OUR STORY
Virginie Bove
Born in 1977 in France, Virginie Bove graduated from the Conservatory of Saint-Maur and the National Conservatory of Paris with distinctions and diplomas in flute, piccolo and chamber music. She has also taken masterclasses with reknown soloists such as Mathieu Dufour, Michel Debost and Philippe Bernold.
Between 1995-2000 she was the principal flutist of the Sοrbonne Orchestra in Paris with which she recorded various works and toured in France, Italy and the United States. She then worked as a freelancer in professional orchestras in France until her admission to the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra.
Chamber music has always had a prominent place in her musical activities. She collaborated with various musicians as well as being a member of the musical ensembles Evohe Wind Quintet and Chronos Ensemble. Cypriot composers, such as Savvas Savvas, Evis Sammoutis, Maria Andreou and Constantinos Papageorgiou have written works dedicated to her.
Since 2005 she teaches the flute at various academies in Nicosia, such as the Ethniko Odio, the Arte Music Academy and the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra Academy.
Cypriot flutist Eleni Kappa began her musical studies at a young age at the Hellenic College of Music in Nicosia. At the age of 15 she received a scholarship from the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra to study flute with Virginie Bove.
She went on to study with internationally renowned soloists in France such as Michel Moraguès, Céline Nessi, Chrystel Delaval, Magali Mosnier, Vicens Prats, Philippe Pierlot, Claude Lefebvre and others.
Her various artistic activities led her to collaborate with orchestras in Cyprus and abroad, such as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra where she currently works as an extra musician, Orchestre Ostinato, Listen Ensemble, Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Paris, Orchestre Paris Sciences et Lettres, the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles.
Holder of master's degrees in music performance and pedagogy from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, she teaches flute at Conservatoire Charles Munch in Paris.
