Photo: Ueli Steingruber

Modulor Quartet

Gregor Hänssler, violin
Beatrice Harmon, violin
Lucía Mullor, viola
Nigel Thean, cello 

Founded in 2019, the Modulor Quartet has performed at the Davos Festival, the St. Galler Festspiele, the Swiss Chamber Music Festival, the quatres saisons festival Lausanne, the Rottweil Sommersprossen Musik-Festival, Kammermusik Luzern and the Braunwald Chamber Music Week. Alongside their studies with Rainer Schmidt and Anna Gebert at the Basel Academy of Music, the young musicians have been coached by Eberhard Feltz, Robert Levin and Florian Donderer. In addition to classical repertoire, the Modulor Quartet is dedicated to contemporary music and interdisciplinary projects with dance and architecture. The quartet’s name pays respect to Swiss architect Le Corbusier’s theory of architectural proportions – the golden ratio. In 2021 the string quartet won 2nd prize at the Orpheus Chamber Music Competition in Fribourg, in 2022 1st prize at the Kiwanis Competition in Zurich and in 2023 was awarded the main prize of the Lucerne-based Marianne and Curt Dienemann Foundation. The Modulor Quartet was nominated for the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes 2023 and qualified for the 2021 International Bartók Competition in Budapest, the 2023 Carl Nielsen Chamber Music Competition as well as the 77th Concours de Genève 2023. The Modulor Quartet is a member of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) and the international chamber music platform MERITA and will compete in the 2025 Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition.