Stradivari Society

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Stradivari Society
Type	Private
Founded	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Founder	Geoffrey Fushi Mary Galvin
Headquarters	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.
Website	The Stradivari Society

The Stradivari Society is a philanthropic organisation 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.

Contents 1 Background 2 Loan program 2.1 Recipients 3 See also 4 References

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Stradivarius

[edit] References

• Stradivari Society - Official website