Thomastik-Infeld and Stauffer Center for Strings to Offer New Scholarship Opportunity

Selected Stauffer Center students will attend workshops and take a trip to Vienna

Cremona's Stauffer Center for Strings recently announced its new collaboration with the Viennese string-making company, Thomastik-Infeld. The partnership will offer a new scholarship program, which will support selected Stauffer Center students.

Students will be given a variety of opportunities to experience some of Thomastik-Infeld's string expertise — including a workshop on string tension to be held at the Stauffer Center in March. The workshop will be run by cellist Attila Pasztor and violinist Stojan Jovanovic, Thomastik-Infeld's Product Managers.

Later in the year, the selected students will also travel to Vienna to undertake a tour of the Thomastik-Infeld headquarters, where they will learn more about how strings are produced.

"At the Accademia Stauffer, we aim to guarantee excellence for our students at every stage of their academic journey," said Paolo Petrocelli, the Director General of the Academia Stauffer. "That is why we are particularly proud to enter into a solid partnership with Thomastik-Infeld, the world-class leader in string technology."

"Together with them, we share values, a strong commitment for constant innovation and the devotion to inspire the future generations of musicians," he continued. "Thanks to the cooperation, we will be able to offer additional support to our students while building their artistic identity and becoming professional musicians."

"Thomastik-Infeld has been developing and producing strings for bowed, plucked and world music instruments in Vienna since 1919," said Ann-Kathrin Hitz, Thomastik-Infeld's Marketing Director. "We are very happy to announce our collaboration with the Stauffer Center of Strings."

"We are convinced that both of our areas of expertise — ours about strings and the Stauffer Academy’s about music education — together with the input of many renowned soloists and ensembles that teach there, will be very fruitful," she added. "We will offer support for teachers and students of the Stauffer Center for Strings in order for them to achieve the highest artistic excellence as part of our new strategic partnership."