Erskine String Quartet
Overview
- String Trio or String Quartet
- Wide repertoire - Classical to Jazz, Folk to Pop
- DJ and ceilidh option also available
Price Range
Prices range from £250 to £700
About
The Erskine String Quartet is comprised of four Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduates and is one of Scotland's most popular and versatile groups.
The players are professional freelance performers, all based in Glasgow with a wealth of experience of playing with various orchestras and ensembles including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Viridian Quartet and the Scottish Chamber Music Players.
Comfortable with all genres of music from Classical to Jazz, Folk to Pop, the group have experience in playing at all types of events from background to centre-stage and acoustic to amplified settings. They have several years of event work under their belt including hundreds of weddings and other events across Scotland.
Where are they based?
The Erskine String Quartet/Trio are based in Glasgow, Scotland are are willing to travel anywhere in Scotland including Highlands & Islands and also to North England/London depending on the work details.
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Sample Set List
Popular
All of You - Cole Porter
All You Need is Love - Beatles
Anything Goes
Begin the Beguine - Porter
Blue Tango - Leroy Anderson
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Lion King
Country Club - Scott Joplin
Don’t Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Embraceable You - Gershwin
Every Time We Say Goodbye - Porter
The Entertainer - Scott Joplin
Fly Me to The Moon
For the Love of a Princess - Braveheart
Get Back - Beatles
Glenn Miller medley
Hello Dolly
Hey Jude - Beatles
Honeysuckle Rose
Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
I Concentrate on You - Porter
I Get a Kick Out of You
If I were a Rich Man - Fiddler on the Roof
It's All Right With Me - Cole Porter
I Got Rhythm - Gershwin
I Love You - Cole Porter
I've Got you Under my Skin - Porter
La Cumparsita - Traditional Tango
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off - Gershwin
Let’s Do It
Makin Whoopee
Misty
Moonlight in Vermont
Moon River - Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Night and Day - Cole Porter
My Funny Valentine
One Hand, One Heart - West Side Story
One Day LIke This - Elbow
Over the Rainbow
Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin
Pennies From Heaven
She
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Someone to Watch Over Me - Gershwin
Somebody Loves Me
Spread a Little Happiness
Strangers in the Night
Summertime - Gershwin- ‘Porgy and Bess’
Sunrise, Sunset - Fiddler on the Roof
Thank You For the Music - Abba
The Man I Love
The Man I Love - Arr. Thorp
Trois Couleurs Blanc
Upstairs Downstairs
What is this Thing Called Love - Cole Porter
Willkommen Bien Venue - Cabaret
Wonderwall - Oasis
Yesterday - Beatles
You'd be So Nice to Come Home To - Porter
Selected Wedding Music
Trumpet Tune - Purcell
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Wedding March - Wagner
Queen of Sheba - Handel
Rondeau - Mouret
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Bach
Ave Maria - Schubert
Air - Bach
Aria from Xerxes - Handel
Largo from Winter - Vivaldi
Liebestraum - Liszt
Wedding March - Mendelssohn
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Theme from Pride and Prejudice
- 1995 BBC Adaptation
Andante Festivo - Sibelius
Claire de Lune - Debussy
Dance of the Hours - Ponchelli
G. Cake Walk - Debussy
La Forza del Destino - Verdi
Liebesfreud - Kreisler
Liebeslied - Kreisler
Schon Rosmarin - Kreisler
The Swan - Saint-Saens
Sandpaper Ballet - Leroy Anderson
The Syncopated Clock - Leroy Andersonn
Tango - Albeniz
Allegro Maestoso - Handel- Water Music
Andante Festivo - Sibelius
Arabian Dance - Tchaikovsky
Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 - Bach
Capriol Suite 1. Basse Danse - Warlock
Chanson de Matin - Elgar
Chanson de Nuit - Elgar
Claire de Lune - Debussy
Dance of the Hours - Ponchelli
Divertimenti - Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart
Humoresque - Dvorak
Hungarian Dances nos. 1 & 5 - Brahms
La Forza del Destino - Verdi
Liebesfreud - Kreisler
Liebeslied - Kreisler
Meditation from Thais - Massenet
Menuett - Boccherini
Military Dance - Schubert
Nimrod - Elgar
Norwegian Dance no. 3 - Grieg
Passacaglia - Handel
Pavane - Faure
Quartet in C Major K. 157 - Mozart
Romance - Shostakovich
Salut d’Amour - Elgar
Sandpaper Ballet - Leroy Anderson
Schon Rosmarin - Kreisler
The Swan - Saint-Saens
The Syncopated Clock - Leroy Andersonn
Tango - Albeniz
Vocalise - Rachmaninov
Water Music - Handel
Scottish
For the Love of a Princess
Londonderry Air
Lord Kelly's Reel
My Love is lke a Red Rose
The Hut on Staffin Island - Phil Cunningham
Sonata on Scots Tunes - James Oswald
Waiting for the Federals
Selection of Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes, Strathspeys and Airs
Opera
Barcarolle - Tales of Hoffman - Offenbach
Brindisi - La Traviata - Verdi
Carmen: Habanera - Bizet
Carmer: Toreador’s Song - Bizet
Flower Duet - Lakme - Delibes
Funiculi Funicula - Denza
Intermezzo - Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni
Lascia Ch’io Planga - Handel
Musetta’s Waltz Song - La Boheme - Puccini
Nessun Dorma - Puccini
Non Piu Andrai - Marriage of Figaro- Mozart
O Mio Babbino Caro - Gianni Schicchi- Puccini
O Sole Mio - Capua
Rigoletto- Quartet - Verdi
Voi Che Sapete - Marriage of Figaro- Mozart
William Tell: Overture - Rossini
William Tell: Ballet Music - Rossini
Walther’s Prize Song - Die Meistersinger- Wagner
Waltz/Polka
Blue Danube - Strauss
Dvorak Waltzes nos. 1 & 2 - Dvorak
Pizzicato Polka - Strauss
Radetsky March - Strauss
Roses From the South - Strauss
Sleeping Beauty Waltz - Tchaikovsky
Tales from the Vienna Woods - Strauss
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - Strauss
Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky
Waltz from Symphony no. 5 - Tchaikovsky
Hymns
Be Still For the Presence of the Lord
Be Thou My Vision
Give me Joy in My Heart
The Lord of the Dance
Morning Has Broken
Shine Jesus Shine
We Plough the Fields And Scatter
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