How to spend it
- Florian Leonhard
(The Financial Times, September 2008)
Investing in a fund that buys remarkable, rare violins and cellos and then loans them to gifted musicians benefits the instrument itself, the players' careers - and even one's bank balance, says Claire Wrathall. ...
Back in 2002, a 12-year-old from Cheshire called Jennifer Pike was named BBC Young Musician of the Year. She won the competition playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor on a Stradivarius borrowd from the Royal Academy of Music, on eof an estimated 550 such instruments still in existence. ...
