Marta Gonçalves

Sara Deborah Struntz

Claire Bracher

Erik Dippenaar

Elektra Miliadou

After graduating in her hometown Thessaloniki, Greece, Elektra moved to London in 2003 to continue her cello studies. While in Royal College of Music she focused on historical performance and chamber music. She studied as a scholar the baroque cello, the viola da gamba and chamber music with Catherine Rimer, Richard Turnicliffe, Reiko Ichise and Ashley Solomon at the RCM and in July 2009 she was awarded a Master of Music in Advanced Performance and the McKenna Award for Baroque Music.

She has taken part in masterclasses given by Christophe Coin, Wieland Kuijken, David Watkin, Rachel Podger, Walter van Hauwe, Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Mackintosh and Jennifer Ward Clark among others.

As an active chamber musician Elektra has been a founding member of many ensembles. Her ensemble Amaranthos was a finalist in the York Early Music Competition 2007 and the Fenton House Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition 2008, and has performed at the Fraenkischer Sommerfest, Germany, London Handel Festival, Brighton Early Music Festival, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Early Music Festival and elsewhere. Along with the harpsichordist Erik Dippenaar, Elektra won the prize “Richard III” at the RCM Historical Performance Competition in July 2008. Her ensemble Suave was appointed Ensemble in Collaboration with the RCM Historical Performance Department for the academic year 2009-10.

As a continuo and chamber music cellist she regularly performs in such venues as the St John Smith Square, St George’s Hanover Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields and others. She has been a guest member of ensemble Melopoetica, with which she has appeared in Feldkirchen Festival in Austria, St Jame’s Piccadilly and the City Music Society. On the mediaeval field, she has recorded for Raumklang and regularly performes with the ensemble Ex Silentio.

Elektra’s recent orchestral experience includes playing with Florilegium (including live BBC3 broadcasting), Latinitas Nostra, Os Orphicum and the International Baroque Players among others. She has been the continuo cellist at the RCM Baroque Orchestra for the last six years, with which she has extensively performed and recorded Handel, Purcell, Rameau, Bach and Telemann in major London venues under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington, Ashley Solomon and Adrian Butterfield.