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.

Gabriele Ardizzone
Lisa Batiashvili
Zino Bogacheck
Emmanuelle Boisvert
François Brochot
Emile Cantor
Gérard Caussé
Philip Chao
Ye-Eun Choi
Amaury Coeytaux
Nick Cords
Manuela Costi
Ricardo Cyncynates
Giacomo Della Volta
Lindsay Deutsch
Glenn Dikterow
Tatiana Dimitriades
Enrico Dindo
Jacopo Di Tonno
Michael Dolan
Tim Eddy
Leonard Elshenbroich
Christian Ferras
Julia Fischer
Ken Freudigman
Miriam Fried
Elena Frikha
David Fulmer
Alexis Galperine
Robert Gendre
Maurice Gendron
Ivry Gitlis
Nell Gotkowski
Stephane Grappelli
Walter Grimmer
Ulrich Groener
Arthur Grumiaux
Narek Hakhnazarian
Lesley Hatfield
Lynn Harrell
Jakub Haufa
Susanna Yoko-Henkel
Peter Herresthal
Margherita Hoeglinger
Hans-Peter Hofmann
Maximilian Hornung
Ronald Hudson
Christof Huebner
Jay Ifshin
Aleksey Igudesman
Marc Jeanneret
Mihail Jojatu
Earl Johns
Roussanka Karatchivieva
Kim Kashkashian
Rudolf Koelman
Leonid Kogan
Hu Kun
Jacques Israelievitch
Jaime Laredo
Ying-Hao Lee
Laurent Le Flecher
Miranda Liu
Alfred Loewenguth
Malcolm Lowe
Fulvio Luciani
Rocco Malagoli
Elisa Martignoni
Lord Yehudi Menuhin
Alessandro Milani
Jonathan Miller
Alexander Moshnenko
Maurice Moulin
Luis Muñiz
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Ellen Nisbeth
Yumi Okada
Maria Oldak
Anna Olivari
Hartmut Ometzberger
Sarah Ovinge
Mikhail Ovrutsky
Janet Packer
Antonia & Raphael Paratore
Francesco Parrino
Parker Quartet
Amit Pelet
Domenico Petruzziello
Jean-Luc Ponty
Gérard Poulet
Igor Riva
Pauline Renk
Carol Rodland
Marcy Rosen
Mstislav Rostropovitch
Gregory Sandomirsky
Günter Sanin
Sébastien Savard
Alessandro Savio
Heinrich Schiff
Sacha Scolnik
Polina Sedukh
Ali Shariat
Peter Shidlof
Geneviève Simonot
Oksana Solovieva
Danny Spycher
Stefan Stalanowski
Arabella Steinbacher
Josef Suk
Henrick Szering
Tobias Steymans
Mathias Tacke
Kazutaka Takahashi
Chikashi Tanaka
Yukari Tate
Christian Tetzlaff
Kristopher Tong
Jean Trible
Tommaso Vannucci
Etienne Vatelot
Jean-Pierre Wallez
Michel Winthrop
Ana Witstruck
Richard Young
Misha Zaretsky
Paolo Zordanazzo


     " 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