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Highly Strung string quartet String quartet for weddings, private parties and corporate entertainment  
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Elegant all female string quartet - ideal for wedding receptions and private parties performing from both a classical and an informal repertoire. Midlands based
 
Price Guide: £520 +  
 
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'Highly Strung' formed in Nottingham in 1996. All the musicians went on to study in London at the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Highly Strung have a huge profile in the Midlands and London and play an eclectic repertoire - from Beethoven to to the Beach Boys! The quartet regularly performs at a variety of functions and is extremely popular at wedding ceremonies and receptions, garden parties and corporate events.

Previous clients include:
Boots, Proctor & Gamble, RAF, Capital One, English Heritage, Mercedes-Benz, BBC and the British Business Awards.

Highly Strung have played at some of the country's finest venues including Blenheim Palace, Tower Bridge, Ham House, Belvoir Castle and Knebworth House.

A typical performance is for up to 2 hours of music within a 3 hour period.

Line up & Options:
2 x violins, viola, cello
 
     
Testimonials
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"Having played the violin for as long as I did, I feel qualified to say "you were brilliant!!" We couldn't thank you enough if we tried!"
Caroline and Matthew, Bride and Groom

"All the guests have been raving about you and how your music added to the atmosphere tremendously."
Jo & Steve, Bride & Groom

"Many thanks for a perfect performance. Superb! Splendid! Excellent music, thank you!"
The Stantons, Guests at an 80th Birthday Party

"We wanted to thank you for your sterling performance. The standing ovation from our guests was richly deserved. Your musical contribution made the day even more special."
Kathryn & Nick, Bride and Groom
 
 
Selected Repertoire  
A Foggy Day - Gershwin
A Hard Day's Night - Paul McCartney
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Manning Sherwin
Adagio from 'Spartacus' - Khachaturian
Adagio from 'Pathetique' Sonata - Beethoven
Air on a G string (Hamlet advert) - J. S. Bach
All you need is love - Beatles
Allegro from 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' - Mozart
Anything Goes - Cole Porter
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Autumn from the 'Four Seasons' Violin Concertos - Vivaldi
Ave Maria - Schubert
Ave Verum Corpus - Mozart
Begin the Beguine - Cole Porter
Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss
Bolero - Ravel
Bridal Chorus (aka.Here Comes the Bride) - Wagner
California Girls - Beach Boys
Can't buy me love - Lennon/McCartney
Canon - Pachelbel
Chaconne - Purcell
Chanson de Matin - Elgar
Chanson de Nuit - Elgar
Cock Linnet - Collins/Leigh
Consider Yourself - From 'Oliver'
Country Club - Scott Joplin
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky
Danse Espagnole - de Falla
Divertimento No. 1 - Mozart
Divertimento No. 3 - Mozart
Duet from the Pearl Fishers - Bizet
Embraceable You - Gershwin
English Country Garden - Trad.
ET (theme from the film) - John Williams
Every Time we say Goodbye - Cole Porter
Fascinatin' Rhythm - Gershwin
Flower Duet from 'Lakme' (BA advert) - Delibes
Force of the Destiny - Verdi
Forgotten Dreams - Leroy Anderson
Four Seasons Violin Concertos - Vivaldi
Funiculi Funicula - Denza
Golliwog's Cake Walk - Debussy
Guantanamera - Arr. Martelli
Happy Birthday - Trad
Happy Talk - Arr. Martelli
Hardy's Wessex (incl.Sailor's Hornpipe) - Traditional
Hey Jude - Paul McCartney
Hornpipe from Water Music - Handel
Humoresque - Dvorak
I get a kick out of you - Cole Porter
I got plenty of nothing - Gershwin
I Got Rhythm - Gershwin
Intermezzo - Masagni
Irish Sherry (incl. 'Danny Boy') - Trad/O'Carolan arr. Martelli
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
Just one of those things - Cole Porter
La Traviata (Drinking Song) - Verdi
Leaning on a Lampost - Noel Gay
Let's Do It - Cole Porter
Love is Here to Stay - Gershwin
Lullaby - Gershwin
Makin' Whoopee - Donaldson
Mamma Mia - Abba arr. Bozmik
Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin
Maria (from West Side Story) - Bernstein
Memory (from 'Cats') - Andrew Lloyd-Webber
Minuet in G Major - Beethoven
Minuetto - Boccherini
Moment Musicale - Schubert
Money, Money, Money - Abba
Moon River - Henry Mancini
Moonlight in Vermont - Suessdorf
Morning from 'Peer Gynt' Suite - Grieg
Mustang Sally - Arr.Bosmik
My Funny Valentine - Richard Rodgers
Night and Day - Cole Porter
Nimrod from Enigma Variations - Elgar
Non Piu Andrai (from the 'Marriage of Figaro') - Mozart
O Sole Mio - di Capua
Officer Krupke (from West Side Story) - Arr. Bosmik
Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin
Passacaglia - Handel
Pavane - Faure
Pennies from Heaven - Arthur Johnson
Penny Lane - Lennon-McCartney
Plink, Plank, Plunk - Leroy Anderson
Polovtsian Dances 'Prince Igor' - Borodin
Prelude to Carmen - Bizet
Presto from 'A Musical Joke' - Mozart
Ragtime, Serenade and Rumba - Anita Hewitt-Jones
Romance - Shostakovich
Rondo alla Turca - Mozart
Salut D'Amour - Elgar
Schindler's List (theme from the film) - John Williams
Serenade - Schubert
Sheep may safely graze - Bach
Slavonic dance No. VIII - Dvorak
Somebody loves me - Gershwin
Someone to Watch Over Me - Gershwin
Spring from the 'Four Seasons' Violin Concertos -
Vivaldi
Summer from the 'Four Seasons' Violin Concertos - Vivaldi
Summertime - Gershwin
Tango - Albeniz
The Man I Love - Gershwin
The Ship's Fiddler (incl. Sailor's Hornpipe) - Trad.
The Swan - Saint-Saens
The Teddy Bear's Picnic - J.W.Bratton
They can't take that away from me - Gershwin
To a Wild Rose - Macdowell
Traumerei - Schumann
Voi che Sapete from the 'Marriage of Figaro' - Mozart
Waltz - Grieg
Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky
Waterloo - Abba
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen - Grieg
Wedding March - Mendelssohn
What is this Thing called Love? - Cole Porter
When I'm 64 - McCartney
William Tell Overture - Rossini
Winter from the 'Four Seasons' Violin Concertos - Vivaldi
Yesterday - Lennon and McCartney
You're the top - Cole Porter

 
 
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Areas covered for this string quartet include: The Midlands, Birmingham, Coverntry, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Warwick, Stafford, Shire, Burton, UK




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