About us
Bow Quest is made by a small team working between Finland and France. We started because getting our own children to practise every day was hard work. Then we teamed up with a violin teacher who saw the same struggle in her students.
Bow Quest began in 2019. We have three children, each playing a different instrument. They loved music, but practice was seldom on the fun list.
“A lot of work goes into simply getting the children to pick up the instrument, open the case, open the notes and start playing.”
So Tommi and Kata Koskivaara-Ilmonen came up with a game built around their instruments. Tommi wrote the code, Kata drew the first graphics, and the kids tested every version. Bow Quest launched in 2020 and has grown with new pieces and teacher features ever since.
A game can make practice fun. Making it teach well takes a teacher. Laure Tissino-Ramon, a violin and viola teacher, shaped Bow Quest into a real learning path: twelve areas on the map, each training one skill, from pizzicato in the Original Stream to double stops on the Twin Rivers.
“As a kid, my violin teacher kept telling me: this is not in tune. And I thought: OK, I know. But I don’t know where to move my finger.”
A small team with a game developer’s toolkit and a music teacher’s ear: Tommi builds Bow Quest in Finland, and Laure shapes its teaching from France.
CEO and Chief Engineer · Finland
Father of three young musicians and the engineer behind the software that listens to every note you play.
Chief Pedagogy Officer · France
Classically trained violin and viola teacher. Laure designed the twelve skill areas and around 200 pieces, with help from fellow teachers and composers. She still uses Bow Quest in her own lessons for sight-reading.
“We don’t want it to be fun for the sake of being fun.” Every part of the map trains a real violin skill, and every skill starts simple enough for a first lesson.
“It will never replace a teacher.” Teachers assign pieces and see how the whole week went, not only the lesson.
“In music, progress is often invisible.” Daily goals, stars and note-by-note feedback show children how far they have come.
“In the end, we all have the same goal: children who enjoy music.”
Ideas, wishes or something that does not work? Write to us at info@tadadaa.com. We read every message.