Faidon Miliadis
He has been a member of the Athens State Orchestra since 2017, where he served as concertmaster since 2021 and is now leading the second violin section (as of 2023). Faidon began his violin studies at the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki with professors Kostas Vozikis and Irina Dragneva. He then studied with Adrian Levine at the Royal College of Music in London and Kati Sebestyén at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, acquiring a Bachelor and a Master of Arts degree, supported by a full scholarship by the National Scholarship Foundation. He was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, with whom he repeatedly toured Europe and America, while at the same time he focused on chamber music, performing in venues and festivals across Europe. Since 2014, Faidon resides in Athens where he regularly collaborates with artists and ensembles in a wide range of projects, from early music concerts to avant-garde staged performances and was appointed a co-principal first violin at the National Opera of Greece. As a soloist, he has performed with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra and the Athens State Orchestra. He is a founding member of trio elGreco, one of Greece’s leading chamber music ensembles in recent years.
Enkela Kokolani
Enkela Kokolani started taking her first violin lessons at the age of six years in the Music School of Gjirokastra, to continue later with viola lessons. She graduated in the Academy of Arts in Tirana, in the class of professors Gjergj Pekmezi, Arben Llozi.
In 1995 and 1996, she was member of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, based in Aix-en Provence, France.
From September 1996 she was guest member as tutti musician of Athens State Orchestra and in 2001 she became its permanent member. She has also collaborated with other Orchestras in Greece, as the Greek National Opera Orchestra and the City of Athens Symphony Orchestra, where she has been a principal viola member for a period. She has followed various seminars in Greece and abroad, under the tutelage of Professors Bruno Pasquer, Rainer Moog and Grigori Zhislin.
She appeared as soloist with Athens State Orchestra, the Intrarti Orchestra, performing in compositions such as: Hoffmeister – Concert for Viola and Orchestra (first performance in Greece).
She participated in various groups of Chamber Music in Greece, Austria and Germany, as the Ensemble Modern, Kyklos Ensemble, Intermezzo String Quartet and others. She participated at Festivals of Music in Syros and Paxi, Greece and in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary.
From 2007 to 2010 she was teacher of violin and viola at the Municipal Conservatory of the city of Zografos and in Santorini, Greece.
During 2011-2013, she accomplished post-graduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, in the class of Professor Christian Euler, where she obtained the Acamedic degree of Master of Arts.
From 2016 she is second Principal viola at Athens State Orchestra.
Demetra Angelopoulos
Demetra Angelopoulos was born in Greece, and raised in Canada, studying both piano and violin. Awarded her Diplôme from the Athens Conservatory under I. Carter, she received her Master of Music Degree in 1988 from the University of Toronto, under the tutelage of Professor Lorand Fenyves. Having participated as member of many International Youth Orchestras, including the E.C.Y.O., she also taught at two Athens Conservatories for 20 years. She has been a member of the first violin section of the Athens State Orchestra since 1990.