Silver mounted viola bow made by Vladimir Mukhin 2017, 69.3grams.                                      Vladimir was born in 1966 in Tschelyabinsk, in the Ural region of Russia, and started to play the violin. In 1986 he graduated and finished a Music College in Ural and became interested in the making of stringed instruments, especially bows. In 1993 he won a position in the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra. Vladimir was then invited to the Ural Conservatoire in 1995 as a violin restorer and began a workshop there.                                                                 In 2000 he had practical training at a workshop of Andreas Kaegi in Berlin. In 2002 Gregor Walbrodt received an apprenticeship at his workshop.

In 2006 Vladimir moved from Yekaterinburg for Moscow and set up my own workshop. 

In 2007 I took part in the Tschaikovsky competition, and won a silver medal. 

In 2010 I got a Certificate of Merit of the “Violin Society of America” competition for violin and viola bows.

In 2014 Vladimir was awarded the following awards:

- Mittenwald Competition: Bronze Medal Violin Bow

- 4 Prizes at the Violoncelle en Seine Competition in Paris :

  3 Coup de Coeur (J.F. Raffin, Josef P. Gabriel and Tim Baker)  & Coup de Coeur Public