The Swiss soloist Rachel Kolly d'Alba, born 1981 in Lausanne (Switzerland), received her first violin and piano lesson at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatory in Lausanne where she received, with 15 years old, the diploma for teaching, for the violin and for the chamber music. She went on with her studies at the University for Music and Drama in Berne in the class of the renowned Slovenian violinist and teacher Igor Ozim. In addition to her violin studies, she studied orchestration with Jean Balissat, composition with Michael Jarrell in Geneva and contemporary chamber music with Bruno Canino. She took also master classes with Maestro Franco Gulli (Bloomington), with Thomas Kakuska (Alban Berg Quartet), with Thomas Brandis, Hansheinz Schneeberger and Ivry Gitlis.