On 28 April, the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels presents a meeting with the luthier Bruno Stefanini as part of the ‘Ai margini del bosco’ (At the Edge of the Woods) event.
Bruno Stefanini has been practising as a luthier since 1989 after obtaining the Master Luthier diploma at the Bolognese School of Artistic Luthiery, which was directed at the time by Master Luthier Otello Bignami. Stefanini reveals some of the secrets of violin making, the art of designing, building and restoring string instruments.
A musical demonstration has also been planned during the talk.
‘At the Edge of the Woods’ is a festival organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels and dedicated to films, literary, poetic and non-fiction texts and artistic projects that deal in an original way with the relationship between man and nature, between urban and wild and draw on the mythical-fairy-tale substratum that the forest as a place of the imagination has always evoked.
In this event, the forest is seen as the source of a fundamental resource for music: wood.
From wood, in particular from fir trees – those from the Val di Fiemme are extremely valuable – we obtain the soundboards that are the basis of all stringed instruments.
More information at: iicbruxelles.esteri.it.