KELVIN SCOTT VIOLIN MAKER - Gold Medal for Viola 2004 VSA Competition
1VIOLIN SOCIETY OF AMERICA'S 16th INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for new instruments and bows, Nov. 8 to 14th,2004 - PORTLAND OREGON
The Competition's objective is to inspire the creation of outstanding,artistic,concert-quality instruments and bows.Workmanship and tone judges are instructed to identify those instruments and bows having the greatest artistic merit,technical execution and in the case of instruments,tone quality. To win a Gold Medal one must be recommended by both the tone judges and then also the workmanship judges. Kelvin Scott,violin maker from U.S.A., received the Gold Medal for his viola at the 16th VSA INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION -PORTLAND - Nov. 2004. 332 instruments were entered in the competition,in the instrument category there were 8 Gold Medals. For making this viola Mr. K.Scott has used the spruce from Fiemme valley. He wants to express his personal judgement on this tonewood. " Ciresa stands out in my mind as one of Europe's premier tonewood cutters for violin-family instruments.The Ciresa family's long participation in the tonewood trade has cultivated a deep expertise and appreciation for the subtleties that differentiate good tonewood from truly excellent tonewood. I have been thoroughly pleased with the wood I have purchased from Ciresa and I have appreciated their careful grading of billets and the patience in seasoning the spruce. This tonewood is exceptionally strong and incredibly light and the instruments I have made from Ciresa's spruce have in common a quickness of response and a strength of resonance . I believe it was these very characteristics that helped contribute to my crafting an instrument that received a Gold medal at the 16th VSA International violinmaking competition.
1VIOLIN SOCIETY OF AMERICA'S 16th INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for new instruments and bows, Nov. 8 to 14th,2004 - PORTLAND OREGON