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Francesco Massimino is an Italian cellist based in Basel. He studied at the ‘G. Verdi’ Conservatory in Turin, then at the Stauffer Center for Strings with Antonio Meneses, before earning a Master’s degree in cello with highest honors at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, in the class of Thomas Demenga.
Massimino made his solo debut with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino and has since performed in Europe and Asia. Among his recent highlights: Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Sinfonieorchester Basel (2023) and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taipei (2024).
A passionate chamber musician, he is a founding member of Trio Concept (formerly Trio Chagall), awarded prizes in Trieste, Schoenfeld (2023), and at the Verbier Festival (2024). In 2025/26, the trio will embark on a European tour as an ECHO Rising Star.
He plays a cello by Gaetano Sgarabotto (L’Oro del Reno, 1948).
Edoardo Grieco is an Italian violinist based in Basel. He studied at the Conservatorio “Giuseppe Verdi” of Turin, followed by postgraduate degrees in Chamber Music and Performance from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, graduating with highest honours under Anton Kernjak and Rainer Schmidt.
He is a founding member of Trio Concept (formerly Trio Chagall), winners of First Prize at the Schoenfeld International Competition and recipients of the Prix Yves Paternot at the 2024 Verbier Festival. The trio was also named a YCAT Artist (2023) and ECHO Rising Star (2024)—the first Italian ensemble to receive both distinctions.
Grieco has performed at Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Musikverein, Barbican, and the Verbier Festival, and as a soloist with orchestras in Taipei and Ravenna. He regularly gives masterclasses and is active as a chamber musician.
He plays a 1766 Pietro Antonio Landolfi violin, generously loaned by Irene R. Miller through the Beares International Violin Society.
Edoardo Grieco is an Italian violinist based in Basel. He studied at the ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Conservatory in Turin, and then obtained postgraduate degrees in chamber music and performance at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, with the highest honours, in the classes of Anton Kernjak and Rainer Schmidt.
He is a founding member of Trio Concept (formerly Trio Chagall), winner of the First Prize at the Schoenfeld International Competition and the Yves Paternot Award at the Verbier Festival 2024. The trio was also named a YCAT Artist (2023) and an ECHO Rising Star (2024), thus becoming the first Italian ensemble to achieve both distinctions.
Grieco has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Elbphilharmonie, the Musikverein, the Barbican, and the Verbier Festival, and as a soloist with orchestras in Taipei and Ravenna. He regularly gives masterclasses and is actively dedicated to chamber music.
He plays a 1766 Pietro Antonio Landolfi violin, generously loaned by Irene R. Miller through the Beares International Violin Society.
Hailing from Thessaloniki, Greece, cellist Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin gained international recognition by winning first prize at the prestigious Paulo International Cello Competition in Finland. He has since been invited to perform as a soloist with leading orchestras, including the Kansas City Symphony – where he made his American debut under the baton of Robert Spano – as well as the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Israel Camerata, the NEC Philharmonia, and the symphony orchestras of Athens, Thessaloniki, and Lahti. Deeply committed to chamber music, he has participated in numerous renowned festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival, Chamberfest Cleveland, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars, and the Dimitria Festival.
Hailed as the new face of classical guitar worldwide, Raphaël Feuillâtre fascinates audiences and critics alike with the depth of his interpretations, his dazzling virtuosity, and the richness of his repertoire.
Winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America competition in 2018 (USA) and ADAMI’s “Classical Revelation 2021”, Raphaël was chosen as an exclusive artist by the label Deutsche Grammophon in 2022. He is, to date, one of the very few guitarists to have signed with this legendary label. This fruitful collaboration gave birth to his debut album “Visages Baroques” in 2023, which displays different facets of the Baroque aesthetic. His second album, Spanish Serenades, features masterpieces from the Spanish repertoire, including works by Albéniz, Granados, Llobet, Rodrigo, and Tárrega. It includes one of Granados’s Danzas españolas with violinist María
Dueñas, as well as the legendary Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo, recorded with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.
Following his acclaimed debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2023, he has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals – including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the “Folle Journée” in Nantes, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Beethoven Haus in Bonn – as well as at major guitar events such as the Festival International de Guitare de Paris, the Festival Guitarras del Mundo in Argentina, the Changsha International Guitar Festival in China.
His passion for chamber music and his desire to champion his instrument in this repertoire has led him to collaborate with musicians of the highest calibre: recorder player Lucie Horsch, trumpet player Lucienne Renaudin Vary and violinist Maria Dueñas in venues such as Deutsche Grammophon’s Yellow Lounge, the Dresden Music Festival, Schleswig Holstein Festival, Cité de la Musique de Paris, and the Società del Quartotto Di Milano – Scala G. Verdi.
Born in Djibouti in 1996, Raphaël was introduced to the guitar by his first teacher, Hacène Addadi, before joining Michel Grizard’s class at the Conservatoire de Nantes in 2012. Three years later, he entered the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the classes of Roland Dyens and Tristan Manoukian.
In addition to winning first prize at the GFA, Raphaël has forged a strong reputation in the classical guitar world by winning the following competitions: Jose Tomas International Guitar Competition in Villa Petrer (Spain – 2017), Kutna Hora International Guitar Festival (Czech Republic – 2017), Viseu International Spring Music Festival (Portugal – 2016), Fontenay-sous-Bois Guitar Competition & Festival (France – 2015), and Ciudad de Coria International Guitar Festival (Spain – 2014).
An ambassador for the guitar and keen to contribute to the development of its repertoire, Raphaël has arranged numerous works from the repertoire of instruments he loves – with a particular predilection for keyboard instruments such as the piano and harpsichord – a taste particularly reflected in his choice of programmes for his recordings.
Driven by a desire to pass on his passion for music and the guitar, Raphaël teaches at the Pôle Supérieur – Bretagne and is co-founder of the Lille Guitar Academy, a summer academy for guitarists. Students from all over the world receive his guidance at masterclasses given at the San Francisco Conservatory, the Manhattan School in New York and the Haute École de Musique in Geneva. He is also involved in projects to raise awareness of the arts, particularly following a tour in the USA during which he took part in several activities in schools and prisons.
Raphaël Feuillâtre is supported by Savarez, a historic string-manufacturing company founded in 1770, and plays a guitar by Australian luthier Greg Smallman.
Joh Erba effortlessly navigates between funk, jazz, afrobeat, house, and techno. Since his radio debut in 1992, he has carved out a unique voice as a DJ and producer, releasing compilations on various labels at the intersection of modern soul and electronic jazz — works guided by instinct and boundless musical curiosity.
A key producer at Couleur 3, he has hosted Les Métissages since 2000, as well as Electro libre, Buena Onda, and Youkounkoune on Option Musique (RTS). He also lends his creativity to television, where he designs opening credits and sound branding.
Behind the decks, Joh has been a resident DJ at Montreux Jazz Café, Cully Jazz Festival, and MAD, and has performed worldwide: from Twilo in New York to Bataclan and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, as well as Pacha in Ibiza, Tokyo, London, Amsterdam, and many others.
Some of his creations — including tributes to Philippe Zdar (Cassius) and Serge Gainsbourg — are broadcast by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the world’s largest alliance of public service media.
British-Russian baritone Theodore Platt, celebrated for his ‘warm and powerful English baritone’ (Music OMH), is one of opera’s most promising young voices. A recent member of the Bayerische Staatsoper Opera Studio, he was awarded the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust (BBT) Fellowship.
The 2024/25 season marks a new chapter for Theodore Platt, as he joins the ensemble of the Copenhagen Opera, marking a significant milestone in his career. In this capacity, he takes on several important roles, showcasing his versatility as a baritone across various operatic styles. These include his debut as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Lord Cecil in Maria Stuarda, and his debut as the titular character Figaro in Gioachino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Mr. Platt’s concert season includes an appearance at the Eppaner Liedsommer classical music festival in South Tyrol, Italy, where he will give a recital alongside pianist Keval Shah. Under the direction of Roberto Gonzales-Monjas, Theodore Platt performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg.
Theodore Platt was featured on Jonathan Tetelman’s Deutsche Grammophon album ‘The Great Puccini,’ where he performed the role of Marcello in excerpts from La bohème. With the Culiner Creative Circle, Platt and Keval Shah produced audiovisual performances of Jean Sibelius’s ‘Var det en Dröm?’ and Samuel Barber’s ‘O boundless, boundless evening,’ intended for online release across various streaming platforms.
A sought-after concert artist, the baritone made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2019 as part of Graham Johnson’s Songmakers recital series. In 2021, he performed at the Oxford Lieder Festival and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. In 2018-19, Theodore Platt participated in the inaugural French Song Exchange at Wigmore Hall, working closely with Felicity Lott and François Le Roux, and culminating in recitals in London and Paris. In 2022, he returned to Wigmore Hall for a recital alongside Malcolm Martineau.
Platt is the grateful recipient of awards from the 64th Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, the Copenhagen Lied Duo Competition, the Lies Askonas Competition, and the Joan Chissell Schumann Competition. He also received the Thierry Mermod Prize at the Verbier Festival. In 2022, Theodore Platt and Keval Shah won first prize at the 13th International Art Song Competition Stuttgart. The duo performed works by Franz Schubert, Vivian Fung, Hugo Wolf, Frank Bridge, and Benjamin Britten.
Born in London, Mr. Platt studied music at St John’s College, Cambridge, and is an alumnus of the Verbier Festival Academy and the Royal College of Music Opera Studio. He participated in the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (IMA), leading to performances with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and a Schubert recital that was broadcast on BR-Klassik.
Prof. Dr. René M. Müri is a neurologist and rehabilitation specialist with a distinguished academic and clinical background. For more than two decades, he headed the University Neurorehabilitation Unit at Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, where he earned both titular (2005) and associate (2008) professorships at the University of Bern. A pioneer in integrating biomedical engineering into clinical care, he currently serves as Clinical Group Head of the Gerontechnology & Rehabilitation Group at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern. Since September 2021, he has also been Associate Chief Physician at Rehaklinik Zihlschlacht and Chief Scientific Officer of VAMED Schweiz. His research focuses on cognitive-motor rehabilitation, non-invasive brain stimulation, neuro-ophthalmology, and the development of virtual reality and robotic systems for clinical use, with numerous influential publications that have shaped contemporary neurorehabilitation practices.
Karol Beffa is a French-Swiss composer, pianist, and musicologist. A former child actor, he later studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the Conservatoire de Paris, achieving the highest distinctions in several disciplines. With a doctorate in musicology, he teaches at ENS. His catalogue includes over 100 works – concert music, film scores, operas, ballets – performed by major orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France. His style alternates lyrical textures (“clouds”) and rhythmic energy (“clocks”), with frequent references to composers or works from the past. He also improvises in concert, accompanying silent films or based on themes suggested by the audience, and collaborates with actors, writers, and visual artists. He has received numerous awards, including two Victoires de la Musique Classique and the Grand Prix SACEM.
Karol Beffa is a Franco-Swiss composer, pianist, and musicologist. A former child actor, he later studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the Paris Conservatoire, earning top honours in multiple disciplines. He holds a PhD in musicology and teaches at ENS. His catalogue includes over 100 works—concert music, film scores, operas, ballets—and has been performed by leading orchestras like the London Symphony and Orchestre National de France. His style combines lyrical textures (‘clouds’) with rhythmic drive (‘clocks’) and often references past composers or literary and visual arts. Beffa also improvises live on piano, including for silent films and public themes, and collaborates with actors, authors, and visual artists. He has won multiple awards, including two Victoires de la Musique Classique and the SACEM Grand Prize.