Alessandro Scandroglio

Alessandro Scandroglio was born on 27th April 1979 in Castellanza, Italy. From 1987 to 2000 he studied the violin, starting at the secondary school "Luigi Majno" in a class with a musical curriculum taught by professor Simona Gilardi, and then at the "Istituto Musicale Pareggiato G.Puccini" in Gallarate, studying with the M° Ruggero Marchesi. In the last years of the conservatory he started playing the viola, as well as the violin, as his main instrument. Meanwhile, he obtained his diploma at the School of Arts in Varese where he first became interested in wood carving.

From 1997 to 2000 he studied violin making at the "Scuola Internazionale di Liuteria" in Parma with the M° Renato Scrollavezza and M° Marco Imer Piccinotti for the varnishing.

In 2000, after obtaining the diploma, he became an indipendent violin maker and opened his own laboratory in Casorate Sempione. The same year he also started his apprenticeship, that later was to become an active collaboration, with professor Piccinotti, who provided an important contribution to his training.

Under professor Piccinotti's guidance and aided by his own musical background, Alessandro Scandroglio started to search for a personal style and an ideal sound. Thanks to the refined building technique he has learnt, he is now able to reach the desired sonorous result and also exalt the acoustic qualities of the wood he uses. Some year later, in 2006, he won three prizes at the international competition of Poznan, Poland

In 2010 he started making also guitars and recording for many important and famous musicians.

In the same year he won the first prize at the international competition of Como proposed by the Conservatory of the city which aim was to buy a string quartet.

His instruments are appreciated by musicians all over the world both and soloists from important Italian orchestras such as the one of “Arena di Verona” and the one of “Il Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” in Florence.