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