Midlands String Quartet
Our Midlands String Quartet was founded in 2008 by cellist Rachel at the Royal Northern College of Music, and has since been in demand to provide top quality music for events UK-wide for clients including Manchester City Football Club, The Co-Operative, Bentley Motors, HSBC, Granada ITV & Finnair. The quartet brings together professional players for Private & Corporate Events and Session Work. We offer a range of ensembles to suit individual requirements.
The flair they bring to their extensive repertoire from Bach, Gershwin & Muse has seen Leos Strings add a real lift to a wide variety of functions, and their busy schedule speaks for the ecstatic feedback they continue to receive from witnesses of their work. With special arrangements made to demand for requests outside of their repertoire list, and an enviable roster of dynamic, young, professional musicians forming the ensemble, our Midlands String Quartet are a must-have for any discerning corporate or private event.
Our Midlands String Quartet also have options for Trio & Duo line-ups and perform for weddings, private & corporate events as well as providing musicians for session work.
For more information on our Midlands String Quartet, please contact us via our online form, email us at info@eventsorganised.co.uk or call 01747 835433.
Repertoire
Classical
Albeniz - Tango
Albinoni - Adagio for Strings
Bach - Air on a G String, Ave Maria (Gounod), Double Violin Concerto (1st & 2nd movement, Gavotte, Jesu Joy, Brandenburg No.3, Sheep May Safely Graze, Arioso, Wachet Auf, Bist du bei mir, Violin Concerto in A Minor 1st movement
Berlioz - The Shepherds Farewell
Bizet - Prelude to Carmen Toreador’s Song
Boccherini - Minuet
Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance
Boyce - Symphony No 1 Extracts Trumpet Voluntary
Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.5, Hungarian Dance No.6, St Anthony Chorale
Bruch - Violin Concerto Adagio
Burns - My Love is Like a Red Red Rose
Charpentier - Prelude from Te Deum
Chopin – Cantabile, Nocturne Op 9 No 2
Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary
Corelli - Christmas Concerto
Da Capua - O Sole Mio
Debussy - Girl with the flaxen hair, Golliwog’s Cakewalk, Clair de Lune, Le Petit Negre
Delibes - Flower Duet
Donizetti - Una furtiva lagrima
Dvorak - Serenade Op.44, Largo from New World Symphony, Slavonic Dance No. VIII
Elgar - Salut D’Amour, Chanson de Matin, Serenade for strings, Nimrod
Faure – Pavane, Pie Jesu
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Gluck - Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Grieg - Morning from Peer Gynt
Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Hornpipe, Sarabande & Bourree, La Paix, La Rejouissance, Lascia ch’io pianga, March from Occasional Oratorio, Movements from Water Music, Minuet from Berenice, The Eternal Source of Light Divine, Ombra Mai Fu, Zadok the Priest, Water Music Hornpipe
Haydn - Movements from Quartet No 3
Holst - Brook Green Suite
Humperdinck - Prayer from Hansel & Gretel
Ivanovici - Waves of the Danube (The Anniversary Waltz)
Jackson – Reels, Walkin’ up Town, The Keel Row, Staggerin’ back from town
Jenkins - Palladio
Joplin – Bethena, The Easy Winners, Country Club
Khachaturian - Adagio from Spartacus
Lehar- Merry Widow Valse
Macdowell - To a Wild Rose
Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony 5
Massenet - Meditation from Thais
Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana
Mendelssohn - O For The Wings of a Dove, Wedding March
Mouret - Rondeau
Monti - Czardas
Morricone - Gabriel’s Oboe
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Ave Verum Corpus, Alleluja from Exultate Jubilate, Divertimento in D major, Divertimento in F, Excerpts from Quartet No.1, Excerpts from Quartet No.9, Menuetto & Adagio from ‘Gran Partita’, Excerpts from Quartet No.17
Offenbach – Barcarolle, Can Can
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Paradis - Sicilienne
Piazolla - Libertango
Puccini - Nessun Dorma, O Mio - Babbino Caro
Purcell - Chaconne & Rondeau
Rachmaninov - 18th Variation on a Theme of Paganini
Rameau - Entree (Les Boreades)
Satie - Gymnopedie No 1
Satori - Time to Say Goodbye
de Severac - Tantum ergo
Shostakovich - Romance from Gadfly
Schubert - Ave Maria, Rosamunde Entr’acte, Serenade
Schumann - Traumerei
Stanley - Trumpet Voluntary
Sousa - The Washington Post
Stolz - Two hearts in 3/4 time
Strauss - Mein Herr Marquis , Emperor Waltz, Pizzicato Polka, Tales from Vienna Woods, Thousand and One Nights, The Blue Danube, Shawl-Polka, Radetzky March, Lust’ger Rath Polka
Tartini - Cantabile
Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty Waltz
Trad - Calon Lan, Carrickfergus, Country Gardens, Drink to me only, Go Lassie, Go, Greensleaves, Highland Cathedral, Loch Lomond, Londonderry Air, Moreton Bay, Shenandoah, The Ash Grove, The Double Lead Through, The Water Is Wide, Ye Banks & Braes, Suite of Irish Dances
Ungar - Ashokan Farewell
Vivaldi - Excerpts from Spring & Largo from Winter
Verdi - La donna e mobile, Libiamo
Wagner - Bridal March
Pop Music
A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles
Alejandro - Lady Gaga
All I Want Is You - U2
All My Life - KC & JoJo
All Of Me - John Legend
All You Need is Love - Beatles
And I Love You So - Don McLean
Annie’s Song - John Denver
Angels Robbie - Williams
A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Back in Black - ACDC
Back in the USSR - Beatles
Baptized - Daughtry
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Blue Monday - New Order
Blue Moon - Richard Rodgers
Boys Don’t Cry - The Cure
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Can’t Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
Can’t Stop - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Valli
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Elton John
Charlie Brown - Coldplay
Chandelier - Sia
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Chi Mai - Morricone
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Come on Eileen - Rowland
Copacabana - Barry Manilow
Counting Stars - One Republic
Dance Dance - Fall Out Boy
Dancing Queen - Abba
Day Tripper - The Beatles
Don’t Look Back In Anger - Oasis
Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey
Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen
Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Empire State Of Mind - Alicia Keys /Jay Z
Eskimo - Damien Rice
Everlasting Love - Love Affair
Everybody Needs a Best Friend - Norah Jones
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Everything I Do I Do It For You - Kamen
FC Porto Anthem FC - Porto Football Song
Firework - Katy Perry
Footprints in the Sand - Leona Lewis
Free Fallin’ - Tom Petty
Everything - Lifehouse
Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine
Fields of Gold -Sting
Fix You - Coldplay
Flaws - Bastille
Forget You - Cee Lo Green
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Greatest Day - Take That
Groovy Kind Of Love - Phil Collins
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Happy - Pharrell Williams
Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now - The Smiths
Here Come the Girls - Sugarbabes
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
Here There and Everywhere - The Beatles
Hernando’s Hideaway / Light My Fire - Jerry Ross / The Doors
Hey Jude - Beatles
Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
How Long Will I Love You - Ellie Goulding
How to Build a Home - Cinematic Orchestra
Human The Killers
I Believe In A Thing Called Love The Darkness
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do Abba
I Feel Good James Brown
I Got A Feeling Black Eyed Peas
I just called to say I love you Stevie Wonder
I Keep Having These Dreams Micah P Hinson
I Know You By Heart Eva Cassidy
I’ll be your mirror Lou Reed
I’ll Stand By You Chrissie Hynde
I’m Still Standing Elton John
I’m Yours Jason Mraz
In My Life - Beatles
In My Place - Coldplay
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
I Look To You - Whitney Houston
It Must Be Love - Madness
It’s Not Unusual - Tom Jones
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic at the disco
Keeping the Dream Alive - Freheit
Kids - MGMT
Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack
Kiss from a Rose - Seal
Kissing You - Des’ree
Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer
Let Her Go - Passenger
Life On Mars - David Bowie
Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney
Love Is All Around - Wet, Wet, Wet
Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
Love On Top - Beyonce
Love Story - Taylor Swift
Love will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Lullaby - Billy Joel
Make You Feel My Love - Adele
Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys
Marry You - Bruno Mars
Masterplan - Oasis
Medley - Michael Jackson
Money, Money, Money - Abba
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
Michelle - Beatles
Mr Brightside - Killers
Nights in White Satin - Hayward
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
One - Shapeshifter
One Day Like This - Elbow
Outta My Head - Daughtry
Paradise - Coldplay
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
Raging Fire - Philip Philips
Rather Be - Clean Bandit
Regret - New Order
Roar - Katy Perry
Roll With It - Oasis
Rule The World - Take That
Run - Snow Patrol
Samson - Regina Spektor
Sex on Fire - Kings Of Leon
Signed Sealed Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Sit Down - James
Skyline Pigeon - Elton John
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin
Stay With Me - Sam Smith
Stern Des Sudens - Bayern Munich FC Song
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Starlight - Muse
Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns and Roses
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Take Me To Church - Hozier
Take On Me - A-Ha
Ten Storey Love Song - Stone Roses
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Blower’s Daughter - Damien Rice
The Book Of Love - Peter Gabriel
The Final Countdown - Joey Tempest
The Long & Winding Road - The Beatles
The Power Of Love - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
The Prayer - Celine Dion
The Luckiest - Ben Folds
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
The Winner Takes It All - Abba
The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy
There is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheerhan
This Charming Man - The Smiths
This is The One - Stone Roses
Thunderstruck - ACDC
Time of Your Life - Greenday
Toxic - Britney Spears
True Colours - Phil Collins
Turning Page - Sleeping At Last
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
Untitled No.3 - Sigur Ros
Film & Musicals
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes - Cinderella
A Gift of a Thistle - Braveheart
Allo Allo Theme - Allo Allo
All I Ask of You - Phantom of The Opera
Ashokan Farewell - The Civil War
Anne’s Theme - Anne of Green Gables
A Whole New World - Aladdin
Back to the Future - Back to the Future
Bella Notte - Lady and the Tramp
Be Our Guest - Beauty & The Beast
Black Adder Theme - Black Adder
Bring Him Home - Les Miserables
Cantina Band - Star Wars
Cavatina - Deer Hunter
Cinema Paradiso Theme - Cinema Paradiso
Champions - Grand National Theme
Come What May - Moulin Rouge
Concerning Hobbits - Lord of the Rings
Dad’s Army Theme - Dad’s Army
Earth - Gladiator
Everybody Needs a Best Friend - Ted
Family Guy - Family Guy
Fawlty Towers Theme - Fawlty Towers
Film Themes Medley - Various
Forrest Gump Theme - Forrest Gump
Friend Like Me - Aladdin
Gabriel’s Oboe - The Mission
Game of Thrones Theme - Game of Thrones
Gilbert & Sullivan Medley - Gilbert & Sullivan
Godfather Theme - The Godfather
Hawaii Five-O - Hawaii Five-O
Hedwig’s Theme - Harry Potter
Hollow Talk - The Bridge
I Could’ve Danced all Night - My Fair Lady
I Dreamed A Dream - Les Miserables
Ice Dance – Edward Scissorhands
I Feel Pretty - West Side Story
Imperial March/Bridal March Mashup - Williams / Wagner
I See The Light - Tangled
James Bond Theme - James Bond
Jeeves & Wooster Theme - Jeeves & Wooster
Jolly Holiday - Mary Poppins
Kisses and Cake - P.S. I Love You
Kissing You - Romeo & Juliet
Ladies in Lavender - Ladies in Lavender
Les Avions - Les Choristes
Let It Go - Frozen
Looney Tunes - Warner Bros
Magnificent Seven Theme - E. Bernstein
Married Life - Up
Match Of The Day Theme - Leslie Statham
Memory - Cats
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Meryton Townhall - Pride & Prejudice
Music of the Night - Phantom of The Opera
My Heart Will Go On - Titanic
My Love - Twilight
Nearer My God To Thee - Titanic
Nobody Does it Better - James Bond
Now We Are Free - Gladiator
One Day More - Les Miserables
One Hand, One Heart - West Side Story
Pelaggia’s Song - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Pirates of The Caribbean Theme - Pirates of The Caribbean
Pink Panther - Pink Panther
Portuguese Love Theme - Love Actually
Pure Imagination - Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Red Dwarf Theme - Red Dwarf
River Flows In You - Twilight
Romeo & Juliet Theme - Romeo & Juliet
Schindler’s List - Schindler’s List
Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music
She - Notting Hill
Skyfall - James Bond
Star Trek - Star Trek
Superman Theme - Superman
Tale As Old As Time - Beauty & The Beast
The Bare Necessities - The Jungle Book
The Impossible Girl - Doctor Who
The Ludlows - Legends of the Fall
The Lord is My Shepherd - The Vicar of Dibley
The Notebook Theme - Aaron Zigman
Three Little Maids Gilbert & Sullivan
Throne Room Music Star Wars
Under The Sea The Little Mermaid
Where is Love? From ‘Oliver’
You’ll never walk alone Carousel
Young & Beautiful Great Gatsby
You’ve Got a Friend in Me - From ‘Toy Story’
We Have All The Time In The World - James Bond
With You - From the musical Ghost
Wind In The Willows Theme - Wind in The Willows
Light/Jazz Music
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Sherwin
Andaluza - Granados
Anything Goes - Cole Porter
As Time Goes By - Hupfeld
At Last - Etta James
Autumn Leaves - J Kosma
Aura Lee - Elvis
Bee Gees / Carpenters Medley - Bee Gees & Carpenters
Begin the Beguine - Cole Porter
Blue Moon - Richard Rodgers
Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin
Bring me Sunshine - Morecambe & Wise
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Caravan - Duke Ellington
Can’t Help Falling In Love - Elvis
Chattanooga Choo Choo - Harry
Cheek To Cheek - Irving Berlin
Chicago - Fred Fisher
Close To You – Bacharach
Come in From The Rain - Legrand
Come Fly with Me - Heusen
Dear Heart - Mancini
Desafinado - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Do It Again - Gershwin
El Esquinazo - Gregorio Villoldo
Embraceable You - Geshwin
Feeling Good - Nina Simone
Foggy Day in London Town - Gershwin
For Just A Moment - Foster
Fly Me To The Moon - Bart Howard
Every Time We Say Goodbye - Cole Porter
Ever Green - Barbara Streisand
Feelings - Albert
Forgotten Dreams - Anderson
Foxtrot - Anon
Girl from Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Goodbye to Love - Bettis & Carpenter
I Love Paris - Porter
If You Could Read My Mind - Lightfoot
It Don’t Mean A Thing - Duke Ellington
It Had to Be You - Jones
In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington
In The Mood Garland
Just for a Moment David Foster
La Bamba Trad. Mexican
La Cumparsita - Blaya
Laura - Raskin
La Vie En Rose - Edith Piaf
Let’s Do It - Cole Porter
Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole
Life In A Looking Glass - Mancini
L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
Love and Marriage - James van Heusen
Love is Here To Stay - Gershwin
Love Walked In - Gershwin
Lullaby of Birdland - George Shearing
Misty - Eroll Garner
Moon River - Mancini
Moondance - Morrison
Mr Lucky - Mancini
My Funny - Valentine Rodgers
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Noites Cariocas - Bandolim
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Pennies from Heaven - Johnson
Por Una Cabeza - Gardel
Satin Doll - Johnny Mercer
Smile - Charlie Chaplin
Someone To Watch Over Me - Gershwin
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Arlen
Stormy Weather - Arlen
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - J. Kern
Sunrise, Sunset - Bock
Summertime - Gershwin
Sway/Cherry Pink - Beltran
That’s Amore - Harry Warren
The Sound of Silence - Simon
The Man I Love - Gershwin
The Summer Knows - Legrand
They Can’t Take That Away From Me - Gershwin
The Windmills of Your Mind - Michael Legrand
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
Volare - Modugno
What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life? - Legrand
When I Fall In Love - V Young
Wonderful World - Armstrong
You’re The First, The Last, MyEverything - Barry White
Bollywood
Aaj Mera Yaar Ki Shadi
Aye ho meri zindagi me
Balle Balle
Churaliya
Do Dil Pagal Hai
Ed ladki ko dekha
Kabhie Kabhie
Kal ho na ho
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Mein Hu na
Monsoon Wedding
Pardesi Pardesi
Teri meri pyar mein
Christmas
All I Want for Christmas is my 2 Front Teeth
All I want for Christmas is You
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
Carol of the Bells
Deck The Halls
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Holly & the Ivy
I Wish It Could Be Xmas Everyday
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Jingle Bells
Joy To The World
Last Christmas
Let it snow! Let is snow! Let it snow!
Merry Xmas (War is Over)
O Christmas Tree
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Come, O Come Immanuel
O Holy Night
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Once in Royal David’s City
Pat a Pan
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Silent Night
Silver Bells
Sussex Carol
The 12 days of Christmas
The Christmas Song
The Christmas Waltz
The Coventry Carol
The First Nowell
The Holly and The Ivy
The Little Drummer Boy
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Wexford Carol
While Shepherds Watched
White Christmas
Winter Wonderland
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I would just like to say a huge thank you for playing at our wedding yesterday. You were absolutely amazing and everyone loved you. I'm sorry we didn't see you so say goodbye and thank you before you left. Thank you for being part of our day and helping to make it perfect.
Wedding
Shropshire

"A little note to say a HUGE heart felt thank you from us both for coordinating and playing the most incredible music for our wedding day. THANK YOU. I am just so sorry that I wasn't in the ceremony marquee for long enough prior to the service to hear more of your beautiful music! All of our friends and family have been telling us how incredible the music was and we certainly loved every moment of the service and when we heard your beautiful playing at the drinks. We hope that you had fun and just so sorry we didnt chat to you all but I guess that was kind of inevitable. Thank you for being so fabulous in the lead up to the wedding and for making our special day so very memorable. I hope that you are well and please please do pass on our thanks to your fellow Leos Strings and the choir. You were all FABULOUS."
Wedding
Worcestershire

"Thank you so much for playing during our wedding, easy to communicate with and a wide and varied range of songs within the repertoire to select from. Many of the guests commented on how the duo aided a lovely atmosphere particularly during the drinks reception and the music was enjoyed by all. Thanks so much for helping to make our special day extra special!"
Wedding
Chorley