Who plays a Rolland bow?

Long after Josef Suk called Rolland bows “fantastic” and Lord Menuhin dubbed them “a gift for the musician”, Rolland bows captivate yet other generations of star string players like Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lynn Harrell, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Christian Tetzlaff and Julia Fischer.

More than 1,300 string players and collectors acquired Rolland bows. The following lists but a few names, an evocation of the full body of musicians playing Rollands.

Lisa Batiashvili
Zino Bogacheck
Emile Cantor
Gérard Caussé
Philip Chao
Amaury Coeytaux
Nick Cords
Ricardo Cyncynates
Lindsay Deutsch
Glenn Dikterow
Michael Dolan
Tim Eddy
Leonard Elshenbroich
Christian Ferras
Julia Fischer
Miriam Fried
David Fulmer
Alexis Galperine
Robert Gendre
Maurice Gendron
Ivry Gitlis
Nell Gotkowski
Stephane Grappelli
Walter Grimmer
Arthur Grumiaux
Lesley Hatfield
Lynn Harrell
Susanna Yoko-Henkel
Peter Herresthal
Hans-Peter Hofmann
Ronald Hudson
Christof Huebner
Jay Ifshin
Marc Jeanneret
Mihail Jojatu
Earl Johns
Roussanka Karatchivieva
Kim Kashkashian
Rudolf Koelman
Leonid Kogan
Hu Kun
Jacques Israelievitch
Jaime Laredo
Laurent Le Flecher
Alfred Loewenguth
Malcolm Lowe
Fulvio Luciani
Lord Yehudi Menuhin
Jonathan Miller
Alexander Moshnenko
Maurice Moulin
Luis Muñiz
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Yumi Okada
Mikhail Ovrutsky
Janet Packer
Parker Quartet
Jean-Luc Ponty
Gérard Poulet
Pauline Renk
Marcy Rosen
Mstislav Rostropovitch
Sébastien Savard
Heinrich Schiff
Polina Sedukh
Ali Shariat
Peter Shidlof
Geneviève Simonot
Danny Spycher
Stefan Stalanowski
Arabella Steinbacher
Josef Suk
Henrick Szering
Tobias Steymans
Mathias Tacke
Chikashi Tanaka
Yukari Tate
Christian Tetzlaff
Kristopher Tong
Jean Trible
Etienne Vatelot
Jean-Pierre Wallez
Michel Winthrop
Ana Witstruck
Richard Young
Misha Zaretsky


     " I wish to thank many more Musicians and Concertmasters who play my bows in orchestras Worldwide;
     Each musician coming to the studio brings insights and energy to perfect the bows;
     Major soloists steadily offered time and attention to my work. I am grateful to them for their generosity and dedication;
     May the bows faithfully serve their talent.”

     Benoît Rolland