Claude Bourquard
Luthier
Saint-Brais
About
« A contact with a magic guitar made my sensitivity for this instrument vibrate and sparked my passion. »
Claude Bourquard was born in 1963 in Delémont. Self-taught, he was introduced to the ranges of the luthier during several stays in Dharamsala, India.
It was in 1997 that he opened his own workshop, in Saint-Brais, to develop all the finesse and subtleties of guitar making: a dream which, like a boomerang, tormented him and which, today, nourishes his passion intensely.
In his workshop, where he creates and manufactures Célestine guitars, where he restores instruments (from the violin to the double bass), everything exudes precision.
« I’m always looking for the perfect sound. And my investigations even led me to create a guitar without a sound box. »
It is in a way the meticulousness of watchmaking applied to the search for musical purity and the delicate juxtaposition of the quintessence of the essences that make up certain ornaments. The atmosphere is not one of improvisation but of the cult of perfection.
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Distinction
2015 Artisan 2015, JEMA Jura
Connections
Canal Alpha: http://www.canalalpha.ch/emissions/avisdepassage/avis-de-passage-claude-bourquard/
Arc Hebdo: http://www.archebdo.ch/rubriques/pr%C3%A8s-de-chez-vous/375-claude-le-luthier.html
BNJ TV: http://www.bnj.tv/fr/Video.html?idn=528&id=1252
RTS: http://www.rts.ch/emissions/passe-moi-les-jumelles/1309369-plus-pres-du-ciel.html
Paticipation ACD
GOOD 2018 Jura
Canton
Arts Crafts
Domain
The artistic professions of instrument making
Other
Accessible by public transport
Car park nearby
Address
Enson-la-Fin 1
2364 Saint-Brais
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