Violinist Athena Octavia Brilliant Classical and Electric Violinist - Perfect for any occasion

Based in United Kingdom

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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LOCATION
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

TRAVEL
up to 12500 miles

PRICE
from £200 (GBP)

RATED
10 / 10 from 5 reviews

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Description Price
Solo violin (with or without backing tracks) - Ceremony and Reception£350 (GBP)
Electric Violin Show - 1 Hour£300 (GBP)
Electric Violin DJ Live - Roaming Ibiza - Sets for up to 3 hours£400 (GBP)

About / Biography

Athena Octavia is a brilliant, internationally performing violinist and electric violinist, classically trained to the highest standard whilst also able to switch effortlessly between genres and styles. From performing with Ed Sheehan at the BRIT awards, to improvising electric violin with DJs at Beach Clubs in Tulum, to giving classical recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Athena will give a show-stopping performance for every occasion.

Athena studied at Oxford University and then the Royal Academy of Music, graduating from both with distinction and outstanding marks in her final recitals. She is a member of a 4-piece all-female country-pop band, Iris and Steel, in which she plays violin and sings backing vocals. They released their debut EP, ‘What People Do’, in November 2022 with a sold-out headline show at ‘The Camden Club’, and held a fortnightly residency at The Camden Assembly for most of 2022. They will be making their festival debut at the Alcove stage at Latitude festival this July as part of George Ezra’s selection of emerging artists.

Athena loves incorporating her passion for many different genres of music into her performances as well as using technology such as loop pedals, and with her highly trained ear is able to improvise in many styles from RnB, pop and jazz to EDM and even dubstep. She has perfect pitch, meaning she can improvise with a DJ off the bat and is able to take requests on the spot, creating an electric environment. In 2022 she and the fellow violinist Naomi Wilmshurst founded the electric violin duo, AZUL, which in 2023 they expanded alongside two others to create AZUL strings, a string collective who perform at luxury events and parties across the UK and internationally.

Athena is also a keen pianist, holding distinction in her dipABRSM diploma and regularly doing teaching and accompanying work.

She plays a Bridge Aquila Green and Black Electric Violin, an Aurora 5-string electric violin, and a John Wilkinson Acoustic Violin.

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There are currently 5 user ratings for Violinist Athena Octavia

AVERAGE RATING

10 / 101

Location

Based in United Kingdom

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Travels worldwide
pink circle = free travel (up to 10 miles)

Pop/Rock - Ballads, classic

Arethra Franklin - Say a little prayer

Ben E King - Stand by Me

Bill Withers - Ain’t no sunshine

Bryan Adams - Heaven

Commodores - Easy

Des’ree - I’m Kissing You

Elton John - Your Song

Elvis Presley - Can’t Help Falling in Love

Etta James - At Last

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

Norah Jones - Turn me on

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over trouble

Shania Twain - You’re Still The One

The Beatles - Yesterday

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

Pop/Rock- Uptempo, classic

ABBA - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme

ABBA - Mamma mia

ABBA - Dancing Queen

Amy Winehouse - Valerie

Earth Wind and Fire - September

CHIC - Everybody Dance

CHIC - I Want Your Love

Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child of Mine

James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

Marvin Gaye - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Natalie Cole - This Will Be

Nat King Cole - L-O-V-E

Oasis - Wonderwall

The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun

The Beatles - All You Need Is Love

The Ronettes - Be My Baby

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

Stevie Wonder - Superstition

Stevie Wonder - Isn’t She Lovely

Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Tina Turner - Proud Mary

UB40 - Red Red Wine

Whitney Houston - Your Love is My Love

Pop /RnB - Ballads, recent

Adele/Dylan - Make you feel my love

Adele - Rolling in the deep

Adele - Skyfall

Adele - Make you feel my love

Alicia Keys - If I ain’t got you

Beyonce - Halo

Billie Eilish - everything i wanted

Christina Perri - A Thousand Years

Coldplay - Fix You

Daniel Caesar ft. H.E.R - Best Part

Ed Sheeran - Thinking out loud

Ed Sheehan - Perfect

John Legend - All of Me

Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper - Shallow

Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

Snoh Aalegra/Pharrel Williams - Woah

Pop/RnB/Rock - Uptempo, recent

Ariana Grande - 34 + 35

Ariana Grande - Thank u next

Ariana Grande - Positions

Boney M/Majestic - Rasputin

Clean Bandit - Rather Be

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

Doja Cat - Say So

Drake - One Dance

Dua Lipa/Da baby - Levitating

Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now

Dua Lipa - New Rules

Ed Sheehan - Galway Girl

Elli Ingram - Bad Behaviour

Florence + The Machine - You’ve Got The Love

Jhene Aiko ft. H.E.R. - B.S

J Hus ft. Ella Mai - One and Only

Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call me by your name)

Masego - Tadow

Mabel - Boyfriend

Mahalia - Sober (Jarreau Vandal Remix)

Mahalia - Roadside

Miley Cyrus - Flowers

Sam Smith - Unholy

Selena Gomez - Calm Down

Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams

Tom Misch - South of the River

Tom Misch - It Runs Through Me

Tom Misch - Lost in Paris

Tom Misch - Disco Yes

Tom Misch - Beautiful Escape

Tom Misch - Everybody Get Down

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

The Weekend - I Feel It Coming

Dance/Electronic

Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga - Rain (Purple Disco Machine Remix)

Ava Max - My Head & My Heart

Avicii - Wake Me Up

Calvin Harris/Disciples - How deep is your love

Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman

Gala - Freed From Desire

Gorgon City - Burning

Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl

Joel Corry - Sorry

Le Flex - We Don’t Need a Spaceship

Mark Knight/Funkagenda - Man With the Red Face

Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk

Martin Garrix/Dua Lipa - Scared to Be Lonely

MEDUZA/Becky Hill/Goodboys - Lose Control

MJ Cole - Crazy Love

Moloko - Sing it Back

Midnight Pool Party - Waiting

Mr Probz - Waves (Robin Schulz Remix)

Nathan Evans/220 KID/Billen Ted - Wellerman Sea Shanty Dance Remix

Secondcity - I Wanna Feel

The Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme

The XX - Angels

Wankelmut/Emma Louise - My Head is a Jungle (MK Remix)

Drum and Bass/Dubstep

Camo & Krooked, Mefjus, Sophie Lindinger - No Tomorrow

DJ Fresh - Drive

Excision/Illenium/Shallows - Gold (Stupid Love)

Koven - All for Nothing

Afrobeats

Dave/Burna Boy - Location

Fireboy DML/Ed Sheeran - Peru

Headie One - Princess Cuts

NSG/Unknown T - Kate Winslet

WizKid/Tems - Essence

K-Pop

BLACKPINK - Shut Down

BLACKPINK - How You Like That

Jazz/Latin

Andrea Boccelli - Besame Mucho

Carlos Gardel - Por Una Cabeza

Errol Garner - Misty

Etta James - A Sunday Kind of Love

Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the moon

Gershwin - Summertime

Gershwin/Heifetz - It ain’t necessarily so

Joseph Kosma - Autumn Leaves

Jule Styne - I fall in Love Too Easily

Luiz Bonfa - Black Orpheus

Richard Rodgers - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Stephane Grappelli/Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing

Film/Crossover

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Memory (Cats)

Alan Menken - At Last I See the Light (Tangled)

Bernstein - Somewhere (West Side Story)

Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight (The Lion King)

Hands Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean

Karl Jenkins - Palladio

Loewe - On the Street Where You Live (My Fair Lady)

Robert Burns - My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose

Vanessa Mae - Storm

Bollywood

Humko Humise Chura Lo

Too Cheez Badi Hain

Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein

Tum Hi Ho

Kehna Hi Kiya

Tujhe Mein Rab Dikhta Hai

Athena is also able to take requests for specific songs.

Repertoire List - Classical

Bach/Gounod - Ave Maria

Bach - Air on the G string

Bach - Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring

Bach - Concerto in A minor, 1st movement

Bach - Partita in D minor

Borowski - Adoration

Beethoven - Allegro from Sonata No.5 (Spring) in F major

Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.5

De Falla/Kreisler - Dance Espagnole

Dvorak - Humoresque

Elgar - Chanson de Matin

Elgar - Chanson de Nuit

Elgar - Salut D’amour

Faure - Pavane

Faure - Après un rêve

Gershwin - It Ain’t Necessarily So (from Porgy & Bess)

Handel - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Handel - Water Music

Massenet - Meditation from Thais

Monti - Czardas

Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Mendelssohn - Wedding March

Pachelbel - Canon in D

Piazzolla - Libertango

Ponce/Heifetz - Estrellita (My Little Star)

Rachmaninoff - Vocalise

Rimsky Korsokov - Flight of the Bumblebee

Saint Saens - The Swan from Carnival of the Animals

Schubert - Ave Maria

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

I have my own PA system which is fully PAT tested and suitable for inside or outside, up to 100 people. For larger events I will require a PA system either to be provided or I can liaise with audio companies to provide one.

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

I usually aim to arrive around 45 minutes to an hour before the performance begins to set up.

Recent Clients

Violinist Athena Octavia has performed for these clients:

Ed Sheeran, The Last Skeptik, NAHLI, Jet Blue, Josette Dubai. Encore! Dubai, Vice Chancellor of Oxford,

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