British violinist Louisa Staples was born in 2000 and is currently studying at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in the renowned class of Professor Antje Weithaas. She has performed as a soloist in major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall London.

Louisa Staples has won prizes at competitions such as the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Violin Competition, the Joseph Joachim Violin Competition, the Louis Spohr International Violin Competition and the Carl Flesch International Competition. In 2021 she was a finalist in the prestigious Premio Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa.

Recent concert highlights include invitations to festivals such as the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Numerous radio recordings document her concert activities.

She has been a member of Villa Musica Schloss Engers since 2019. She has participated in many Villa Musica projects, working with renowned violinists such as Christian Tetzlaff and Guy Braunstein. She has also been inspired by Zakhar Bron, Rainer Schmidt and Robert Levin.

Louisa Staples is the first violinist of the Viatores Quartet, a young string quartet based in Berlin, which recently won first prize at the 2024 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition. With her brother, Samuel Staples, she founded the Alderney Chamber Music Festival. The annual summer music festival brings together promising young musicians from around the world.

Louisa is a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and plays the »ex-Michel Schwalbé« Guadagnini, made in Piacenza in 1744 and generously provided by the German Musical Instrument Fund.