Gao Tong Tong, started to play violin as a child; and begun his career of violin making in 1982.

Graduated from Beijing Violin Making School and Central Conservatory of Music in his earlier years; and then pursued his advanced studies in the International Violin Making School in Cremona while he apprenticed with Maestro Gio Batta Morassi at Maestro’s workshop for five years and returned to China in 1996 with excellent results.

Participated in various international violin-making competitions, being awarded with prizes which mainly include:
1993 Liuteria Artistica Cremonese in the 4th Baveno Violin Making Competition.
1994 Final Prize in the Tchaikovsky II International Violin Makers’ Competition.
1994 The 6th Prize for violin and the 7th Prize for viola in the 7th Triennale Internazionale di Cremona.
1995 Three gold medals for violin and cello in the 5th Baveno Violin Making Competition.
1996 Bronze Medal in the 9th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Making Competition. Being the first Chinese winner since the competition set up in 1957.

He officially registered Gao Tong Tong Violin Making Workshop in Beijing in 1998. Following the principle of artistica liuteria Italian style, he personally finalized the whole processes of instrument-making and was also engaged in the professional repairs and restores for classic and modern string instruments.

His instruments are played and privately collected by musicians from various countries and regions, such as Italy, Austria, Germany, America, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hongkong, etc. Many Chinese musicians participated in international competitions with the instruments made by GAO TONG TONG and were awarded gold prizes which can be said as unprecedented such as gold prize in Primrose International Viola Competition – Chinese musicians with instruments made by Chinese.