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Jason Price

Jason studied the cello from the age of eight and became interested in violin making and restoration at age fourteen while searching for his first serious cello. In summers during high-school he worked for Reuning & Son Violins in Ithaca, NY and for bowmaker Donald Cohen in Alexandria, VA.

At the age of 18, Jason enrolled at Cremona’s school of violin making, but lasted just two weeks there before deciding to study with Renato Scrollavezza in Parma. After living and working in Cremona and Parma for three years and completing nine and a half violins he returned to the US, where he took up a degree in English Literature at Williams College in Massachusetts.

It was towards the end of Jason’s degree course that the idea of starting Tarisio with Christopher Reuning and Dmitry Gindin was born, and together they launched the company in 1999. In 2010 Jason purchased the business from Gindin and Reuning although they continue to serve as consultants for expertise and consignment acquisitions to the firm.

As a violin expert, avid photographer and technology enthusiast Jason enjoys Tarisio’s unique fusion of violin expertise and 21st-century technology and wonders what yesteryear giants like Strad, Vuillaume, and the Hills would say of Tarisio’s new approach to violin sales and expertise.

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