Jason Starkie cello, 2023, "Strad model", Seattle, USA | Metzler Violins[further details about this instrument are forthcoming] About the Maker Jason Starkie is a contemporary luthier based in Seattle. In 2001, Starkie began apprenticing under Robert Brewer Young at Viseltear & Young Violins. For the next decade, Starkie worked closely with Young, following him to Spain and France, before Starkie returned to the United States to open his own workshop in Seattle, Washington in 2011. In the years since, Starkie has