Trio Philea

Created in 2019, the Trio Philea was born from the meeting of Sophia Tankosic (violin), Aline Masset
(cello) and Charlène Bertholet (piano) during their studies at the Institut supérieur de Musique et de
Pédagogie in Namur. Today they study respectively at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Anna
Gebert, at the Haute école de Musique de Lausanne in the class of François Salque, and at the
Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles with Benoît Mernier. During their training, they had the
opportunity to work on their repertoire with musicians such as Gilles Millet, Hanxiang Gong and
Sébastien Walnier. The trio has performed at the Centre culturel d'Aubange, the Festival de musique
de Houyet, the Cathédrale Saint-Paul de Liège, the Théâtre Antique d'Orange and the Festival
Musique dans la Rue d'Aix-en-Provence. More recently, the trio has had the opportunity to
participate in the Accademia Internazionale di Musica di Cagliari as well as in a ProQuartet training
with Gilles Millet.

Aline Masset

Born in Liège at the end of 1999, Aline turned to the cello at the age of six. A student of Marine
Horbaczewski, then of Laurent Chantraine at the Académie de Seraing, she joined the Jeune Talent
programme at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège in 2013, where she took courses in music theory,
chamber music and composition. She then continued her studies at the IMEP (Namur) where she
obtained a Bachelor's degree with the highest distinction with professors Eric Chardon and Han Bin
Yoon, and then at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in the classes of Marc Jaermann and
François Salque. She is currently studying for a Master's degree at the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Lyon, where she benefits from the guidance of Eric-Maria Couturier and Pascal Jemain.
She has participated in various projects with the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Royal Chamber
Orchestra of Wallonia, the Royal Opera of Wallonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège,
and has performed several times as a soloist with the University Orchestra of Liège (CIMI). She has
performed the Concerto in A minor by Carl Philip Emanuel Bach under the direction of Guy van
Waas.
She was a finalist in the Edmond Baert competition in 2016 and won second prize in 2018. She has
benefited from the advice of teachers such as Steven Isserlis, Jérôme Pernoo, François Salque, Niklas
Schmidt, Cyrill Lacrouts, Hervé Douchy, Jean-Pol Zanutel, Didier Poskin, and the Danel, Meta4, Artis
and Shangai Quartets during courses and master classes in Belgium, France and Switzerland. In
parallel, she has written articles for the music criticism magazine Crescendo for several years.

Sophia Tankosic

Born in 1999 in Aix en Provence, Sophia began learning the violin at the age of 5 with Cécile Gouiran.
She then continued in the class of Marie-Laurence Rocca at the Conservatoire à rayonnement
régional d'Aix en Provence where she obtained her diploma of musical studies in 2016 before
meeting Marc Danel and continuing her studies in his class in 2018. She then met Charlène and Aline
with whom she founded the Philea trio in 2019. They had the chance to perform in Belgium and
France and to work with musicians such as Gilles Millet, Hanxiang Gong and Sébastien Walnier. In
2020, she joins the class of Anna Gebert at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste where she continues
her studies.
In addition to her activities as a chamber musician, she is also involved in the orchestral field. She
participates in the projects of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, the Netherlands Youth Orchestra
as well as the Swiss Youth Orchestra, where she is second violin leader and then concert master. In
the summer of 2022, she has the opportunity to participate in the special project and summer tour
of the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester under the baton of Teodor Currentzis and Jukka-Pekka
Saraste.
Charlène Bertholet

Charlène Bertholet began playing the piano at the age of six with Bruno Crabbé. She was also
introduced to choral singing and was selected as a young chorister in the children's choir of La
Monnaie, which led her to participate in numerous concerts and operas (including Britten's A
Midsummer Night's Dream and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov) on the stage of the Théâtre de la
Monnaie in Brussels during her childhood.
At the age of sixteen she was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels as a young talent in the
piano class of Mikhail Faerman, and at the same time received advice from Johan Schmidt and Yuka
Izutsu. She then continued her piano studies with Roberto Giordano at the Institut Supérieur de
Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur and obtained her Master's degree in 2020.
She also started organ studies there in 2017 with Benoît Mernier and Cindy Castillo, and started her
Bachelor's degree the following year. She is currently studying for a Master's degree in organ at the
Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the class of Benoît Mernier and is doing an Erasmus at the
Universität der Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Pier Damiano Peretti.
She is a laureate of the EPTA and Steinway piano competitions as well as of the Belfius chamber
music competition, and regularly participates in master classes with Thomas Ospital, Gilles Millet,
Kornelia Ogorkowna, Boyan Vodenitcharov, Akiko Ebi, Jun Kanno, Alan Weiss and Diane Andersen.
She is organist in several Brussels churches and participated in the recording of Olivier Messiaen's
organ works at the Cathedral of Toul (F).