Styles String Quartets
Counties Cheshire • Cumbria • Derbyshire • Greater Manchester • Lancashire • Merseyside • Nottinghamshire • South Yorkshire • Staffordshire • West Yorkshire
Biography
This String Quartet are an experienced quartet of classically trained professional musicians and have played together for the last 15 years.
Throughout this time they have built up an extensive and eclectic repertoire, which is evolving all the time not only due to public demand but also to our own personal taste. Therefore we are certain that we will have plenty of choices to suit everyone. However if you wish a special piece that is not mentioned in our repertoire we will endeavour to get hold of it and ultimately perform it at your event.
As a quartet their main activity involves playing for weddings, corporate events such as product launches, party conferences and company meals as well as recitals.
They have worked with artists as diverse as Pavarotti, Bjork, Lisa Stansfield, Bryn Terfyl, Elaine Page, The Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Dave Willetts, Aled Jones, Philip Schofield, Cerys Matthews, Terry Wogan, Bonny Langford, Julia McKenzie, Dennis Quilley, Susan Hampshire, Alvin Stardust, Paul Nicholas, Clive James etc.
When not playing as the String Quartet, the musicians perform independently as freelance players for orchestras like The Hallé Orchestra, The Liverpool Philharmonic, The Academy of St Martins-in-the fields, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Manchester Concert Orchestra, Welsh Chamber Orchestra, Northern Ballet amongst others. They also perform for large scale touring productions of musicals such as "Phantom of the Opera", "Les Miserables", "Miss Saigon", "Joseph", "Singin' in the Rain" and many more!
SAMPLE REPERTOIRE
Air (from suite No. 3 in D) - Bach
Brandenberg Concerto No. 3 - Bach
Jesu Joy of Man's desiring - Bach
Prelude to Carmen - Bizet
Flower song (Carmen) - Bizet
Minuet - Boccherini
Nocturn - Borodin
First Polovtsian Dance - Borodin
Hungarian Dance No. 5 - Brahms
O Sole Mio - Capua
Prince of Denmark's March - Clarke
Flower Duet (Lakme) - Delibes
Slavonic Dance No. 8 - Dvorak
Chanson de Matin - Elgar
Salut d'Amour - Elgar
Berceuse (Dolly Suite) - Faure
Waltz Op. 12 - Grieg
Norwegian Dance No. 2 - Grieg
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen - Grieg
Water Music - Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Pastoral Symphony (Messiah) - Handel
Cavalleria Rusticana - Intermezzo - Mascagni
Liverpool Suite - McCartney
Wedding March - Mendelssohn
Rondo alla Turca - Mozart
Divertimento in D - Mozart
Divertimento in F - Mozart
Divertimento in B flat - Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart
Ave Verum Corpus - Mozart
Barcarolle - Offenbach
Canon - Pachelbel
Nessun Dorma - Puccini
Vocalise - Rachmaninoff
Melody in F - Rubinstein
Traumerei - Schumann
Romance (The Gadfly) - Shostakovitch
Wiener Blut Waltz - Strauss
Radetzky March - Strauss
Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss
Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikovsky
Polka (Schwanda the bagpiper) - Weinberger
POPULAR
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Michelle
All Creatures Great and Small
Misty
Anything Goes
Molly on the Shore
As Time Goes By
Money, Money, Money
Beer Barrel Polka
Pennies from Heaven
Belle of the Ball
Pink Panther
Blue Tango
Plink, Plank, Plunk
Cavatina
Sandpaper Ballet
Chimes Blues
Scarborough Fair
Eleanor Rigby
Scott Joplin Rags (Various)
Every Time We Say Goodbye
Serenata
Fiddle-Faddle
Singing in the Rain
Floral Dance
Sleigh Ride
Forgotten Dreams
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Funny Va
