Po-Yi Chen

Violin Maker/ Bow Maker/ Restorer

 

 * Woodyish Violins & Bows Shop Owner（Since 2009~）

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* The Violin Making School of America Graduate in 2009, SLC, UT (2006~2009)

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* Victoria Conservatory of Music in Canada Graduate in 2008 (Class of Modern & Baroque           Bow Making and restoring)

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* Violin restoration trained in Peter Prier & Sons Violin Shop (2006~2009)

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* VSA Member

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* VMAAI Member

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​* VMAAI 2019 Violin Making Competition "International Top 3 Recognition" Reward

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* Jewelry Maker

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* Kaohsiung Jewelry Craft Union Consultant

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* Scarli iSoundpost Artistic Consultant

 

 

Po-Yi Chen was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1981. Since childhood, he was so fascinating by the fine arts and the classical music, and started to show his talent in this field. In a special moment, he was attracted by this amazing combination of both the visual and the acoustic – Violin Making.

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In the year of 2005, a year before he went to the violin making school of America in Salt Lake City, Utah, he met one special friend and teacher – Patrick Henry. One year of solid apprenticing under Patrick made Po-Yi be very outstanding later on when he was studying in the violin making school with Peter Prier, Charles Woolf, Georg Meiwes, and J. Stanley Hooper. Furthermore, in the first year of his studying in the school, he was the only selected student to be trained violin restoring in Peter Prier & Sons Violin Shop.

 

During summer vacations of the school, Po-Yi did not take any break and went to study bow making with Michael Vann in the Conservatory of Music in Victoria, Canada. At the end of the class, he was rewarded the best recognized graduate in 2008.

 

After graduated from the violin making school in 2009, he went back to Taiwan and set up  his own workshop “Woodyish Violins & Bows” in Kaohsiung, Taiwan until now.​