Thursday, 23rd February 2012
The Abbey String Quartet has extensive experience in providing high-quality music for wedding ceremonies and celebrations at venues across Wales and England. Dedicated to making your day more special, we will cater for your individual requirements and add a sparkling touch to the occasion!
Please see below for the variety of ways in which our music can complement your wedding, whether you would like the quartet to play for the ceremony and/or drinks reception only, or to be available during the course of the whole day.
Please see our repertoire page for suggestions of music for your ceremony.
Ceremony
The Abbey String Quartet provides the ideal musical backdrop to a variety of parties and receptions, be it for champagne and canapés following a wedding ceremony, a birthday party, a formal dinner or banquet, and any other special occasion or celebration! With our repertoire spanning from soothing classics to jazz, ragtime, popular themes from television and more, we will tailor the range of pieces according to your preferences, or play a standard selection of music appropriate to the occasion. We also offer our Human Jukebox who can circulate amongst the guests and take musical requests there and then!
The Abbey String Quartet will help create an elegant and sophisticated ambience for your corporate event, be it for a product launch, promotional event, a dinner or ball, a charity event or any other kind of function. As for receptions and parties, our repertoire includes a wide range of music which can be adapted to suit a range of events to entertain your clients, employees and guests.
The Abbey String Quartet has a history of successful concerts under its belt and a substantial concert programme to offer. Our first ever concert was a programme of early English music performed at the famous 11th century Cistercian Abbey in Abbeydore near Hereford, and it is from this event that the group takes its name. From renowned works by Bach and Mozart to popular light pieces and jazz, our programme will be tailored to suit the occasion. We are also available to perform concerts in schools in South Wales and provide educational workshops pertaining to the National Curriculum. Please see our education section for more information.
The Abbey String Quartet and its individual members are available for recording sessions. We have experience playing for numerous recordings both as a quartet and as separate performers, including works by local composers and radio shows. Please visit our listen page to hear samples of our recordings and contact us to discuss your requirements.
New Music – we also welcome enquiries from composers who are looking to have their music performed or recorded.
As well as our work as performers, all members of the Abbey String Quartet are teachers of music and their instruments. We are passionate about encouraging young people to learn music and about passing on our skills to the next generation. To this end, we have developed our own unique education programme to be presented at schools in a fun and engaging way; this can be adapted for all school ages at any level.
Our current ‘Bach to the Blues’ project is manifest as a complete single performance lasting approximately 50 minutes. The programme consists of a series of short, well-known pieces presented in a polished and entertaining manner.
For an audience of junior children this will form an informative and enjoyable part of their music education; for older children, the concert is tailored to complement the outline and principle criteria of the National Curriculum for music. The pieces are staged chronologically, moving through the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and Post-modern periods. We will therefore begin the programme with Bach and finish with the blues, followed by a relaxed question and answer session.
We also offer a series of subsequent workshops appropriate to GCSE and A-level where we explore the different periods of music in more detail. In addition, we are available to provide workshops in composition and performance, as well as ensemble coaching.
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The Abbey String Quartet is available to provide professional live music for weddings, civil ceremonies, blessings, receptions, banquets, social functions, charity events, balls, parties, corporate functions, business events, and all kinds of celebrations across Wales and England: South Wales –Swansea – Bridgend – Cardiff – Newport – Caerphilly – Abergavenny – Monmouth – Chepstow – Mid Wales – Brecon – Merthyr Tydfil – West-Wales – Pembrokeshire – South West – Bristol – Bath – Gloucester – Cheltenham – Hereford – Worcester – Birmingham – The Midlands and Somerset.