I was born in Tirana on 10th of May 1970.

After completing the Sami Frashri high school in Tirana, I was enrolled at the University of Tirana, the Economic Faculty to study Economic Planning. In the meantime, since the age of 16, I studied classical guitar mentored by some of the best Albanian guitarist players of the time, i.e. Mehdi Prodani, Edison Misja and more. On the third year of my University studies, I took the decision to interrupt my student life in Albania and emigrate. The passion for playing classical guitar guided me to Romania where I could follow my guitar studies with private lecturers. On February 1994 I made it to Italy (Treviso) where I managed to have guitar lessons from Master Steffano Grondona; later I moved town to town from Brescia, Bergamo, Milan and to Bologna were I performed in many concerts for classical guitar and violin with a rich repertoire including authors like Bach, Paganini, Villa Lobos etc. My last destination in Italy was Cremona where I settled by the end of 1995. The main ambition to take me in Cremona was the curiosity on the secrets of construction and sound of the instruments I was playing. Since Cremona is considered the world capital of the violin, I got myself registered at the International Institute Antonio Stradivari, (IIAS) the branch of Violin Making where I studied hand- production and restoration of arch instruments. In this Institute, I had the privilege to study with some of the most important masters Violin Makers in Cremona such as M.Tadioli, G. Ce, M. Negroni, P. Pistoni, H. Lois, A. Voltini, C. Amighetti, T. Matsushita, Giovanni Lucchi, E. Slaviero, Julia Schaizenbach etc. On 1996, I received a one year scholarship from the Valter Stauffer Foundation as the best student of the previous school year. At the same time, just few months after I got enrolled in IIAS, I started to work as an assistant in one of the most well-known Violin Making laboratories in Cremona. I was motivated to start working by both the desire to practice more than my normal class hours as well as the need to have some extra income for living in the rich Northern Italian town. Initially, my work in the laboratory consisted of preparing specific parts of the violin: I carved the scrolls, finger boards, neck and later on preparing the ribs etc Progressively, I gained the skills to handmade the entire instrument by meticulously implementing all the construction phases: from selecting the timber pieces up to the varnishing of the instrument. In each of the steps of my progress, I was supported and supervised by the laboratory masters. Practicing year after year, I gained a great deal of experience in constructing the instrument, varnishing it, tunning set etc. Moreover, the knowledge and experience gathered allowed and motivated me to start experimenting with the harmony of the violins part in search for best possible sound: an example is how the production of the belly and of the back influences the sound. It is important to note that experience is what makes the sound differ between the instruments produced by a professional violin maker and the one produced in the factory.

After five years of study at IPIALL, I graduated in 1999 with great results. In 2001, I started studying again: this time I got enrolled in a three year course for Bow making. I am a devoted follower of the classical violin models of Cremona: Guarnieri, Stradivari, Amati: nevertheless, I am intrigued by other violin making schools such as the ones from Emilia, Milan, Markegean, Liguria etc. My very first instrument, obviously a violin, is a copy of a Stradivari violin and is part of my collection ever since it was made in 1998. The instruments I have made are now playing in several countries across the world: Canada, USA, Columbia, Brazil, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Rumania, Czech Republic, Greece, Bulgaria, Argentine, South Korea, Japan and Australia. On the south of 2002, I took part in the International Festival called I Mozzartini Festival (the festival of the Moxartians) in Napoli (Montecorvino Rovella). I was appointed to be the Official Violin Maker of the festival so I was in charge of taking care of the instruments performing during the Festival. I was also given the chance to display my instruments (viola and violins mostly). I have had working relationship with musicians and luthiers from 25 countries, other than Italy. Since 2004, I have open my laboratory in my own country: address is Rruga Irfan Tomini Pallati 10/2, Shkalla 4, Apartamenti 52). My working philosophy is to continuously seek perfection at the instruments I make: the work and also materials that I use in the Violin Making (most importantly wood and varnish), have to be of the highest quality possible.