The Latest News from Sønderborg
The latest news from Larsen Strings. Please read updates on forthcoming events, new products, recent visits and recent visitors.
Image: Dr Thomas Zwieg and Ole Wichman with Rusanda Panfili and Tina Guo
Play for Peace: A Concert for Cooperation
This is an excellent initiative that we are pleased to publicise. Calling all classical musicians from around the world... Play for Peace: A Concert for Cooperation On Sunday 11 November 2018 for a global concert which will show that, one hundred years on, since the...
Kronberg Academy
Larsen Strings Workshop. 'How Can I Optimise My Instrument?' Dr. Ing. Thomas Zwieg, Product Development Manager at Larsen Strings A/S with Tobias Krutz, violinmaker and cellist. Dr. Ing. Thomas Zwieg and the violinmaker and cellist Tobias Krutz will explain and...
What Chamber Music Has Taught Us
The Odora Trio -An extract from Hattie Butterworth's Larsen Blog It's been almost two years since my piano trio and I fell together. Our violinist Sophie and I were close friends at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and when the cellist in her trio at the Royal...
Guest Blogs
Have you visited our guest musician blogs? To give contrasting perspective, the two blogs currently up and running, are from the viewpoint of a cello teacher in London and a student cellist currently studying at the Royal College of Music. The Student Cellist Hattie...
Featuring Jason Lippmann
New to our online Musicians section is Jason Lippmann. A cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Jason has recently performed contemporary works by Frank Zappa and Phillip Glass. He can also be heard on the sound track of major Hollywood productions including The...
A Life Less Ordinary…
Far be it from us to suggest the miraculous but we would like to think that we produce extraordinary strings. Did you know? The key stage in the development of every new string is you. We trial our strings extensively, hands on, with musicians to tweak and perfect the...
Larsen Strings on Tour
‘Strings have a far larger effect on the timbre and playing characteristics of a cello than one might expect. Similarly to our vocal folds, they contribute greatly to an instrument’s quality of articulation and expression. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zwieg from Larsen Strings A/S...
Once upon a time…
As a Danish company we could be forgiven for referring to one of our greatest literary figures, for example, in telling the story of an individual string. Where would be a very good place to start? Let’s start at the very beginning (no ugly ducklings involved). The...
Stradivarius vs Guarnerius
‘Trying out the Lord Aylesford 1696 Stradivarius on loan to me by the Nippon Music Foundation and the Joseph Filius Guarnerius 1694 from Beares in London.’ Cellist Pablo Ferrández compares the two greats. To make things fair, as in the...
Made in Denmark
As the Danish gentleman said. Part of a series of illustrated quotes from Hans Christian Andersen to follow over the next week or so. ‘Where words fail, music speaks.’ At Larsen Strings we would like to think that we are adding our voice to the conversation. Please...
New Featured Artists
North American Featured Musicians For our latest update of partner musicians, we are pleased to present four musicians from the United States. Magnacore® Arioso: Benjamin Karp, Professor of Cello at the University of Kentucky School of Music. Magnacore®: Dr. Kimberly...
Harald Haugaard & Il Cannone
Our thanks to Harald Haugaard for forwarding his impressions following his switch from Larsen Original to Il Cannone for violin: ‘For the past twenty five years my loyalty has always been to Larsen Original, in the light blue packets. But I’ve recently fitted the new...
Aiming for sustainable solutions
Our ambition at Larsen Strings is to progressively work toward sustainable solutions in the way that we operate as a company. Some steps are small and some, such as our decision to upgrade to a C0² neutral electricity plan, are larger steps towards our destination.
Ingolf Nielsens Vej 14A , DK 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark.
Larsen Strings A/S has chosen to support the environment by upgrading to a CO2 neutral wind energy plan. Larsen Strings also supports UN World Goal 7 "Sustainable Energy" through its green choice.
