We can provide beautiful live string quartet music for all types of event. For example, a christening, naming ceremony, birthday party, bar mitzvah, civil partnership, cocktail party, wedding anniversary, reception, retirement party, corporate function, awards ceremony, product launch, funeral or memorial service.
The Crystal Palace String Quartet are also available for hire for media events and recording sessions for radio, TV and film.
For wedding music please see the separate wedding music page.
A selection of works that might be appropriate for different types of function are given below. You can of course select any of the works from our extensive string quartet repertoire list or ask us to arrange your favourite song or work for string quartet. If you like you can leave the musical selection up to us: we have lots of experience creating just the right atmosphere for all sorts of events.
If you need help in organising an event, you may wish to use some of the suppliers listed on the links page.
Corporate function, product launch
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3
Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No.2 "Fifths"
Handel: Water Music
Purcell: Rondeau from Abdelazar
Christening or naming ceremony
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No.4 "Sunrise"
Dvorak: Humoreske
Debussy: Golliwog's Cakewalk
Birthday party
Happy Birthday (obviously!)
Mozart: String Quartet K.458 "Hunt"
Beatles: When I'm Sixty Four
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Bar/bat mitzvah
Traditional: Hava Nagila
Jerry Bock: If I Were a Rich Man
Traditional: Mazel Tov
Cocktail / Private party
Verdi: Brindisi (drinking song) from La Traviata
Offenbach: Can-Can
Gershwin: I Got Rhythm
Mozart: Divertimento in D
Wedding anniversary
Porter: I Get a Kick Out of You
Tango: La Cumparsita
Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Retirement party
Gershwin: Summertime
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No.5
Funeral, memorial service
Dvorak: Slow movement from String Quartet Op.96 "American"
Schubert: String Quartet in a "Rosamunde"
Purcell: Pavane
Massenet: "Meditation" from Thais