Musicians

Mona Creisson, viola/efx/voice

Mona (FR/CH) is a Geneva-based musician and improviser. She plays violin, viola, voice, electronics, and live sampling, and also composes. After studying at AMR Jazz Club in Geneva and the Conservatory of Amsterdam, her music became strongly shaped by the Dutch improvised music scene. Her work spans original ensembles, multimedia projects, and theater, reflecting on culture, the role of improvisation in society, and the artist’s responsibility.

She holds a Master’s degree in Open Creation, Improvisation, and Electronic Music from the Basel Music Academy, teaches improvisation at AMR, and performs with numerous projects including Children of Webern, Killer Whales Music Theory, Solaris and MERCALM.. She is also active as a curator, organizer or member within Geneva’s improvised and experimental art scene through AMR and Arboretum.

Benoit Gautier, doublebasse/efx

Benoît Gautier was born on October 9, 1993, in Geneva. He was quickly encouraged to pursue music by his parents, who were amateur musicians. At the age of six, he began learning the cello at the Espace Musical. He continued studying music throughout his childhood in various forms (cello, electric bass, and singing in rock, ska, and reggae bands).

At the age of 17, he discovered jazz through elective jazz classes at Collège Claparède and workshops at the AMR. A year later, he began playing the double bass at the CPMDT, and at 20, he joined the professional program at the AMR while also beginning studies in musicology and history at the University of Geneva. In 2017, he completed the AMR professional school, where he studied under bassist Ninn Langel, and began his first professional engagements, notably with the Big’up Band and Full House Quartet.

Since then, he has remained active in many Geneva-based groups. He plays and composes for The Ferries alongside drummer Sylvain Fournier and clarinetist Philippe Ehinger, and for Killer Whales Music Theory, which he co-leads with Mona Creisson. He also performs as a sideman in other projects such as Ravi Ramsahye Prototype, a modern jazz quartet, Cédric Schaerer’s trio, and Giallo Oscuro, a project centered on the music of maestro Ennio Morricone.

In parallel, he began teaching workshops at the AMR in 2022, where he was appointed as a professor in 2025. He launched the project Limule, which has been organizing music sailing tours in Brittany since 2022.

Now 31 years old, Benoît GAUTIER continues his musical journey with the same passion for discovery, firmly convinced of music’s social importance and its positive impact on today’s society.

Stefano Grasso, drums

Stefano Grasso (IT/CH) is a drummer and contemporary trained percussionist devoted to improvised and creative music.

He is engaged in several projects, from solo to big ensembles, released for European, American, and Argentine labels, encompassing improvised music, post-rock, jazz, and contemporary music. He took part in Art Omi: Music (2023, 2025) and was artist-in-residence for the Italian Cultural Institute in Córdoba, Argentina (2024).

Grasso is co-founder of Conserere (2016, Milan) and KreativKlang (2024, Basel), collectives dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of improvised music. He is a lecturer at Conservatorio Verdi in Milan (a.y. 2022–24) and at FHNW Musik-Akademie in Basel (a.y. 2025–26).

Chloé Marsigny, Basse Clarinet

Chloé Marsigny is a composer and clarinetist born in 1994 at the foot of the mountains in Haute-Savoie.
She has been playing the clarinet since the age of 7 and spent her teenage years discovering early 20th-century jazz, listening to Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong…

After gaining experience in a preparatory mathematics class and then at a University Institute of Technology, she chose to dedicate herself entirely to music. From 2012 to 2016, she trained at the Annecy Conservatory in the jazz department, under the guidance of saxophonist Richard Foy. It was there that she played in her first bands.
In 2016, she was admitted to the Haute École de Musique of Lausanne after earning her Jazz DEM (Diploma of Musical Studies), and went on to complete a master’s degree in Jazz Performance and Composition in 2021, followed by a master’s in Instrumental Pedagogy in 2023.

Today, she performs and composes for her own sextet and is a member of several projects, including Knobil, Killer Whales Music Theory, Fabien Ghirotto Quartet, and Merlin et les Maîtres de l’Air. She also collaborates with various musicians from the Swiss gypsy jazz scene.

Chloé teaches jazz clarinet at the Lausanne School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, where she is also the director of the Big Band.