Federico Abraham was born in Mendoza, Argentina and now lives in Basel.
After completing his double bass studies in his hometown, he studied early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, jazz at the Jazzschule Basel, and music education at the Zurich University of the Arts.
He works as a freelance musician in the fields of early music, classical music, jazz, and tango. He has performed with orchestras and ensembles such as La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Il Profondo Ensemble, Chiave d'Arco, La Centifolia, Musique des Lumières, Cardinal Complex, Orchestra of Europe, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Capella Gabetta, Capriccio Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Artaserse, and others.
As a non-classical double bassist, he has played jazz concerts in Switzerland and numerous tango concerts with martes_tango and Orquesta Silencio in many European countries, as well as Argentina and Lebanon. Since 2018, he has led his own jazz project, the Federico Abraham Quartet.
Federico Abraham teaches double bass and electric bass at the music schools Windisch and Prova (Winterthur), as well as privately in Basel.

Federico Bosco has always been dedicated to chamber music, his preferred discipline. A first prize winner at the Salieri-Zinetti Chamber Music Competition in Verona, the Sandro Fuga Competition in Turin, and the Orpheus Competition in Bern, he is highly sought after as a musical partner and accompanist. He is regularly invited to festivals, masterclasses, and competitions, and has participated in masterclasses led by musicians such as Leonidas Kavakos, Steven Isserlis, Philippe Griffin, and Jean-Jacques Kantorow.

 He has performed on renowned stages such as the Lucerne Festival, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Salzburg Chamber Music Festival, the Granada Festival, the Swiss Chamber Music Festival in Adelbode, the Malta International Arts Festival and others.

 He has released two albums with cellist Beatriz Blanco. As a soloist, he has performed with the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Turin Conservatory, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Theater für Niedersachsen.

 He worked as a conductor and assistant at the Theater für Niedersachsen Hannover, as well as at the Theater St. Gallen and for the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

 He studied at the Turin Conservatory under Claudio Voghera, in Italy under Andrea Lucchesini and Filippo Gamba,  later on in Basel under Adrian Oetiker. He got important inputs from, among many, Homero Francesch, Aldo Ciccolini, Alicia de Larrocha, Edson Elias.

The Argentinian-Brazilian violinist Juan María Braceras is a passionate chamber musician and versatile artist whose career encompasses a wide range of musical genres and forms of expression. After studying at the Haute École de Musique de Genève with Margarita Piguet-Karafilova and Gábor Takács, and at the Basel Academy of Music in the class of Adelina Oprean and Amandine Beyer, he graduated with a soloist diploma. He has performed at festivals and with ensembles such as the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Geneva Camerata, the Basel Sinfonietta, Anima Eterna, and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, and has collaborated with artists including Dana Ciocarlie, Christophe Coin, Pablo Márquez, and the Quatuor Mosaïques. Alongside his intensive concert schedule, he is involved in cross-genre projects – from Brazilian popular music and tango to contemporary dance.

Martin Egidi belongs to a new generation of versatile musicians, driven by a passion for the wide sound spectrum ranging from early music to contemporary repertoire.

​Born in Lausanne, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree with highest honors in the class of Patrick Demenga, followed by a Master’s degree at the Musik-Akademie Basel under Danjulo Ishizaka in 2020. He has further refined his artistry through masterclasses with internationally renowned musicians such as David Geringas, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Rainer Schmidt, Steven Isserlis and Stephan Forck. In 2019, he was awarded the Migros Pourcent Culturel Prize and joined its concert placement program.

​Alongside this path, Martin has developed a strong passion for historical performance practice. He studied baroque cello at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Christophe Coin and Petr Skalka, which has led him to perform with renowned ensembles such as Il Pomo d’Oro, Arcangelo, the Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble, and the Kammerorchester Basel. In 2025, he won the First Prize at the International Van Wassenaer Competition at the Utrecht Early Music Festival with his ensemble Ossian’s Dream, dedicated to historically informed interpretations of Classical and Romantic repertoires.

​Since his early career, Martin has appeared at distinguished festivals in Switzerland and abroad — including Davos, Lavaux Classic, Musikdorf Ernen, Heidelberger Frühling, Into the Open, and IMS Prussia Cove — and collaborates with a variety of chamber music formations, among them the duo naïa with percussionist Augustin Lipp, the Opalio Piano Quintet, and the Trio Zeitgeist. With the latter, he has won three prizes at the Orpheus Competition (2022) as well as the First Prize at the Paul Juon Chamber Music Competition (2023).

Finally, Martin Egidi is actively involved in collective musical life: he is part of the shared artistic direction of the Orchestre des Jeunes de Suisse Romande, where he is committed both to performance and to fostering the next generation of musicians.

Romanian-born musician Ilinca Forna is an active violinist and violist based in Switzerland. Equally at home across a wide range of repertoire, she performs regularly in contexts spanning folk music, improvisation, historically informed performance, chamber music, and occasionally her own compositions.

Ilinca began her studies in her hometown of Cluj-Napoca with violinist Ramona Telcean and Răsvan Dumitru, later continuing with violist Aida-Carmen Soanea in Klagenfurt. She has refined her artistry in masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Remus Azoiței, David Grimal, and Mihaela Martin and many others, while maintaining a strong dedication to chamber music since an early age. This has led her to appear at festivals including SoNoRo, Encuentro de Santander, Enescu Festival, Lumieres d’Europe or Gstaad Menuhin Festival. 

She is currently in the class of Silvia Simionescu at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, where she also develops her chamber music practice under the guidance of Anna Gebert and other professors. She is a member of the Nova Programme of the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Orchestra and was an academist of the Kammerorchester Basel for the 2024–2025 season. Her orchestral experience further includes performances with the Gstaad Festival Orchestra and guest appearances with the Romanian Radio Orchestra.

Beyond performance, Ilinca is deeply committed to exploring new forms of artistic expression and to making music accessible to diverse audiences. She often integrates interdisciplinary elements into her work, including her own visual art and drawings. Guided by the belief that art can illuminate and transform, she seeks to create performances that offer moments of connection and brightness, even if only for an evening, in today’s ever-troubled world.

Ilinca plays a viola made by luthier Francisc Gyorke and a D. S. Finkel bow kindly gifted to her by Christoph Schiller.

Thai cellist Ekachai Maskulrat began playing the cello at the age of fifteen and later studied in Singapore, the USA, and Switzerland. His teachers include Apichai Liamthong, Gudula Urban, Martin Grund, Li-wei Qin, Amit Peled, Thomas Demenga, Christophe Coin, and Petr Skalka. A versatile musician, he moves with equal passion between chamber music, solo performance, early and contemporary music, and rock. He is a member of several ensembles, including Ensemble Sonorità, Girandola Consort, Ensemble Quadrel, Van der Waals, and Cell of Hell. Since 2012, he has performed regularly with the Camerata Zürich, the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, and the Basel Festival Orchestra, and has served as principal cellist with, among others, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Geneva Camerata, the Basel Sinfonietta, the I Tempi Chamber Orchestra, and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie.

Bolivian soprano Camila Meneses de Pamorskis completed her Master's degree in Music Education in 2023 and her Master's degree in Music Performance at the Lucerne School of Music in 2021, having already obtained her Bachelor's degree in Singing at the Basel Academy of Music in 2019.

Her artistic career has taken her to numerous stages both in Switzerland and abroad. Recent appearances include gala concerts as a guest soloist with the “Voices for Bolivia” project in Madrid (2025) and with the Cochabamba Philharmonic (2025), as well as organizing the “Melodic Visit” concert series in Bolivia. In 2023 and 2024, she was the soprano soloist in the Christmas concert series with the Aarau Tower Brass Ensemble.

At the Lucerne Theatre, she portrayed the role of Judith in Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" in the 2022/2023 season and made her debut as Berta in Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" in the 2020/2021 season. Further engagements have taken her to festivals such as the Vivace Music Festival (Bolivia) and the Crescendo Festival (Hungary).

A prizewinner in several competitions, she most recently reached the semifinals of the Maria Callas Competition (São Paulo, 2026) and won third place at the Juan Carlos Gebelin Latin American Competition (Montevideo, 2025). Previous awards include second place at the Rahn Cultural Fund Competition (Zurich, 2021) and second place at the Marianne and Kurt Dienemann Song Competition (Lucerne, 2020).

Stéphanie Meyer, born in Montreal, received her initial musical training at the conservatory in her hometown in the class of Dorothy Bégin, and later at McGill University with Antonio Lysy. She continued her studies with Thomas Demenga at the Basel Academy of Music. After receiving her soloist diploma, she turned to playing the Baroque cello under the tutelage of Christoph Coin at the Schola Cantorum Basel. As a guest at major festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Lucerne, Davos, and Prussia Cove, she is grateful for formative encounters with musicians including Steven Isserlis, Ferenc Rados, Ralph Kirshbaum, Janos Starker, Philippe Muller, Erich Höbarth, Sergio Azzolini, and György Kurtág. For several years, she was principal cellist of the Camerata Bern and the Kammerakademie Potsdam and participated in projects with the Cappella Andrea Barca under András Schiff. She was a long-time member of the Basel String Quartet and is currently a member of the Phoenix Ensemble Basel.

Matthias Müller, born in Winterthur in 1978, initially studied at the Zurich-Winterthur University of Music with Rudolph Koelman, then at the Freiburg University of Music with Nicolas Chumachenco, and finally with Christoph Poppen at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. He also received important artistic inspiration as a member of the Carmina Quartet in chamber music. Since 2006, he has been a member and assistant principal pianist of the Basel Chamber Orchestra. In recent years, historically informed performance practice has become increasingly important to Matthias Müller. He is also principal pianist of the Cappella Gabetta and performs regularly with the Ensemble Café Zimmermann, the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, and the Orchestre de Limoges under the direction of Christophe Coin. As a chamber musician, he performs in various ensembles and, together with Georg Dettweiler, also a member of the Basel Chamber Orchestra, founded the piano trio Cerasus, which is dedicated to the classical and romantic genres of piano music. In addition, he has been a member of the Camerata Zürich since 2013 and receives regular invitations as guest concertmaster with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Sinfonietta, and the Geneva Camerata. Since 2017, Matthias Müller has taught as an assistant to Professor Igor Karsko at the Lucerne School of Music and lives in Basel with his two daughters.

Kazumi Suzuki Krapf was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music. She then moved to Germany, where she earned her artist diploma, concert exam, and – as a founding member of the Trio Rinascimento (2004-2008) – completed additional studies in chamber music with the Alban Berg Quartet at the Cologne University of Music and chamber music courses at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with the Artemis Quartet in Brussels.

She has won numerous prizes at international competitions, including second prize and the Paolo Borciani Prize at the 23rd International Michelangelo Abbado Violin Competition in Milan, and third prize at the 12th International Alberto Curci Violin Competition in Naples. As a soloist, she has performed with various orchestras, including the Nagoya Symphony Orchestra and the Bonn Classical Philharmonic.

She currently lives with her family in Basel, regularly plays with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and the Basel Symphony Orchestra, as well as in various ensembles as a chamber musician.