Every Pasch violin is an original: sound is always at its core, developed for the musician and crafted to give centuries of knowledge a contemporary, individual voice.
Pasch describes her instruments as sound sculptures. Five qualities shape this process: power, core, projection, colour and focus. Their balance gives each instrument its character and offers musicians a broad range of expressive possibilities and inspiration.
Pasch observes how musicians play, where an instrument responds freely and where resistance arises. Together, they develop an ideal of sound. From this dialogue emerge violins that shape, define and give voice to each musician’s individual sound.
Atos Trio and Professor of Violin at the Cologne University of Music and Dance
When we first met in 2015, Annette was playing the 1724 “Yfrah Neaman” Stradivarius, now played by Baiba Skride.
The Stradivarius had a beautiful, clear sound, and the challenge was to capture and match its strengths in the new instrument, while achieving an even greater harmony between violinist and violin.
Annette has very specific ideas about sound, which guide us in continually refining her violin. In this way, it becomes an ever-evolving sonic sculpture, finding its expression within the collective sound of the ATOS Trio.
