About us
Gregor Hänssler
Gregor Hänssler studied violin under Emilie Haudenschild at the Basel Academy of Music and under Rudolf Koelman and Alexander Sikowetsky at the Zürich University of the Arts. He has participated in master classes with Ana Chumachenco, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Nora Chastain, Thomas Zehetmair and the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt. Gregor Hänssler has concertized throughout Europe, in Brazil, in Iceland and in Dubai (Expo 2020), and as soloist he has appeared in the Konzerthaus of Freiburg im Breisgau and in Basel’s historic Symphony Hall. With the Atreus Piano Trio, he won 3rd prize in the Orpheus Competition and 1st prize in the Kiwanis Competition. In Fall 2018, he founded the Modulor Quartet devoted to classical and contemporary music for string quartet.
Beatrice Harmon studied violin at the Basel Academy of Music under Brigitte Füllemann and Emilie Haudenschild and, with a stipend from the Hans Huber Foundation, under Rudolf Koelman at the Zürich University of the Arts, completing her Bachelor there in 2019. Thanks to a stipend from the Friedl Wald Foundation, she completed her Master in Performance in Zurich under Anna Gebert in Summer 2022. As soloist, chamber- and orchestral-musician Beatrice Harmon has performed throughout Europe and in North and South America. She has gathered orchestral experience in the Sinfonieorchester Basel (traineeship, 2014-2016), Bern Symphony Orchestra (internship, 2020-2021) and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich (internship, 2021-2023). She is currently the concertmaster of the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Mila Krasnyuk
Born in Uzhgorod (Ukraine), Mila Krasnyuk began playing the violin and piano at the age of four and only five years later made her first appearance as a soloist with the ?Lviv Virtuosi? at the Lviv Philharmonic. In the following years she won several international competitions, which led to Numerous concerts in Ukraine, but also in the USA, throughout Europe and South America. At the age of 14, Mila completed her education at the Krushelnytska Music Gymnasium in Lviv and moved to Cologne to pursue a Bachelor's degree in violin. This was followed by a second bachetor's degree in viola at the Detmold University of Music and since September 2019, Mila has been studying the Master of Performance at the Zurich University of Arts. She is frequently invited to chamber music festivals, playing with such inspiring artists such as Guy Braunstein, Thomas Grossenhacher, Andreas Janke, Natalia Prishchepenko, Alena Baeva, Matan Porat, Claudio Bohorquez and Sunwook Kim, among others.
She also participated in numerous master classes and received inspiration from Leonidas Kavakos, Lawrence Power, Hariolf Schlichtig, Lars Anders Tomter, Garth Knox and Nils Ménkemeyer, among others.
Milena Umiglia
Milena Umiglia was born into a musician family and received her first cello lessons from her mother. At age 10, she began taking lessons with Rafael Rosenfeld and studied with him until obtaining the Bachelor degree at the Basel Academy of Music in 2018. Ever since, she’s been continuing her studies with Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zürich University of the Arts. Milena Umiglia has won numerous prizes, including 1st prizes at the Swiss Youth Music Competition (several of which «with distinction») and has recently received stipends from the Friedl Wald Foundation and the International Lyceum Club Zürich. She has participated in master classes with David Geringas and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and performed as «young festival artist» in the Zwischentöne festival in Engelberg, Cully Classique, and in festival quatres saisons. She gathered orchestral experience in the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra (SJSO) and, as sole Swiss member, in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra (2017). As soloist she has appeared with the Neues Orchester Basel, the Collegium Musicum Zug, the Slovakian Chamber Orchestra, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Central Switzerland and the Argovia Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2018 she was finalist in the cello competition Murten Classics and in 2020 a winner of the Schenk Soloist Competition. After having reached the final for the principal cello audition at the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in 2021, she’s been given an ad interim tutti-position in the orchestra.