This article is from page 30 of the 2008-01-08 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 30 JPG
EAST Clare virtuoso violinist, Eliz- abeth Cooney, hit the right note when she called in a political promise of
help to scale musical heights.
The 29-year old — one of the bright- est stars in the classical music world — set her heart on a 300-year old vio- rhe
The only problem was the price tag, which read €427,000.
But Elizabeth picked the instru- ment by Venice musical craftsmaster Matteo Goffriller in a London show-
rooms over 14 other violins, some with pice tags of a million Euro.
‘I just loved it the moment I played it. But I had to rack my brians to see what I could do,” Elizabeth told