jansen, Vadim Repin, Hilary Hahn, Maxim Vengerov, and Paul Coletti, all of whom have enhanced their careers playing violins the Society arranged for them to borrow.

Loan program

The Society's two dozen patrons are each given tri-annual concerts by their sponsored musician during its three-year period. Each artist is responsible for insuring the instrument, and its delivery to The Society's curator, John Becker. Inspection and service is performed exclusively by Becker three times yearly, and cannot be done by any other luthier without permission. The instrument is often purchased by the artist from its patron, with The Society acting as liaison. Joshua Bell and Gil Shaham.

Recipients

;Antonio Stradivari
* Cecily Ward – "Fleming", 1681
* Vadim Gluzman – "Auer", 1689
* Rugerro Allifranchini – "Fetzer", 1694
* Gil Shaham – "Comtesse de Polignac", 1699
* Frank Almond – "Dushkin", 1701
* Berent Korfker – "King Maximilian Joseph", "ca." 1702
* Stefan Milenkovich – "Lyall", 1702
* Tamaki Kawakubo – "La Cathédrale", 1707
* Jeff Thayer – "Burstein; Bagshawe", 1708
* Vadim Repin – "Ruby", 1708
* Ilya Gringolts – "Kiesewetter", "ca." 1723
* Joshua Bell – "Tom Taylor", 1732
* Janine Jansen – "Barrere", 1727

;Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù
* Sheryl Staples – "Kartman", "ca." 1720
* Adele Anthony – "Mary Portman", "ca." 1735
* Soovin Kim – "Sennhauser", 1735
* Siqing Lu – "Wieniawski", "ca." 1742 ;House of Amati
* Daniel Roehn – "Lobkowicz", Antonio & Girolamo Amati, 1617
* Yunzhi Liu – Nicolò Amati, "ca." 1635-40

;Gasparo da Salò
* Jonathon Moerschal – "Adam", 1590 (viola)
* Beth Guterman – Gasparo da Salò, 1590 (viola)

;Other
* Tom Stone Jr. – "Tonge; Scheinin", Carlo Bergonzi, "ca." 1733
* Ji Sun Yang – Nicolò Gagliano, "ca." 1750
* Richard Hirschl – Ferdinando Garimberti, 1923 (cello)
* Michala Høj – "Robert Chen", Matteo Goffriller, "ca." 1700
* Yang Liu – "Guarnerius", "ca." 1740
* Hanbin Yoo – Giovanni Paolo Maggini, "ca." 1600
* Tai Murray – Petrius Merighi, 1772
* Axel Strauss – "Taylor", Giovanni Francesco Pressenda 1845

ee also

*Stradivarius

References

* [http://www.stradivarisociety.com/ Stradivari Society] - Official website