Celebration String Quartet

Celebration String Quartet add elegance & style to any occasion. Performing Contemporary & Classical material, the quartet are happy to tailor what they do to suit your plans & are always there to offer advice from the time of booking to the day itself!

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QUARTET PLAYLIST - Films, Pop, Light Classics, etc CHRISTMAS MUSIC

Film Themes and Songs
La La Land - NEW
Game of Thrones
Glasgow Love Theme
Shrek
The Godfather
Harry Potter
Harry Lime
Jaws
Ladies in Lavender
Star Wars
Dancing with Wolves
Dirty Dancing
Match of the Day
Rocky
Deer Hunter
The Piano
Titanic
Hobbit
Up  
Tangled
Lion King
Cats
Fiddler on the Roof
King and I
Lion King
My Fair Lady
Phantom of the Opera
Romeo and Juliet Kissing You
Sound of Music
South Pacific
West Side Story
White Horse Inn
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Pop - most things can be arranged by request. 
Abba
Apocolyptica - Nothing Else Matters
Blur - The Universal
Buble - Everything
Bruno Mars - Marry You
Bryan Adams - Everything I do I do for You
Celine Dion Seduces Me
Christina Perri -A Thousand Years
Coldplay - Clocks; Viva La Vida, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall
Death Cab for Cuties - Transatlanticism
Elbow - One Day Like This
Elton John - Your Song
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Etta James- At Last
Fairy Tale of New York
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Madness - It Must Be Love
Mogwai - Auto Rock; Hunted by a Freak; Friend of the Night
Oasis - Whatever
Paul Weller - You do Something to Me
Pixies -Gigantic
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Robbie Williams She's the One, Angels, Eternity
Ronan Keating When you say Nothing at all
Smashing Pumpkins
Snow Patrol -Chasing Cars
Take That -Greatest Day
The Beach Boys- God Only Knows
The Verve -Bittersweet Symphony
Wham- Wake Me Up Before You Go Go

Light Classics
Pachelbel Canon
Traditional Wedding Marches
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Bach Air on a G String
Tango Albeniz
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Brandenburg 3 and 5
Bach Violin Concerto
Bach Arioso
Beethoven Minuet
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Polovtsian Dances Borodin
Hungarian Dances Brahms
Te Deum Charpentier
Trumpet Voluntaries
Well Known Songs
Clair de Lune Debussy
Feniculi Fenicula
Flower Duet
Humoresque - Dvorak
Slavonic Dances - Dvorak
Chanson de Matin - Elgar
Salut d’Amour - Elgar
Beau Brummel - Elgar
Pavane - Faure
Panis Angelicus - Franck
Morning from Peer Gynt Suite - Grieg
Student Serenade - Grieg
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks - Handel
Water Music Suite - Handel
Andante from Oboe Concerto - Haydn
Selected movements - Haydn Quartets
Serenade - Haydn
Liebestraum - Liszt
To A Wild Rose - MacDowell
If with all your Heart - Mendelssohn
Wedding March - Mendelssohn
Rondeau - Mouret
Rondo Alla Turca - Mozart
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik - Mozart
Alvira Madigan (Piano Concerto) - Mozart
Divertimenti - Mozart
Allelujah (Exultate Jubilate) - Mozart
Selected movements - Mozart Quartets
Canon - Pachelbel
Chaconny - Purcell
Two Rondeaux - Purcell
Vocalise - Rachmaninov
Bolero - Ravel
Ballet Music from William Tell - Rossini
Galop from William Tell Overture - Rossini
Melody in F - Rubenstein
Ave Maria - Schubert
Moment Musicale - Schubert
Standchen from Songcycle - Schubert
Scenes from Childhood - Schumann
Traumerei - Schumann
Romance from the Gadfly - Shostakovitch
Neapolitan Serenade - Toselli
Force of Destiny - Verdi
Quartet from Rigoletto - Verdi
Four Seasons (selected) - Vivaldi
Wedding March - Wagner

POPULAR Songs
A Thousand Years
A Fine Romance
All The Things You Are
Annie’s Song
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Anything Goes
A Trumpeter’s Lullaby
Autumn Leaves
Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night
All You Need is Love
From Me To You
Get Back
Hey Jude
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Lady Madonna
Michelle
When I'm 64
Yesterday
Beautiful Dreamer
Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home
Blower's Daughter
Blue Suede Shoes
Blue Tango
Butterfly Waltz
Cock Linnet
Dixie
Embraceable You
Eriskay Love Lilt
Fawlty Towers
Flower of Scotland
Fly Me To The Moon
Forgotten Dreams
Getting Sentimental Over You
Goldfinger
Happy Birthday to You
Harry Lime Theme
Horse and Buggy
I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside
I Can't Help Falling In Love
I Giorni
I Got Rhythm
It Had To Be You
It’s All Right With Me
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Jeeves and Wooster
Leaning On a Lamp-post
Let’s Do It
Let's Face The Music And Dance
Love and Marriage
You're the Best Thing
Makin’ Whoopee
Misty
Moonlight and Roses
Moon River
Pennies from Heaven
Sandpaper Ballet
So In Love
Someone To Watch Over Me
Song for Sienna
Swanee
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
The Man I Love
The Yellow Rose oof Texas
The Typewriter
The Man I Love
Unforgettable
When I Fall In Love
You’re Getting to be a Habit with me

Walzes and Dances
Polovtsian Dances - Borodin
Hungarian Dances - Brahms
Slavonic Dance No. 8 - Dvorak
Wedding Day At Troldhaugen - Grieg
Waltz - Grieg
Waves of the Danube - Ivanovici
Gold and Silver Waltz - Lehar
Merry Widow Waltz - Lehar
Dances of Pozsony - Miklos Kocsar
William Tell Gallop - Rossini
March Militaire - Schubert
Annen Polka - Strauss
Blue Danube - Strauss
Radetsky March - Strauss
Thunder and Lightening Polka - Strauss
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - Strauss
Sleeping Beauty Waltz - Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky
Drinking Song - Verdi
Skater’s Waltz - Waldteufel

Glen Miller Medley
In The Mood
American Patrol
A String of Pearls
Chatanooga Choo Choo

Rock’n Roll
Rock Around the Clock
That’ll be the Da y
Blueberry Hill
Runaway

Ragtime
Solace
Peacherine Rag
Entertainer
Paragon Rag
Maple Leaf
New Rag
Country Club
Pineapple Rag
Folk
Mexican Hat Dance
Scarboro Fair
An Eriscay Love Lilt
Londonderry Air
The De’il Amang the Tailors
Clean Pea Strae
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Irish Sherry Suite
The Soldier’s Joy
The Turkey in the Straw

Special Requests
The Acrobat arranged for quartet and trombone for the amateur trombone players amongst your guests!
Trumpet Voluntary arranged for trumpet and quartet
Flower Duet for 2 sopranos and string quartet

Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikovsky
Miniature Overture
Russian Dance
Dance of the Mirlitons
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Waltz of the Flowers
Chinese Dance

Opera Selection (also see waltz selection)
Carmen Prelude - Bizet
Flower Duet - Delibes
Intermezzo - Mascagni
Meditation from Thais - Massenet
Voi Che Sapete from Marriage of Figaro - Mozart
Non Piu Andrai from Marriage of Figaro - Mozart
Barcarolle - Offenbach
Musetta’s Waltz Song - Puccini
O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
Suite from the Fairy Queen - Purcell
Three Little Maids from School - Sullivan
Drinking Song - Verdi
Quartet from Rigoletto - Verdi
La Donna e Mobile - Verdi

Church Music
Any hymns any of your choice including:
Amazing Grace
Give me Joy in my Heart
Lord of the Dance
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Walzes and Dances
Gold and Silver Walz - Lehar
Waves of the Danube - Ivanovici
Skater’s Walz - Waldteufel
Sleeping Beauty Walz - Tchaikovsky
Walz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky
Danse des Mirlitons - Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky
Russian Dance - Tchaikovsky
Walz - Grieg
Pizzicato Polka - Strauss
Radetsky March - Strauss
Slavonic Dance No. 8 - Dvorak
Drinking Song - Verdi
William Tell Gallop - Rossini

The Best of George Gershwin
I Got Rhythm
Embraceable You
Swanee
The Man I Love
Someone to Watch Over Me

Rock’n Roll Medley
At the Hop
That’ll be the Day
Blueberry Hill
Runaway
Rock Around the Clock

Scott Joplin Rag-time
Entertainer
New Rag
Country Club
Maple Leaf
Paragon Rag
Pineapple Rag

CHRISTMAS REPERTOIRE
Angels from the Realms of Glory
As With Gladness Men of Old
Away in a Manger
Carol of the Drum
Coventry Carol
Czech Carol
Deck the Hall
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceleslas
Greensleeves
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas
In Dulci Jubilo
Infant Holy
In the Bleak Mid-Winter
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
I Wander as I Wander
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Jingle Bells
Mary Had a Baby
Mary’s Boy Child
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Du Frohliche
Once in Royal David’s City
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Sussex Carol
O Tannenbaum
Rocking Carol
Sleigh Ride
Silent Night Holy Night
The Holly and the Ivy
The 12 Days of Christmas
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
When a Child is Born

CELEBRATION DUO PLAYLIST Violin and Cello
Includes Pachelbel Canon......and A Thousand Years - both popular for walking down the aisle.

Pop and Popular
Ain't Misbehavin'
Albatross
All You Need is Love
Angels
A Thousand Years
At Last
Begin the Beguine
Beyond the Sea
Burning Love
Can You Feel The Love
Cavatina
Chasing Cars
Concerning Hobbits
Clocks
Come Fly With Me
Dream Dream Dream
El Choclo - Tango
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Every Teardrop is a Waterfall
Everywhere
Fields of Athenry
Fields of Gold
Game of Thrones with drum!
Fly Me To The Moon
God Only Knows
Greatest Day
Happy
Harry Potter
Heaven
Hey Jude
I Feel Pretty
Imagine Dragons - Demons
I'm Yours
I See the Light
It Must Be Love - Madness
I've Got You Under My Skin
I won't Last a Day Without You
Jalousie - Tango
La Cumparsita
Ladies in Lavender
La Paloma
Let's Face The Music and Dance
Louisiana 1927
Love Story
Lovers
Love's Sorrow
Ma Cherie Amour
Make You Feel My Love
Married Life
My Heart Will Go On
Night Amongsy the Elves
One Day Like This - Elbow
O Sole Mio
Part of Your World
Penny Lane - Beatles
Perfect
Photograph
Pink Panther Theme
Pretty Woman
River Flows in You
Sail Away
Someone to Watch Over Me
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Starwars
Tango - Albeniz
The Kiss - Last of the Mohicans
The Wind Beneath My Wings
Titanic
Unchained Melody
We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
When I'm 64
When You Say Nothing At All
With A Little Bit of Luck
Wouldn't It Be Luverly
You Do Something To Me

Classical Pieces
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Bach Air on a G String
Bach Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Boccherini Minuet
Bruch Violin Concerto excerpt
Charpentier Te Deum
Clair de Lune
Clarke Trumpet Tune
Corelli Violin Sonata
Czardas
Dancla Canzonetta
Elgar Chanson de Matin
Elgar Salut d’Amour
Flower Duet
Greensleeves
Handel Aria
Handel Largo
Handel Water Music Suite Air Bourree Hornpipe La Rejouissance Coro
Handel Violin Sonatas - Selected movements
Kreisler Rondino on a theme by Beethoven
La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin
Liebesfreud
Liebeslied
Liszt Liebestraum
Marais Sonata a la Maraisienne
Mendelssohn Wedding March
Morning from Peer Gynt
Mouret Rondeau
Mozart Divertimenti-Andante & Presto
Mozart Voi Che Sapete
O Mio Babino Caro
Pachelbel Canon
Pavane Faure
Purcell Trumpet Tune
Salut D'Amour
Schubert Ave Maria
Schubert Andante
Sleeping Beauty Waltz
Trumpet Voluntaries
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves
Vivaldi Four Seasons- Spring - 1st and 3rd movements Winter -Largo
Wagner Wedding March
Weber Waltz



Full Biography

The Celebration String Quartet
A mature and very experienced  and accommodating quartet, also trio and duo,  offering great vesatility and sensitivity. They have been playing as a group since 1994 and also work as freelance players with professional midland orchestras.

Available for Church & civil weddings, Black Tie Events, After dinner entertainment, Corporate functions, Prize-givings, Anniversaries/Birthdays , Building openings, Product launches and more. 

Celebration String Quartet pride themselves on the quality of their playing and the vastness of their repertoire. Their arrangements are as near to the originals as possible and include popular classics such as Bohemian Rhapsody,  One Day Like This, A Thousand Years, Perfect - Ed Sheeran. Some very popular songs have been arranged for quartet, trio and duo so you can choose which you prefer depending on circumstances.

Quartet leader Suzie has built up a library of film, pop and show music which the group love to play. They are always on the look out for  'Feel Good' music as well as the romantic songs.

Previous Venues Include:
Dumbleton Hall Evesham
Dormy House Hotel Broadway
Ragley Hall Alcester
Woburn Abbey Sculpure Gallery
Rockingham Castle Leicestershire
Ettington Park Hotel Stratford on Avon
Cheltenham Pump Room
Kingscote Barn Gloucestershire
The Abbey Hotel Malvern
Cowley Manor Cheltenham
Grafton Manor Bromsgrove
Sudeley Castle Winchcombe
Billesley Manor Hotel Stratford on Avon
Tortworth Court Wotton under Edge Gloucestershire
Rushton Hall Northamptonshire
Exton Park, Rutland
Bovey Castle, Dartmoor
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Eastwood Hall, Nottingham
Haughton Hall, Shifnal, Shropshire 

Regular Players
George  (violin)
George plays frequently with Celebration String Quartet, String Trio, Flute Trio and Duo. He started his career with the Covent Garden Opera orchestra and now plays regularly with the English String Orchestra and as soloist with local orchestras. He loves playing flashy violin solos and can be heard warming up with Paganini Caprices!
Diane (Flute)
Aswell as being principal flute of Orchestra of the Swan, Birmingham Opera Company and Mid Wales Opera, she has also performed with other leading orchestras and ensembles including City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
She is involved in many education and outreach projects and loves playing for weddings and functions.
Suzie (Cello)
Formerly a full-time cellist in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the orchestra of Opera North in Leeds, she has played for BBC radio and television, CBSO and BSO. Suzie really enjoys the contact with the brides or event managers and loves to really make the day very personal and special in a unique way for each individual.
Suzie teaches in the Malvern area. 
Other players include very reliable and lovely musicians who Suzie plays with regularly.
The quartet is run from a collective of musicians, due to the popularity of it's performers so, occasionally members may change without notice.

Lineup

Default lineup: 4 members

Standard Quartet: Violin x 2, Viola and Cello.

Suzie Walden is the cellist and manages every aspect of the quartet. She will help the client from the first point of contact and be there on the day to play and make sure everything runs smoothly.

*A range of trio and duo's also available (please see booking options).

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You all played beautifully.

5 stars - Celebration String Quartet are Highly Recommended
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“Just a quick email to thank you for last night, Your quartet added to the ambiance of the evening, which is exactly what I was looking for, you all played beautifully, and thank you for playing some of the music that I had specifically asked for. I wouldn’t hesitate to hire you again, and would be happy to recommend you to anyone planning an event.”


Thank you for helping to make my sisters wedding such a memorable occasion. Your...

5 stars - Celebration String Quartet are Highly Recommended
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“Thank you for helping to make my sisters wedding such a memorable occasion. Your choice of music for both the church and the reception were ideal and enjoyed by all. I thank you for your communication and correspondence throughout and in the run up to my surprise gift. I would, without hesitation, recommend you to family, friends and others.”


I would not hesitate to recommend Celebration String Quartet.

5 stars - Celebration String Quartet are Highly Recommended
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“I just wanted to pass on our thanks to you following our daughters wedding on Friday 26th July at Moxhull Hall. We were so thrilled with the trio both in the church and later at the drinks reception. Every comment we received was very positive and very fitting for the day, I only wish I had booked you a little longer! I would not hesitate to recommend you for any event.”


Your choice of music was perfect and enjoyed by everybody.

5 stars - Celebration String Quartet are Highly Recommended
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“I would like to thank you for a delightful afternoon. Your choice of music was perfect and enjoyed by everybody. I heard praises from so many and I would be grateful if you would thank enormously the other members of your group and tell them they really gave us a lovely, peaceful musical afternoon.”


Just to say thanks again as the music was superb and sorry that we cut you short...

5 stars - Celebration String Quartet are Highly Recommended
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“Just to say thanks again as the music was superb and sorry that we cut you short but the dinner just seemed to go so fast. Afterwards in the bar many of the guests mentioned how much they enjoyed listening to you all. I will be passing your details on to others and would highly recommend you.”

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