IRIS CARR

RESTORER OF FINE VIOLINS, VIOLAS & CELLOS

Iris Carr graduated from the Newark School of Violinmaking with distinction in 1996 and was offered a job at Charles Beare’s shop in London where she trained as a Violin Restorer with very experienced and skilled craftsmen, working on fine violins, violas and cellos.

After 8 years of working at J & A Beare, Iris set up her own restoration business in Suffolk in 2004, concentrating on major restoration projects which have included instruments by Antonio Stradivari, the Guarneri and Amati family and many more.

Since 2012, on top of her restoration work, Iris has been teaching restoration work and her specialised subject of retouching in the UK and abroad, including France, the USA, Japan, Poland and Belgium.

During Covid, in 2020, Iris created an online course in restoration work on violin neckgrafts which was published in 2021. Since then, she has offered another online course on crack repair and 3 Zoom lectures which were organised by the Rowan-Armour-Brown Trust.

Read more on my website iriscarrrestorations.com