Versari’s Collection eng

Artemio Versari’s Collection

Artemio Versari

Artemio Versari, born in Cesena, studied double bass at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini in Bologna. He worked for some years as a freelancer in the best Italian symphonic opera orchestras, including RAI in Turin. After achieving some eligibility and winning several competition, including the Teatro La Scala in Milan, Carlo Felice of Genoa, he moved to Bologna where he qualified as principal double bass in the orchestra at the Teatro Comunale, a role which he occupied for about 30 years.

He also teached double bass for a long time at the Pollini Padua Conservatory, then at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna.

Since he was a boy he cultivated with great passion interest in violinmaking, became an expert at national and international levels. Authoritative reference point for musicians, collectors and enthusiasts in general, he still maintains friendship and a relationship of esteem by offering free estimates, consulting, and expertise to their instruments.

Author of a book on violin-making in Emilia Romagna, in which you can admire many meaningful instruments to tell the complex reality of Emilia-Romagna and artistic and stylistic paths of famous and lesser known Luthiers. He is also the author of two exhibition catalogues: “three centuries of Italian violin making” and “The Guarnieri family and the italian twentieth-century copies”.

Owner of an important collection of instruments: violins, violas, cellos and double basses both ancient and modern, based on decades of passionate research that now place him as one of the European top collectors. Currently takes care of violin making as a historic, collector, organizer and curator of exhibitions.

Artemio Versari’s Collection

The exhibition of Versari’s Collection is over.

Over 80 instruments, between violins and violas, were exhibited in the choir of the Basilica of San Petronio thanks to Artemio Versari, one of the most renowned collectors of stringed instruments in Italian and European musical world, thanks to the effort of Francesco Mauro and with the collaboration of the Association “Amici di San Petronio”.

Some of these instruments have been used in the past by the Cappella Musicale musicians and others come from the permanent exhibition of San Maurizio in Venice Church.

Collezione Versari

Torna all’elenco delle Iniziative ed Eventi