Michael Griffin

Michael Griffin has played in the RPO since 1994 and holds degrees from Indiana University-Bloomington. Griffin has played in the Syracuse Symphony, Albany Symphony, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and St. Cecilia Chamber Orchestra, and has taught bass students at Ithaca College.

In addition to performing with the RPO, Griffin owns and operates Luthier’s Care, specializing in hand making violin family instruments in the Cremonese tradition. He builds on models of Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri “del Gesu”, Amati, and his own design. His forty-plus years’ experience includes restorations and repairs of violin family instruments and their bows.

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