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Orpheus Papafilippou  Violinist
        Soloist   Chamber Musician   Orchestral Leader

Violin and Piano Duo

Orpheus and Lada have been collaborating together for several years.  They have performed together in London and throughout England.  Their performances have been enthusiastically received as has their interesting choice of repertoire and programme design which explores a variety of tone colours, timbres and musical styles creating a musical synergy, poetry and fantasy in design and execution.  Appearances include St John’s Smith Square, Anglo Czechoslovak Trust and Trinity Arts Centre Gainsborough.

Lada Valesova is a graduate of the Prague Conservatoire, Prague Music Academy and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  She is a concert artist and chamber musician having recently given concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Czech Republic and Great Britain including most recently solo recitals at Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival and the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford.  Her prizes include winner of the Alexander Wise Memorial Prize, for Romantic music.

She has performed in St. John’s Smith Square and the Lindbury Studio, ROH. She was a recitalist in a chamber music cycle under the patronage of the Czech Philharmonics in Prague. Her performance with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Germany led to a CD recording with the orchestra.
She is in demand not only as a soloist but also as a highly sensitive experienced and supportive accompanist and chamber music player.