1 hour: from £620 |
1.5 hours: from £666 |
2 hours: from £726 |
2.5 hours: from £786 |
3 hours: from £847 |
3.5 hours: from £908 |
4 hours: from £980 |
4.5 hours: from £1053 |
Cadenza String Quartet is one of the Midlands’ finest string quartets - comprising of some of the regions best string players. We are specialists in providing the perfect atmosphere for weddings and events, with our players having played at over 2000 weddings!
All of Cadenza’s players are regular performers with other ensembles and orchestras, including The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, The Hallé, The Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, so the breadth and depth of experience is vast. We are dedicated to making the best impression at your special event.
We have our own PA system, so should the event require more than the simple acoustic sound of the quartet, with notice, we are able to set up our system (additional fees required)
Cadenza is included on some of the region’s best venues suppliers’ lists and our members have performed for HRH The Queen, venues include The Albert Hall, The Barbican and Glastonbury, and clients include Toyota, Boots, Arriva Buses, The BBC…
Based in Lichfield, Staffordshire
9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
A Groovy Kind of Love
A Foggy Day
A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles
A Millon Dreams (The Greatest Showman)
A Million Love Songs – Take That
A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square
A Whole New World (Aladdin)
Abba Medley
Adventure of a Lifetime - Coldplay
Africa - Toto
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
All About You - McFly
All I Ask Of You (Phantom of the Opera)
All My Love - Led Zeppelin
All Of Me - John Legend
All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
America (West Side Story)
Amor de Chocolat - Naldo
Angels - Robbie Williams
Annie’s Song – John Denver
Any Dream Will Do
Anything Goes
As Time Goes By
Ashokan Farewell
At Last - Etta James
At the Beginning (Anastasia)
Baby - Justin Bieber
Back in Black - AC/DC
Back in the U.S.S.R - The Beatles
Back to Bacharach (a medley)
Bad Guy – Billy Eilish
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Be Our Guest (Beauty and the Beast)
Begin the Beguine - Porter
Bella Notte (Lady and the Tramp)
Ben - Michael Jackson
Besame Mucho - Consuelo Velasquez
Best Day of My Life
Beyond the Sea
Biblical – Callum Scott
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Blue Moon
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Book of Days - Enya
Brown Eyed Girl
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Bring Me Sunshine
Can You Feel the Love Tonight (The Lion King)
Can’t Help Falling in Love With You - Elvis
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man (Showboat)
Can’t Stop the Feeling - Justin Timberlake
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Andy Williams
Cantina Band (Star Wars)
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Cheek to Cheek
Chi Mai
Chicago - Fisher
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chura Liya Hai Tumne Jo dil ko
Clocks - Coldplay
Close To You - The Carpenters
Colours of the Wind
Come Fly With Me
Come in From the Rain - Manchester
Come on Eileen
Come What May (Moulin Rouge)
Common People - Pulp
Concerning Hobbits
Copacabana – Barry Manilow
Counting Stars - One Republic
Country Joe
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Creep - Radiohead
Cry Me A River - Hamilton
Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Day Tripper - The Beatles
Delilah – Tom Jones
Do It Again - Gershwin
Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Frozen)
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (Evita)
Don’t Stop Believing - Journey
Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen
Eight Days A Week - The Beatles
El Tango de Roxanne (Moulin Rouge)
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Embraceable You - Gershwin
Evergreen - Streisand
Everlasting Love
Every Tear Is A Waterfall - Coldplay
Every Time We Say Goodbye
Everything - Michael Bublé
Everything I Do, I Do It For You
Falling Slowly
Feelings - Andy Williams
FHG (Initials of a slightly naughty Tenacious D song!)
Fields of Gold - The Police
Fly Me to the Moon
For Just a Moment (St. Elmo’s Fire)
For The Love of a Princess (Braveheart)
Friday, I’m in Love
Frozen - Madonna
Get Back - The Beatles
Get Lucky - Daft Punk / Pharrell Williams
Girl - The Beatles
Girl from Ipanema
Give Me Everything – AFROJACK/Ne-Yo
Give Me Love - Ed Sheeran
Glasgow Love Theme (Love Actually)
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Gonna Fly Now (Rocky)
Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles
Goodbye to Love - Carpenter
Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles
Greatest Day - Take That
Hallelujah
Halo - Beyoncé
Happy - Pharrell Williams
Hasta Mi Final
Hava Nagila
Havana – Camila Cabello
Have I Told You Lately
Have You Met Miss Jones?
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Hella Bar Talk (Star Trek)
Hello - Adele
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
Here, There and Everywhere - The Beatles
Hernando’s Hideaway / Light My Fire
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hey Soul Sister – Train
Hey There Delilah – Plain White T’s
High – Lighthouse Family
Higher Love
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Hoppipolla
Hotel California - Eagles
How Deep is Your Love - Bee Gees
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria (The Sound of Music)
How Far I’ll Go (Moana)
How High The Moon
How Long Will I Love You - Ellie Goulding
I Can Go The Distance (Hercules)
I Could’ve Danced All Night (My Fair Lady)
I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
I Feel Good - James Brown
I Feel Pretty (West Side Story)
I Got Rhythm
I Know Him So Well (Chess)
I Love Paris - Cole Porter
I Love You - Cole Porter
I Only Want to Be With You – Dusty Springfield
I Was Born to Love - Queen
If You Could Read My Mind - Lightfoot
Il Postino (The Postman)
In My Blood
In My Life - The Beatles
In The Mood - Garland
I’ll Be There for You - The Rembrants
I’m Yours - Jason Mraz
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
It Had To Be You
It Must Be Love - Madness
It’s Only a Paper Moon
John Ryan’s Polka
Just Can’t Get Enough – Depeche Mode
Just Dance - Lady Gaga
Just Give Me a Reason - Pink
Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
Karma Police - Radiohead
Kashmir - Led Zepplin
Kiss From a Rose - Seal
Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Kissing You - Des’ree
La Bamba
La Vie en Rose
Laura – Raksin
Learn to Fly
Les Misérables medley
Let It Go (Frozen)
Let There Be Love – Nat King Cole
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Let’s Do It
Let’s Face The Music And Dance
Let’s Stay Together - Al Green
Levitating – Dua Lipa
Life On Mars? – David Bowie
Livin’ On a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Livin’ Thing - ELO
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Looney Tunes Fugue
Lost in the Woods (Frozen 2)
Love and Marriage
Love is Here to Stay
Love is Not a Fight
Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding
Love of My Life - Queen
Love Story - Taylor Swift
Lovely – Billie Eilish
Lover – Taylor Swift
L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
Lucky - Jason Mraz / Colbie Caillat
Maestro (The Holiday)
Make You Feel My Love - Bob Dylan
Makin’ Whoopee
Mardy Bum
Maria (West Side Story)
Marry You - Bruno Mars
Memory (Cats)
Misty
Money - Pink Floyd
Money, Money, Money
Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
Moondance – Van Morrison
Moonlight in Vermont
Moonlight Serenade
Motown Forever (Motown Medley)
Murder on the Dancefloor
Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams
Mr. Blue Sky – ELO
Mr. Brightside – The Killers
My Favourite Things (The Sound of Music)
My Funny Valentine
My Girl - The Temptations
My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
My Way - Frank Sinatra
Mystic Caravan
Nemo Egg (Finding Nemo)
New York, New York - Bernstein
New York, New York – Sinatra
Never Enough (The Greatest Showman)
Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
Now I See the Light
Now We Are Free (Gladiator)
On My Own (Les Misérables)
One Day Like This - Elbow
One Hand, One Heart (West Side Story)
Only If - Enya
Over The Rainbow (Wizard of Oz)
Over The Rainbow – Israel “IZ”
Paint It Black – Rolling Stones
Paradise – Coldplay
Part Of Your World (Pocahontas)
Pennies From Heaven
Perfect - Ed Sheeran
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Pianoman – Billy Joel
Pink Panther
Pirates of the Caribbean Medley
Plink! Plank! Plunk!
Poker Face - Lady Gaga
Pompeii - Bastille
Portuguese Love Theme (Love Actually)
Purple Haze - Hendrix
Queen Medley (We will Rock You / Another One Bites the Dust / We are the Champions)
R U Mine? – Arctic Monkeys
Rather Be
Reach For The Stars – S Club
Reel Fiddlin’ (Traditional Folk Reels)
Rio – Duran Duran
River Flows in You
Rockabye - Clean Bandit
Rockin’ All Over The World - Status Quo
Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Roxanne - The Police
Royals - Lordes
Rude - Magic
Rule the World - Take That
Run - Snow Patrol
Sarah - Thin Lizzy
Say a Little Prayer - Burt Bacharach
Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel
Secrets - One Republic
September – Earth, Wind and Fire
Sexy Boy - Air
Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
Shallow (A Star is Born)
She (The Seven Faces of Woman)
She’s The One - Robbie Williams
Shut Up and Dance - Walk The Moon
Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Stevie Wonder
Simply The Best – Tina Turner
Singin’ in the Rain
Skinny Love - Birdy
Sky Full of Stars - Coldplay
Skyfall - Adele
Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
So Close (Enchanted)
So Happy Together - The Turtles
Someone Like You - Adele
Someone You Loved
Someone To Watch Over Me
Somethin' Stupid
Somewhere (West Side Story)
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Songbird
Soul Bossa Nova (Austin Powers Theme)
Spring Recomposed (Bridgerton)
Sportsnet (Blue Jays Theme)
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Stand By Me
Stay With Me - Sam Smith
Stormy Weather – Arlen
Strange (Bridgerton)
Strangers in the Night - Sinatra
Stuff We Did (Disney’s UP)
Summertime
Sunrise Sunset (Fiddler On The Roof)
Super Trooper
Sway / Cherry Pink - Michael Bublé
Sweet Caroline
Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics
Sweet Home Alabama
Take Five
Take Me Home, Country Road – John Denver
Take Me to Church - Hozier
Take The A Train
Tale as Old as Time (Beauty and The Beast)
Talking to the Moon - Bruno Mars
Tea For Two
Tender - Blur
Thank You for the Music
That’s Amore
That Don’t Impress Me Much
That Means A Lot - The Beatles
The Bare Necessities (Jungle Book)
The Chad Who Loved Me - Mansun
The Ecstasy of Gold (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
The Folks Who Live On The Hill
The Fool On The Hill - The Beatles
The Harry Lime Theme
The Man I Love
The Music of the Night (Phantom of the Opera)
The One - Kodaline
The Rainbow Connection
The Rose - Bette Midler
The Secret Wedding (Braveheart)
The Way We Were
The Wellerman Sea Shanty
Theme from Bridgerton
Theme from Fawlty Towers
Theme from Forrest Gump
Theme from Game of Thrones
Theme from Ghostbusters
Theme from Harry Potter (medley)
Theme from James Bond
Theme from Jurassic Park
Theme from Legend of the Fall – The Ludlows
Theme from Poirot
Theme from Pokémon
Theme from Pride and Prejudice (BBC TV series)
Theme from Ski Sunday (Pop Looks Bach)
Theme from Star Wars
Theme from Super Mario
Theme from Tarzan - Phil Collins
Theme from The Addams Family
Theme from The Godfather (Love theme)
Theme from The Legend of Zelda
Theme from The Phantom Menace
Theme from The Simpsons
Theme from Underwater Mario Bros
Theme from World of Warcraft (Lions Pride)
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
This is Me (The Greatest Showman)
Thousand Years (The Twilight Saga)
Three Lions – The Lightning Seeds
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
Time (Inception)
Time Of Your Life - Green Day
Titanium - Sia
Top Of The World - The Carpenters
“Tradition” (Fiddler on the Roof)
Turning Page (The Twilight Saga)
Unforgettable
Until I Found You – Stephen Sanchez
Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars / Mark Ronson
Vera Cruz
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Wake Me Up - Aviici
Wave
We Are Young – Fun
We Don’t Talk About Bruno (Encanto)
We Go Together (Grease)
We Have All The Time In The World
West Side Story Mix
Wake Me Up - Avicii
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
What Are You Doing For The Rest of Your Life?
What’s This Thing Called Love?
When I Fall in Love
When I’m Sixty-Four - The Beatles
When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Wildest Dreams (Bridgerton) – Taylor Swift
With a Little Help from My Friends - The Beatles
With Or Without You - U2
Without You - David Guetta
Woman - John Lennon
Wonderful Tonight
Wonderwall - Oasis
Writing’s on the Wall - Sam Smith
Yellow - Coldplay
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
Yesterday - The Beatles
You Can’t Stop The Beat (Hairspray)
You Got The Love – Florence & The Machine
You Make My Dreams Come True – Hall & Oates
You’ll Be In My Heart (Tarzan)
You’ll Never Walk Alone – Rogers/Hammerstein
You’re My First, My Last, My Everything - Barry White
You’re Still The One – Shania Twain
You’re Welcome (Moana)
Your Song - Elton John
You’ve Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story)
Adagio - Albinoni
Adagio (Secret Garden) – Lovland
Adagio (Violin Concerto) - Bruch
Air and Simple Gifts
Air on the G String - Bach
Amapola - Morricone
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba – Handel
Arrival of the Birds
Ave Maria * – Gounod
Ave Maria * – Schubert
Badinerie - Bach
Barcarolle – Offenbach
Berceuse – Fauré
Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss
Bolero - Ravel
Canon in D – Pachelbel
Chanson de Matin – Elgar
Chanson de Nuit – Elgar
Che Gelida Manina (La Bohéme) - Puccini
Clair de Lune - Débussy
Con Te Partiro (Time To Say Goodbye)
Czardas - Monti
Danse des Mirlitons (The Nutcracker) - Tchaikovsky
Double Violin Concerto (1st & 2nd mvts) – Bach
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart
Elizabethan Serenade
Elvira Madigan – Mozart
First Polovtsian Dance - Borodin
Flower Duet - Delibes
Four Seasons – Vivaldi
Funiculì Funiculà - Denza
Gabriel’s Oboe - Morricone
Grand Finale / Ice Dance (Edward Scissorhands)
Greensleeves
Here Comes the Bride – Wagner
Humming Chorus (Madame Butterfly) – Puccini
Humoresque - Dvorák
I Giorni - Einaudi
Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana)- Mascagni
Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring * - Bach
Largo (Xerxes) - Handel
Largo (New World Symphony)- Dvorák
Lark Quartet (1st mvt) – Haydn
March (The Marriage of Figaro) – Mozart
Meditation (Thaïs) – Massanet
Melody in F – Rubinstein
Minuet in G – Boccherini
‘Morning’ (Peer Gynt Suite) – Grieg
Nessun Dorma – Puccini
Nimrod – Elgar
Norwegian Dance No.2 – Grieg
O Mio Babbino Caro – Puccini
‘O Sole Mio - Capua
Palladio (De Beers Diamond advert)
Pavane - Fauré
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1st variation)
Romance - Shostakovich
Roses From The South - Strauss
Salut d’Amour – Elgar
Schindler’s List
Sheep May Safely Graze * - Bach
Skaters’ Waltz - Strauss
Sleeping Beauty Waltz - Tchaikovski
Softly Awakes My Heart – Saint-Saëns
Song from ‘A Secret Garden’ - Lovland
Song To The Moon – Dvorák
Te Deum
The Girl With The Flaxen Hair - Débussy
The Lark Ascending – Vaughan Williams
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Rogers
The Swan – Saint-Saëns
Theme from Angels and Demons - Zimmer
Theme from Cinema Paradiso - E. Morricone
Thieving Magpie Overture - Rossini
Tik-Tak Polka - Strauss
Traumerei – Schumman
Trumpet Tune in D – Purcell
Trumpet Voluntary – Clarke
Two Rondeaux – Purcell
Vocalise - Rachmaninov
Voices of Spring - Strauss
Vivo per Lei
Water Music – Handel
Wedding Day At Troldhaugen – Grieg
Wedding March - Mendelssohn
We would need 4 armless chairs, a safe room for cases, access to power points should the venue require us to bring our PA system.
We bring our own lights for the music stands. We’re happy to bring along our PA system if needed - additional time would be required for us to set this up, so do let us know if this would be needed at enquiry.
We will potentially arrive in 4 different cars, so it would be really helpful if we knew if there was limited parking at the venue.
No, as we’re an acoustic set-up we are unable to provide external music between sets.
We performed at a wedding of a couple who owned a Boeing 747 . As the clients were part of the RAF, they had a private aerial show by the Red Arrows and Spitfires (amongst others!) during the reception. Whilst they were performing their stunts we felt compelled to play some of our powerful and majestic pieces - very spine-tingling!
We absolutely love music by Hans Zimmer - his music incorporates strings so beautifully. We are huge fans of any Andy Williams piece we have, and will always try to find a spot during a set to play either Music to Watch Girls By or Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You!
We have all studied music at the UK’s top conservatoires - even prior to going to them we have played as part of a string ensemble - where we studied some of the classics (Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovich…). To help pay our way through college we would busk and perform with professional orchestras. Following that we each joined ensembles performing at various weddings, events and parties, accompanying famous artists on tour, as well as playing throughout the UK and abroad.
Tricky question really as we love playing at all of them! Weddings to see the happy faces of both the couple and their guests. Corporate and charity events knowing we are making a difference. Birthday parties for the lovely atmosphere and interactions we get with guests.
We’re keen to make any wedding very personal to the couple, so we have come up with a unique way for guests to work with us to make your day really special - with memories to treasure! We will happily explain further upon enquiry.
We wear smart, black clothes. The gentlemen will wear DJs and bow ties.
We arrive and set up 30 minutes before we are due to start playing. If our PA system is required, we will need an additional 30 minutes.
Performance times vary depending on the booking; generally 2.5 hours playing for weddings (inc. ceremony), longer for private events. We tend to play for 45 - 1 hour with a short break before starting again.
Absolutely! However to protect our instruments we do ask for shade during sunny days, temperatures to be above 17 degrees (our fingers simply don’t function well in cold weather…plus the instruments complain!). If it’s even a little drizzly we do need to be indoors due to the wooden instruments needing protection.
We have a huge playlist to choose from. We ask clients to select music for a ceremony. For all other parts of a wedding or event, clients may select up to 10 pieces. We get a good idea of the style of music needed and we then use our expertise to choose music that will match with it.
We really encourage guests to come and chat to us about requests. As we use tablets, we have every piece with us, so we can very often accommodate them!
If the client has a piece of music we don’t have in our collection we do have various options - we are happy to purchase one new string arrangement (if one is available) per client. Additional pieces will be charged per piece. Arrangements can possibly be made for a fee.
We have been described as the perfect accompaniment to a wedding, as well as setting the perfect tone for event, with our really varied repertoire. (We’re very often complimented on our communication too!)
Staffordshire Showground
Hakim Group
Toyota
Arriva Buses
Kenilworth Castle
Pirelli Stadium
Nottingham Arena
Old Trafford
Lichfield Cathedral
Wells Cathedral
Royal Albert Hall
Maida Vale
Wedding
Birthday Party
Private Event
Corporate Event
Hotel / Restaurant Event
Bar / Venue Event
Funeral / Memorial
Wedding Proposal
Recording Session
Charity Event
Christmas Party
New Year's Eve
Classical
Film / TV
Opera
Musical Theatre
1930s Music
1940s Music
1950s Music
1960s Music
1970s Music
1980s Music
1990s Music
2000s+ Music
Jazz
Christmas
Church Music
Easy Listening
Background Music
Pop
Acoustic
Covers
PAT tested
Lighting system included
Instrumental
100% acoustic (no power)
Public liability insurance
PA / sound system included