Mona is a musician who mainly devotes herself to improvisation. She uses the violin, viola, voice, electronics, live sampling, and she composes. She grew up in the Alps where she learned the violin and then discovered jazz at the age of 17. She was immediately attracted by the creative potential that this music offered her. She used this gateway to the world of improvisation.

After studying at the AMR in Geneva and then at the Conservatory of Amsterdam – where she was very inspired by the improvised scene – she returned to Switzerland to establish herself as a musician. She plays in many original music projects and develops an active reflection on the world of culture, the place of improvisation in society and the responsibility of artists. Her projects are often part of this thinking process and are close to the movements of European avant-garde free jazz but they might also get lost in retro-futuristic science fiction and travel interspatially in the individual and collective imagination of worlds to come.

Currently based in Geneva, she is doing a master's degree at the Basel Music Academy (electronic music and experimental improvisation), she teaches improvisation at AMR, and plays in several projects such as Solaris, Killer Whales Music Theory, Saloperie, MERCALM, Oloma, Tier des Jahres, Random Grooves, Improvising On Uranus, La Limule Orchestra, BMR (Badinerie pour la Musique Improvisée) and Tronco.

She is an active member of two associations that promote improvised and experimental music in Geneva: AMR and Arboretum.

Inspirations and influences: The Necks, Paul Motian, ADHD, Holger Czukay, Fluxus, Oskar Gudjonsson, Donna Harraway, Misha Mengelberg, Sun Ra, Henry Purcell, Jen Shyu, Jon and Alice Coltrane, Evan Parker, Dr N.Rajam, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Andrea Parkins (...)