KELLY VIOLIN

Since 2001 I've run my own studio, primarily making new instruments but also restoring older instruments and maintaining and adjusting a limited number of instruments. I am a consultant to Skinner auctioneers and appraisers and to the Department of Musical Instruments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and do work to maintain and restore the stringed instruments in the collection. I am an advisor to the Violin Making and Repair program at NBSS, and in 2015 was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus, in part for my original historical research into traditional methods of instrument design. I am a member of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers and the Violin Society of America and have won certificates of merit and medals for tone in their biennial international violin making competition, including most recently a Certificate for Tone for Quartet in 2018 and a Silver Medal for Tone for Quartet in 2016.