Julia Maria Pasch is rooted in tradition and driven by curiosity. Inspired by centuries of violin making, she creates instruments in her Vienna atelier that carry the craft forward and belong unmistakably to the present.
Julia Maria Pasch began playing the violin at seven, but it was at a violin maker’s workbench in her hometown of Aachen that she found her place. What began as a fascination with the instrument soon became a search for what lies behind its sound. She trained at the violin-making school in Mittenwald before working with Stefan-Peter Greiner and physicist Heinrich Dünnwald. There, craftsmanship met acoustics: tradition became something not only to master, but to question, understand and develop further.
For Julia, tradition doesn’t mean reflecting on the past for it’s own sake. The great instruments of the past serve as inspiration. Not to be reproduced, but to carry forward the spirit of the old masters and create violins through a dialogue between past and future. Each instrument poses a question for the present: How do we want to sound today?
Today, Julia Maria Pasch lives and works in Richard Wagner’s former residence in Vienna. What matters to her is not nostalgia, but the perspective that working in these rooms offers: a daily reminder that respecting the masters does not mean imitating them.
