"Violin making is an enterprise which beautifully synthesizes the realms of music, art, science, and woodworking. A great violin must display a mastery of skills from all of these diverse disciplines."

Guy Rabut was raised in a musical and artistic family where he began to play the cello at the age of nine. Along with his musical studies he also developed a strong interest in the visual arts through his father, an artist by profession. This seminal association with music and art led to his career in violin making which began at The Violin Making School of America in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he graduated in 1978. For the next five years Mr. Rabut worked for the prestigious firm of Jacques Français in New York City under Master restorer René Morel, where he had the privilege to work on many important Italian instruments played by some of the world's greatest artists.

In 1984, Mr. Rabut established his own shop in New York City, dividing his time between making and restoring instruments. The opportunity to restore some of the finest instruments that exist in the world today provided an open window into the minds and the techniques of the great makers of the past. In 1992, with the opening of a workshop in Carnegie Hall, he began to focus exclusively on creating new violins, violas and cellos. As Mr. Rabut celebrates his twenty eighth year in New York, he continues this dedication to new instruments in his workshop high above the rooftops in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. The spacious new studio has provided a wonderful creative and productive environment.