About - Michael Vann, Bow maker

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Canadian Bow Maker Michael Vann was trained in New York City in the shop of the world renowned master Bow Maker William Salchow. Since embarking on his career in 1975 he has won six international and more than a dozen Canadian awards for his bows which have been acquired by such notables as Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth, Pierre Fournier, Ruggiero Ricci, Steven Dann, James Ehnes, Regis Pasquir, France, Steven Staryk, Canada, Eugene Fodor, USA, Jessica Linnebach, Canada, Sidney Harth, USA, Pieter Schoeman, France, Gwen Hoebig, Canada, Gabriel Magyar, (Hungarian String Quartet), Nikolaj Znaider, Denmark, Lena Neudauer, Germany, Nikki Chooi, Timmy Chooi, The New Brunswick String Quartet (Canada), The Franciscan String Quartet (U.S.A.) The Amernet String Quartet, USA, The Colorado Strings Quartet, (U.S.A.), The Manfred String Quartet. (France), The St. Lawrence String Quartet, Canada, The Miro String Quartet, USA, The Daedalus String Quartet, USA, just to name a few.

He was also recently commissioned by a private foundation to make bows for the Royal House of Denmark.

His bows are in use by members of symphony orchestras in Amsterdam, Chicago, Montreal, New York, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Tokyo, China, Paris, Toulouse, Nice, Taiwan, Dusseldorf, Victoria, and many others.

His bows are also being sold in Japan and Europe.

He was commissioned to make the quartets of presentations bows for the Banff International String Quartet Competition from 1983 to 2003.

He made conductor's batons in the past for such maestros as Mario Bernardi and presently for maestro Bramwel Tovey.

Michael is married to violinist / teacher Dolores, former concertmaster of the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra. They make their home on Gabriola Island, a short ferry ride from Nanaimo, British Columbia.
 
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