Developer Profile

## Developer Profile

Maho Danis

A professional violinist with 25 years of experience, having performed over 2,500 concerts in 9 countries including Malaysia and Japan. Currently, she runs the "Danis International Violin English Conversation School," focusing on nurturing talent for the international stage, with students winning competitions and being dispatched to overseas academies.

The Story Behind Golierik

Through her lessons, she often observed "students whose posture was compromised by existing shoulder rests, or who would stop playing the violin due to fatigue." While continuously searching for a more natural and comfortable method, she encountered a cushion-style shoulder rest handcrafted by her mother-in-law (a violin professor from Czech Republic/Slovakia) for her son and students.

She was deeply moved by three discoveries: children could attach it themselves, it allowed for a natural posture just by resting the instrument, and it did not compromise the instrument's original sound. These insights led her to commercialize it as Golierik

She hopes that playing the violin can become "as natural, free, and self-expressive as possible."