The Scottish String Quartet
String Quartet

Line up: Quartet 2: Violins, Viola, Cello.

Highlights
* String Quartet based in Edinburgh
* A perfect backdrop to your reception or graceful accompaniment to your wedding ceremony
* Versatile; also available as flute quartet - please enquire
* From folk and classical to pop and film themes as well as bespoke arrangements for a small fee: you will find a prefect repertoire with The Scottish String Quartet
* Quartet have played music festivales and some of Scotland's top venues
* Available throughout most of Scotland
* Additional Harpist available for your event at no extra cost when Quartet is booked (see booking options)

The Scottish String Quartet are a versatile and stylish string quartet available to play for all kinds of occasion but specialising in providing music for wedding ceremonies and receptions. Alternatively they are able to provide a Flute Quartet (ie Flute Violin Viola and Cello).

About the Quartet
At the core of the ensemble is Edinburgh based husband and wife team Caroline and Julian Marshall playing violin and viola and augmented from a small pool of other professional violinists / cellists, including daughter Zoe when not studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
 
The Scottish String Quartet's repertoire is both extensive and varied, encompassing Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Ragtime, American Songbook, Film & Musical, Folksongs, Pop and about twenty Bollywood songs.

The Scottish String Quartet began in 2006, and while most of their engagements since then have been for weddings, they have also provided music for:

• Open Days at Duart Castle, Isle of Mull (2006 and 2007)
• Gold Class Audi Owners dinner at Glasgow Audi (2007)
• Calmac / Jolomo event - cruise from Oban to Colonsay with exhibition of paintings by John Lowrie Morrison (2006, 2007 and also booked for May 2009)
• Valentine’s Day Dinner, Gleneagles Hotel (2007)
• “Mostly Mozart” concert for Perth Decorative and Fine Arts Society (2006)
• Outdoor 60th Birthday celebration, Livingston
• Bar Mitzvah (Glasgow 2008 – including provision of Klezmer music for dancing)

Meet the Musicians
Caroline Marshall (violin) graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and has played with Scottish Ballet for more than 25 years. She has also played for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Esterhazy Chamber Orchestra, and was a member of the Esterhazy Quartet in London for 6 years. Highlights with the Esterhazy Quartet included playing aboard the QE2, at the Cannes Film Festival and at the Chelsea Arts Ball. Caroline was also principal 2nd Violin with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company where she played all of Gilbert & Sullivan’s operettas, and she also played regularly in many West End shows including Sweeney Todd, Phantom of the Opera, Annie, Oklahoma and Carousel.

Julian Marshall (viola and arranger) read music at Cambridge University and then studied viola at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies in London. He held full-time positions with the Opera and Symphony Orchestras in Palermo, Sicily and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has written a number of original compositions for The Scottish String Quartet and many commissioned arrangements ranging from Iron Maiden (!?) and Bollywood to string quartet accompaniments for Mozart and Puccini arias.

Zoe Marshall (cello) was a pupil at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh is currently studying cello at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She played with both the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

All other players are drawn from the Scottish professional free-lance scene and play regularly for many of the Scottish orchestras, including Scottish Ballet, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Venues
The Scottish String Quartet have played at many of the top hotels and venues in Scotland including:

• Gleneagles Hotel
• Mar Hall, Bishopton
• Raddison Hotel, Glasgow
• Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow
• Abode Hotel, Glasgow
• Glasgow Fruit Market
• Greywalls Hotel, Gullane
• Roxburghe Hotel, Edinburgh
• Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh
• Balbirnie House Hotel, Glenrothes
• Wedderburn Castle, Duns
• New Lanark Mill Hotel
• Stirling Castle
• Roman Camp Country House, Callander
• Brig O’Doon Country House Hotel, Ayr
• The Cruin, Loch Lomond
• The Lodge on Loch Lomond, Luss
• Garvock House Hotel, Dunfermline
• Glenskirlie Castle, Falkirk