On June 2, 2026, a delegation led by Giovanni Colonna of the Violin Making School in Cremona (Scuo…
On June 2, 2026, a delegation led by Giovanni Colonna of the Violin Making School in Cremona (Scuola di Liuteria di Cremona), Italy — an internationally renowned violin-making institution — visited our school. Professor Wu Jingyu, Vice Dean of the School of Music, received the visiting guests and hosted a string instrument making and tuning workshop and an exchange symposium in Room 501 of the Boya Building. Representatives of the Russian faculty of the Chongqing Tchaikovsky Music School and members of its dedicated working team attended the symposium.
The event was held in two halves. In the first half, during the violin making and tuning workshop, Italian luthiers Giovanni Colonna and Nicholas Gamberini provided one-on-one hands-on guidance in instrument tuning to teachers and students of the string major from the School of Music and the preparatory class of the Chongqing Tchaikovsky Music School, sharing on site the intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship of Cremona violin making as well as professional knowledge on violin care and maintenance. Teachers and students alike remarked that these tuning techniques and maintenance insights were of great value in helping them use their violins correctly, improve their performance, and extend the instruments' service life.
In the second half, at the symposium, Vice Dean Wu Jingyu presented an update on the recent development of the Chongqing Tchaikovsky Music School. The Italian delegates shared the development philosophy of the Cremona Violin Making School: it is a specialized institution supported by government departments and dedicated to passing on Italy's excellent violin-making craftsmanship, and luthiers and performers should be collaborators rather than parties in a service relationship. The Italian delegates also introduced European art schools' experience in building practical violin-making training courses. The two sides exchanged views on discipline co-construction, instrument maintenance, and related matters. Both sides expressed their intention to further strengthen communication and contacts and to steadily move their willingness to cooperate toward concrete implementation.