The work quality of Nicolas Gilles is recognized by several distinctions :
• Sound price for a violin at the ” Steiner ” competition, Germany in 2001.
• Gold Medal for quartet, Gold Medal for viola, Silver medal for cello workmanship at the ” Violin Society of America ” competition in 2004, Portland, USA.
• Silver Medal for cello, certificate of achievement for viola and quartet at the « Violin Society of America » competition in 2006, Baltimore, USA.
• Silver Medal for quartet, certificate of achievement for cello at the « Violin Society of America » competition in 2008, Portland, USA.
• Silver Medal for cello, certificate of achievement for quartet at the « Violin Society of America » competition in 2010, Cleveland, USA.
• Finalist at the cello « Violoncelle-en-Seine » competition in 2010, Paris, France.
• Silver Medal for cello violin maker and Silver Medal for sound quartet at the « Violin society of America » competition in 2012, Cleveland, USA.
• Finalist at the cello making competition organized by Talents & Violon’ celles at Paris’s Philharmonie in 2022.
Nicolas Gilles Violin Maker in Villeneuvette - France
Making of violin, viola and cello