Formazione continua dei liutai professionisti-anno 2020
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The Mayor Gianluca Galimberti participated to the workshop organized by DG Grow (General Directorate of the European Commission for Internal…
Il Sindaco Gianluca Galimberti, in rappresentanza di Cremona, ha partecipato al workshop organizzato dal DG Grow (Direzione generale per il…
Cremona è stata scelta dal Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e dall’Ufficio UNESCO di Venezia quale sede…
Violin Making
In Cremona there are more than 150 workshops: an extraordinary rich panorama to be explored in order to analyse, study and get in touch with the violin-making tradition. That’s why, every year, hundreds of students coming from all over the world decide to study in Cremona.
In the home-town of violin-making, learning this ancient art is even more exciting. The school “A.Stradivari” offers the basic training course to learn how to make string and plucked instruments, with the help of important masters who have been passing down the ancient tradition of Cremona’s violin-making.
Music
Cremona is not only the capital-city of violin-making, but it is also an important centre of music training. In Cremona you can find the academic courses of the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage [link didattica], the artistic and music courses (pre-academic and academic) of the music school “C.Monteverdi” and [link] the music specialization courses of the Academy Walter Stauffer [link].
Music is an experience that characterizes the entire life of the town in its every single aspect as it is not only connected to the university and the research sector. Music contributes to the cognitive development of the children, it develops their expressive and communicative skills, creativity, tolerance and self-esteem. It is an important element of quality in the school-system of the town. The presence in Cremona of several music high schools, of a High School specialized in music and of the International School of violin-making made possible the creation of a big network connected to the public music training sector.
In the Nineties, thanks to the cooperation among the municipality departments, the schools, the Music School “Claudio Monteverdi” and with the support of some private subjects (like the Stauffer Foundation), Cremona started to propose a wide range of music curricular and extra-curricular activities for children and teenagers: propaedeutics, chorus, instruments’ learning, music training in high schools and opportunities to learn ensemble music.
Restoration
In Cremona, since 2016, it has been active at the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage the only course of studies in Italy that teaches you how to become a restorer of music and scientific instruments. It is a course that lasts 5 years and, at the end of it, you can get the qualification that allows you to restore items coming from private and public collections. Moreover, at the Violin’s Museum, you can find the Non-Invasive Diagnostic Workshop, where the cutting-edge technologies and methodologies are applied to the analysis of historical string instruments.
Cremona offers also some courses that allow you to become assistant restorer, a person that technically assists the restorer in all the phases of his work on the cultural heritage. The courses last three years and they take place at Cr.Forma.
The Sound’s Study
In 2016, in Cremona, it was launched the course of music acoustics engineering that is about the processes involved in the birth, analysis, processing and use of the music sound. The two-years course is organized by Poly-technical University of Milan and it offers the possibility to attend at the same time the courses offered by the Department of Musicology of Pavia University (studies on the organ and restoration of music instruments). Moreover, in the Research Workshops at the Violin’s Museum it is active the Musical Acoustic Lab of Poly-technical University of Milan, that is about advanced research in vibrometric and acoustic sector.