Florian Leonhard

Florian Leonhard (born in Düsseldorf 1963) is a London-based violin dealer and restorer.[1]

His firm, Florian Leonhard Fine Violins, has restored and supplied instruments by Stradivarius and the Guarnerius family for a number of renowned players including Leonidas Kavakos, Daniel Hope, Julian Lloyd Webber and Alina Ibragimova as well as to competition winners.[2]

Florian Leonhard has appeared on BBC,[3] CNBC,[4] and in the Economist,[5] on subjects relating to investment in instruments[6][7][8] and their preservation. He was a jury member at the Benjamin Britten, Karol Lipinski, Henryk Wieniawsky and George Enescu violin competitions.. He was on the jury of the 2012 Israeli Music Competition & Ernest Bloch Music Competition.[9]

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