Evi Filippou was born in 1993. She started taking percussion lessons at the age of 7. With a scholarship from the Athens Concert Hall, she graduated the Conservatory of Volos and relocated to Berlin to study at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Bachelors and Masters graduation with honors).

In addition to performing with various orchestras and contemporary music ensembles all around Europe, she performs solo classical and improvised music, duo with Katerina Fotinaki (ff duet), Lara Alarcón, Rober Lucaciu (Filippou & Lucaciu) and has collaborated with various prestigious artists of the European jazz scene like Chris Dahlgren, Arne Braun, Elias Stemeseder, Uli Kempendorff, Angelika Niescier.

With her project inEvitable she explores her own compositions and arrangements and with Cabaret Catatonique her interdisciplinary curiosity.

She holds a strong presence in the music-theatre scene  regularly performing with various groups and theatre venues (a.o. Neue Werkstatt der Staatsoper Berlin, Rimini Protokoll, Hauen and Stechen Musiktheater Kollektiv).

She also teaches percussion group lessons as an instructor of “Vincentino e.V. – culture strengthens children in Berlin”.