Professors 2025

Rainer Schmidt studied under Atila Aydintan, Hanover Music College. Before he became the second violinist of the Hagen Quartett in 1987, he studied at Delay / K. Sassmannshaus and string quartett with W. Levin. He is a teacher at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, at the “Escuela Superior Reina Sofia Madrid” and at the City of Basel Music Academy.

Italian-born violist  Ettore Causa is a former student of the International Menuhin Music Academy and of Yehudi Menuhin and is considered one of the most brilliant violists performers and pedagogues of our time.

Ivan Monighetti, one of Rostropovich’s last students and an eminent champion of the Russian cello school, is in great demand around the world as a teacher. He has taught at the Basel Music Academy for nearly 20 years.