Letters of recommendation

Dr. Kenneth Slowik, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.

Joseph Peknik III, The Metropolitan Museum, New York

Timothy Ingles, Sotheby's Auction House, London

John Pringle, violin and viola da gamba maker and expert, Cambridge, U.K. and North Carloina

Jean Michel Mercurol, Regisseur, France TV - 2

Claudine Salomon-Moutot, Festival director of Les Festes de Thalie, Thoiry, France

Ramón Taboada, Consell d'Eivissa (Ibiza, Spain)

Fernando Jaime Manuel Ribas, Director of the Conservatory of Ibiza

Principe Carlo Alessandro di Torre e Tasso, Castello di Duino, Italy

Beat Merz, Innovantiqua, Winterthur

Riccardo Chailly, Principal director of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam

Günter Jena, Director of the St. Michaelis Chor, Hamburg

Florian Heyerick, Director of Ex tempore, Gent, Belgium