Message de Lutherie UK
Newark School of Violinmaking closes its course
News has reached us that Newark School of Violin Making is not accepting students on its degree course as of September 2025. Current Foundation Year students will not be able to progress as they had expected.
The full story is on The Strad’s blog and you can sign an online petition . Please share this information with all your contacts.
We will keep you informed with information as we have it. If you want to make your views known, contact Ian Billyard, the Chair of the Board of Corporation for Lincoln College, which manages the Newark Course, email enquiries@lincolncollege.ac.uk . Newark residents may also contact their MP, robert.jenrick.mp@parliament.uk .
If anyone wants facts and figures, the digital copy of the history of NSVM that we produced for the 50th anniversary is here . Please feel free to circulate this link to anyone who might like to read about how influential and important this course is.