I met Cécile and Chris last summer during a festival in England.
I was absolutely not looking to purchase any instrument since I was going to buy a viola I had been playing on for several years, but just out of curiosity, I wanted to try « something else » and started to look at the beautiful instruments they had brought.
First, I admired the beauty of this viola, made by Andrej Kalata, which is quite dark. And then, I played on it and really fell in love with the round timbre and all the different colours I could produce.
Chris has also been an incredible help to me and has guided me in making the viola sound exactly the way I wanted it to be. I really felt like we were working as a team and I am so grateful to have crossed paths with them !
A huge thank you !
Winner of the Musical Patronage Société Générale 2015 and a few national competitions (Lempdes, Toulouse, Mouans-Sartoux), Cynthia is currently finishing her Doctorate at the University of Montreal. As a chamber musician, she performed in several festivals in Europe such as Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence, Rencontres Musicales de St-cézaire, ISA Festival, AuditionPerform and is a guest member of the Osmose Ensemble. During the summer of 2018, her passion for orchestra led her to perform within the Pacific Music Festival as co-principal for a tour in Japan.