Christopher Sandvoss is an internationally recognized violin maker, musician, and pedagogue. He has been a full time violin maker for the past 20 years. Prior to this, Mr. Sandvoss had a career playing and teaching the viola at The University of Calgary. He originally studied violin with his mother, an early childhood music specialist, and viola with the eminent teachers Harold Gomez, John Thompson, and John Lowry. Mr. Sandvoss went on to work with some of the world’s legendary pedagogues, including Gerald Stanick, Hatto Beyerle, Karen Tuttle, Martha Strongin-Katz, and Donald McInnes.

He performed and taught at festivals in Europe and North America, and appeared as an orchestra musician, conductor, soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician on stage, radio, TV, and CD. Mr. Sandvoss was the founding violist of the internationally renowned Land’s End Ensemble, the 13th St. Trio, and the UCalgary quartet.

Mr Sandvoss has taught at The University of Calgary, and since 2015 at the Mount Royal University Conservatory where he teaches Violin, Viola, Chamber Music, facilitates the Viola Academy/AP Program and conducts the Conservatory Sinfonia.