Exhibition Program 2025
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to this year’s Klanggestalten Exhibition in Dussmann Hall, Musikgymnasium Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Rheinsberger Straße 4-5, 10115 Berlin
from the 31st October to the 2nd of November 2025.
Some of Europe’s best violin and bow makers will present their new violins, violas, cellos and double basses along with their bows.
All instruments and bows may be extensively tried out in separate rooms throughout the exhibition. Purchase or extended trial of instruments can be arranged after consultation with the relevant makers.
Public sound checks of selected exhibited instruments and bows will take place.
All of the violin and bow makers exhibiting this year in Berlin look forward to your visit. Don’t miss this exceptional opportunity to try out fantastic, newly built instruments and bows as well as to meet their makers.
Please note that during all sound checks, access to the exhibition of violins and violas will be closed.
Welcome!
EXHIBITION PROGRAM
Friday 31st October 2025 |
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| 12:00 – 22:00 | Exhibition | |
| 16:00 |
Violin Sound Check Public testing of the violins and bows from the exhibition with Suyeon Kang, Belcea Quartet, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin. Duration ca. 45 minutes. |
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Saturday 1st November 2025 |
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| 11:00 – 18:30 | Exhibition | |
| 12:00 |
Double Bass Sound Check Public testing of the double basses and bows from the exhibition with Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón, Ensemble Vindeleia. Duration ca. 45 minutes. |
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| 16:00 |
Cello Sound Check Public testing of the cellos and bows from the exhibition with Prof. Leonid Gorokhov, HfM Hannover, Guildhall School of Music. Duration ca. 45 minutes. |
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| 19:30 |
Evening Concert The Signum Quartett and a Double Bass Duo play on newly built instruments and bows from the exhibition.Florian Donderer, Violin – Signum Quartett Annette Walther, Violin – Signum Quartett Xandi van Dijk, Viola – Signum Quartett Thomas Schmitz, Cello – Signum Quartett Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón, Ensemble Vindeleia – Double Bass Duo Program: Haydn, string quartet, Op. 20 No. 3 in G minor Bottesini, Gran Duetto No. 1 for 2 Double Basses |
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Sunday 2nd November 2025 |
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| 11:00 – 19:00 | Exhibition | |
| 13:00 |
Viola Sound Check Public testing of the violas and bows from the exhibition with Prof. Nimrod Guez – Musikhochschule in Würzburg. Duration ca. 45 minutes. |
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LOCATION
Find us at the Dussmann Hall, Musikgymnasium Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Rheinsberger Straße 4-5, 10115 Berlin – Click on the map to open OpenStreetMap
