Concierge Services

• Violin, Viola, Celli and their Bows

Quality Acquisitions for Connoisseurs
and Professionals

Expert Tonal Adjustment and Set-up

Serving our National Musical Community for over two decades,
from Orange County, CA

Are You Searching?

After learning your requirements and aspirations, I custom search for your ideal musical partner, nationwide. Resourcing from players, collectors, and colleagues alike, I’m not limited to a local stockroom.

Visit everywhere else first but come to me last… Find your perfect fit

Are You Selling?

Consign your current instrument or bow through me, and let’s pass it forward to its next musical steward. Appreciation is just around the corner… Let’s talk

Does Your Instrument Need Maintenance?

Stop by for a comprehensive health check-up. I offer structural analysis, tonal evaluation, and expert acoustical adjustment, with complimentary espresso… Let’s get you sounding your best

Consultation.

Arranging investment opportunities for connoisseur level instruments… Schedule a consultation

Lectures and Workshops.

Informative, engaging and interactive industry-related presentations to your group, class, or organization. History of the Violin / Violin Alchemy: Pigments and Varnish / Violins as an Investment / Custom Content… Learn more

Boris is the only person I go to for expert adjustments. He meticulously improves the tone of my violin, time and time again.

– Chloé Tardiff, Principal Second, Long Beach Orchestra

Boris has a remarkable instinct for matching ideal instrument to musician. For over ten years I have witnessed this happen, over and over again, yet still remain quite amazed each time.

– William Fitzpatrick, Julliard Graduate & Pedagogue

Meet Boris

Graduate, and Former Instructor:

Member:

Boris Odio de Granda grew up backstage at Severance Hall, home of The Cleveland Orchestra, his father Alvaro serving as Assistant Concertmaster for most of his four-decades with the acclaimed ensemble. But it wasn’t until he was an adult did Boris fully comprehend the depth of talent and culture in which he had been steeped as a child.

Naturally Boris took violin lessons as a youth, but not demonstrating the prodigious talent of his virtuosic father, after several years his interest waned and would not be re-discovered until later in life and from a new perspective- conceiving the intersection of fine arts and music.

Following a University BFA degree and a decade spent as a professional Visual Artist, Boris eventually came to view the violin as a masterwork example of Fine Art, a highly detailed exercise in aesthetic, creative, and functional construction. Already deeply interested in many violin-related topics /physics, aesthetics, culture, history, music/ he pursued his passion and was accepted into The Violin Making School of America in Salt Lake City, under tutelage of the esteemed Peter Prier. Drawing upon his well-established artistic proficiency, technical skills, and meticulous brushwork he excelled in the program, and subsequently was invited to join the faculty and lead the varnish program… while still a student. Exclusively using traditional ingredients and methods, and instructing from an alchemically purist’s perspective, in turn Boris was invited to speak at the Vernix 2000 International Varnish Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico to share his developmental research. After formally graduating and earning the degree of Luthier, plus several further rewarding years of teaching, he ultimately relocated to Southern California to open a private atelier and focus on custom-building fine concert instruments, as well as arrange private sales of vintage master works.

During these past two decades Boris has worked with numerous high-caliber musicians, been highlighted in various print and film media, interviewed on classical music radio, delivered numerous educational lectures from conservatory to boardroom, and accepted an Award for Tone from the Violin Society of America’s International Making Competition. Furthermore, The Boris Violins Studio was featured in the March 2009 issue of The Strad (the preeminent British publication devoted to the classical strings trade), and in 2010 he was invited by The Violin Making School of America to return to his alma mater as Honorary Guest Examiner and deliver their graduation commencement address.

Through his years of sculpting sound (abstractly conceptualizing a desired timbre, visualizing the complex dimensional shape of inner volume/air to generate that tone color, then wrapping the precise thickness of organic material around that capacity in order to amplify its voice) Boris has developed an empirical perception of the myriad of intricate balances comprising the violin, perceiving how they tonally correspond with its physical form, and understanding how to manipulate various resonant qualities by adjusting specific equilibriums. …The object, simply is, harmony.

“The Violin is the quintessential epitome of Renaissance engineering, if not the only remaining example of sophisticated technology not to be improved upon in four hundred years. And, as formed/created merely by precise rearrangement of nature, an enduring quintessential example of true alchemy.”

Schedule a Consultation – By Appointment
© 2022 BorisViolins. All Rights Reserved.

Pin It on Pinterest

Share This