Bowed Instrument Repairs
One of the most important factors of owning a musical instrument is the ongoing service and repairs that needed throughout its life. With a good set-up you can transform a mediocre instrument into an excellent one, and at the Music Gallery we can offer excellent advice, repairs and set-ups courtesy of Eugenie Degan, who is independent, but based in the shop.
Eugenie Graduated as a Baroque cellist from the Paris Schola Cantorum in 1999 having studied with Erwan Faure and received her music and cello B.Mus. from Paris conservatoire in 2000.
After some years playing full time in Symphony and Chamber orchestras, as well as teaching cello, Eugenie went to study violin making at London Metropolitan University where she graduated in 2005 with distinction. She trained in well known London workshops such as J.PGuivier and F.Leonhard; she carried out her repair and restoration apprenticeship for a further 3 years with Peter Ratcliff in his Brighton workshop.
Thanks to her work and experience with Peter Ratcliff she has been able to become a Queen Elizabeth Trust Scholar in July 2007 following full restoration work on a Thomas Urquhart violin, London circa 1670.
When time allows, Eugenie still enjoys playing free-lance in some of the London Orchestras, and as a cellist and musician herself, appreciates and understands the string players needs.