About Lukas
Lukas Wronski, owner of Lukas Violins in NYC,
is a master luthier specializing in violin making, custom
violins, tonal sound adjustments, expert restorations, repairs,
appraisals, expertise, sales and complete servicing of
fine and rare stringed instruments and bows.
Instruments made by Lukas have received many awards and been
appreciated by many great musicians. Lukas has participated in a
variety of international violin making competitions and
exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and the United States in Poznan,
Paris, Cremona, Moscow, New York, Baltimore, Portland, and
Shanghai. In addition, he is an avid painter and has taken part
in numerous art exhibitions in Europe and the US. In 2019 he was
invited to judge the first “China Campus Violin- and Bow-making
Competition.”
Lukas Wronski was born in Poland into a centuries-old family
artistic tradition. Everyone in his family played an instrument,
the violin being the most highly prized. From childhood he was
surrounded by music and art. His parents, Jadwiga and Wojciech
Wronski, were both musicians and teachers. Lukas started playing
the violin at age 9. His experience as a luthier began at the
early age of 13, when he made his first violin at the atelier of
Adam Stalmach in his hometown of Limanowa. Lukas’s love of
music, violin making, and art launched his long years of study
in Poland and Italy, leading to the achievement of his Master of
Arts degree in violin making.
Education
Lukas graduated from Kenar's College of Arts in Zakopane,
Poland, in the string instrument making class under Stanislaw
Mardula. In 2002 he was awarded his Master of Arts degree with
honors from I.J. Paderewski’s Academy of Music in Poznan,
Poland, for his artistry in violin making and restoration under
Antoni Krupa. In the same year he received an award from the
Mayor of the City of Poznan for his extraordinary achievements.
His Master’s thesis was “Copies of Violins in the 18th to 20th
Centuries in the Development of Violin Making in Europe.” He
also holds a Post-graduate diploma in Culture Management from
the University of Social Skills in Poznan. After 9 years of long
and very intensive studies in Poland, Lukas moved in 2003 to
Cremona, Italy, where he worked in distinguished ateliers of
violin making. In 2008 he moved to New York, where he worked for
some of Manhattan’s most reputable makers and instrument
dealers.
Lukas Wronski opened his own violin making atelier, Lukas
Violins, in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 2012. In 2014 Lukas
moved his shop to 96th Street and Broadway, in the heart of
Manhattan’s Upper West Side, to better suit his clientele. His
shop quickly became one of the busiest and most trusted shops in
the New York area. His shop was featured in America’s popular TV
Show Handcrafted America. His work has been featured in TV
documentaries, talks, and journals.
Lukas is himself a musician, music producer and painter. As a
performer interested in various styles, he plays violin and
sings in jazz and world music ensembles.
