Music for events

"We were delighted with your performance and you helped make the evening very special for us"Gary Morris, Silver anniversary party, July 2006

Crystal Palace String Quartet

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