Minerva String Quartet
The Minerva String Quartet has over ten year's experience in providing high quality live music for weddings and other special events. The group offers a professional yet friendly approach, and their repertoire covers a broad range of styles and genres.
Price from £597 + travel
Set List / Repertoire
BAROQUE
Bach - Suite in D (including ‘Air on a G string’); Concerto for two violins; Brandenburg Concertos 2 & 3; Badinerie; Arioso; Wachet Auf; Sheep May Safely Graze
Clarke - Prince of Denmark’s March
Corelli - Christmas Concerto; Menuetto; Corrente
Handel - Water Music Suite in F; Water Music Suite in D; Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; La Rejouissance; Passacaile; Largo
Pachelbel - Canon & Gigue
Purcell - Rondeaux ; Hornpipe & Air
Rameau - Gavotte
Telemann - Gigue
Vivaldi - Excerpts from the Four Seasons
CLASSICAL
Albeniz - Tango
Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Boccherini - Minuet
Borodin - Nocturne (String Quartet No.2); Polovtsian Dance
Brahms - Hungarian Dances
Chopin - Waltz in Db
Debussy - Golliwog’s Cakewalk
Dvorak - Humoresque; Lento (‘American’ Quartet)
Elgar - Salut d’Amour; Chanson de Matin; Chanson de Nuit; Idylle
Faure - Pavanne
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Granados - Andaluza
Grieg - Waltz Op.12; Norwegian Dances
Hasse - Canzona
Haydn - Movements from various string quartets; Serenade
Mozart - Divertimenti in D F & Bb; Movements from various string quartets; Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Ave Verum Corpus; Alleluja (Exultate Jubilate); Andante (Piano Concerto No.21)
Mendelssohn - Wedding March; Canzonetta
Offenbach - Barcarolle
Saint-Saens - The Swan
Schumann - Traumerei
Shostakovich - Romance
Sibelius - Andante Festivo
Strauss - Radetzky March; Blue Danube; Tales from Vienna Wood
Suk - Menuet
Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Waltz of the Flowers (Nutcracker); Waltz (Sleeping Beauty); Russian Dance; Andante Cantabile
Wagner - Wedding March
OPERA
Bizet - Selection from Carmen
Gershwin - Selection from Porgy & Bess including: Summertime; Bess you is my woman now; Oh, Lord, I’m on my way
Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakme
Massenet - Meditation from Thais
Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Mozart - De vieni non tardar from Marriage of Figaro
Puccini - Musetta’s Waltz from La Boheme
Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata
LIGHT
A nightingale sang in Berkely Square
Let’s do it
America
Love walked in
Anything goes
Makin’ whoopee
Around the world
Moonlight in Vermont
Blue Tango
My funny valentine
Calico skies
My love
Embraceable you
O sole mio
Every time we say goodbye
Pennies from heaven
Fawlty Towers
Scarborough fair
Fly me to the moon
She’s my baby
Funiculi, funicula
Slap that bass
Greensleeves
Someone to watch over me
Irish Sherry
Sunrise, sunset
I got rhythm
S’wonderful
Is you is or is you aint my baby
The folks who live on the hill
Jeeves & Wooster
The man I love
Joplin rags
There’s no business like showbusiness
Leaning on a lamppost
What kind of fool am I
Full Biography
The Minerva String Quartet is a small select pool of experienced professional musicians working as a string quartet. As much at home playing in a concert hall as at a wedding venue, the Quartet has given concerts for music societies and festivals across the South West and Wales, including the Three Choirs’ Festival in Hereford.
They have recorded for BBC Radio 4, providing incidental music for such plays as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Orchestra Paloma and have also recorded the music for Channel 4’s series Victoria and Albert. The quartet also features on the albums of the cult pop group Porcupine Tree and the Japanese vocalist Halo.
Members of the group also work as freelance orchestral musicians and have performed with a variety of ensembles and orchestras including BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, Joensuu City Orchestra (Finland), Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, London City Ballet, Bristol (Emerald) Ensemble, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company.
The Minerva String Quartet has an extensive and eclectic repertoire and can provide music suitable for all special occasions - weddings, receptions, dinners, corporate functions, birthday & Christmas parties, product launches, garden parties, art exhibitions and banquets.
The group's professionalism, reliability and quality of playing is recognised by many venues that are happy to recommend them to their clients. Amongst the venues we play at regularly are St. Audries Park,Goldney House,Clearwell Castle, Thornbury Castle, Kings Weston House and Llansantffraed Court.
The quartet is based in North Somerset and cover mainly the Midlands, South West and South Wales.
The Minerva String Quartet plays at the following venues:
Thornbury Castle, Kings Weston House, The Bishop’s Palace (Wells), Llantsantfraedd Court (Abergavenny), Peterstone Court (Brecon), Chepstow Racecourse, Caerlon University, Clearwell Castle, Cardiff Museum, Bristol Museum, Castle Hill (Devon) St. Audries Park (Somerset), Charlton House, The Rectory Hotel (Malmesbury), Manor by the Lake (Cheltenham), Combe Grove Manor(Monkton Combe),The Francis Hotel (Bath)
The quartet has also provided music for corporate events for the following companies:
Burges-Salmon, Coutts, Norgren Ltd., Vodaphone, De Loitte, Trigon Pensions, South West Regional Development Agency.
Lineup
Default lineup: 4 members
Quartet: violin x 2, viola, cello
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3 Customer Reviews
| Performance quality: | 5 stars |
| Sound quality: | 5 stars |
| Behaviour: | 5 stars |
| Communication: | 5 stars |
| Audience engagement: | 5 stars |
| Value for money: | 5 stars |
Thank you Katy and the rest of the team, for making our wedding day (21st July) ...
The client booked Minerva String Quartet for their event
“Thank you Katy and the rest of the team, for making our wedding day (21st July) so very special. You all played so beautifully and with the weather holding, the event was just perfect. All of our guests commented on how fantastic the music was - thanks again for everything.”
Dear Katy, Ian and I were absolutely thrilled with your music on Saturday. So...
The client booked Minerva String Quartet for their event
“Dear Katy, Ian and I were absolutely thrilled with your music on Saturday. So many people commented on your playing and how lovely it was that you came outside. We could have listened to you all day!! Please thank the rest of the quartet for us - you were all fabulous. ”
Once again heartfelt thanks and I hope we will have the opportunity to enjoy you...
Isabelle booked Minerva String Quartet for their event
“Once again heartfelt thanks and I hope we will have the opportunity to enjoy your music again in the future. Isabelle”
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