Elysium Cello Duo Be surprised at what’s possible with the wonderful sound of two cellos!

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The guide prices below are for events within 20 miles of Manchester, Greater Manchester. Outside this area extra travel expenses will apply. Please get in touch for an accurate quote.
1 hour: £521
2 hours: £614
3 hours: £666
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About / Biography

The Elysium Cello Duo are classically trained musicians who have travelled the world with their cellos. Between them they have clocked up an impressive repertoire of experience, performing professionally with orchestras, theaters and bands, at festivals around the globe, on television and radio, and in concert as soloists.

As well as playing the music for hundreds of weddings and corporate events, the duo have worked with stars such as Emeli Sande, Take That, Snow Patrol, Elbow, I Am Kloot and Eliza Carthy, making regular TV appearances on the likes of Top of the Pops, Jools Holland, The X Factor and the Michael Parkinson Show. Listen closely, and you will hear the duo playing on Elbow's album, 'Build A Rocket Boys!'.

The Elysium Cello Duo aims to provide exactly the right atmosphere for your special event, and are more than happy to arrange 'your song' if discussed in advance. Two ladies with gorgeous instruments playing rich, sonorous music. The Elysium Cello Duo not only sound the part but look the part: where possible they will dress according to the colour scheme of your event.

Their broad repertoire includes classical, jazz, pop, children's, Christmas, gypsy and folk.

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AVERAGE RATING

10 / 101

Location

Based in Manchester, Greater Manchester

Will travel up to 500 miles
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Some of our favourites

Arioso –J.S. Bach

Autumn Leaves -Kosma

Barbara Allen –trad.

Bare Necessities- Gilkyson

Can-Can –Offenbach

Chanson d'Amour -Shanklin & Hart

Drunken Sailor- Trad.

Hungarian Dance -Brahms

Por Una Cabeza –Gardel

Que Sera -Livingston/Evans

Sailor's Hornpipe -trad.

She -Aznavour/Kretzner

Summertime –Gershwin

The Swan -Saint-Saens

Waves of the Danube –Ivanovic

William Tell Overture –Rossini

CLASSICAL/BAROQUE

Composers include Brahms, Strauss, Haydn, Handel,

Breval, W.A. Mozart, Chopin,

Mozart, Bach, Hook, Schumann, Dotzauer,

Guignon, Pleyel, Beethoven, Schubert,

Bartok, Kodaly, Couperin, Boismortier, Telemann,

Purcell, Stravinsky, many

more.

POPULAR CLASSICAL PIECES

Air (‘on a G string’) – Bach

Air (from the Water Music) – Handel

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba – Handel

Autumn – Vivaldi

Bach – Double Concerto

Canon in D –Pachelbel

Celeste Aida – Verdi

Clair de Lune - Debussy

Fur Elise – Beethoven

Greensleeves

Hornpipe (from the Water Music) – Handel

Hungarian Dance number 5 - Brahms

I Wanna Be Like You – Sherman

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg

Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring – J.S. Bach

La Rejouissance – Handel

Largo from “winter” (Four Seasons) – Vivaldi

Marche Militaire – Schubert

Minuet from “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” –Mozart

Minuet from “Music for the Royal Fireworks” – Handel

Nimrod (adagio) – Elgar

Non Piu Andrai (from “Mariiage of Figaro) - Mozart

Ode to Joy from “Symphony No. 9”– Beethoven

Plovtsian Dance – Borodin

Sheep May Safely Graze – J.S. Bach

Spring (Four Seasons) – Vivaldi

Spring 1 Recomposed by Max Richter

Swan Lake – Tchaikovsky

The Silver Swan – Orlando Gibbons

To a Wild Rose - MacDowell

Trumpet Voluntary –Clark

Voi Che Sapete - Mozart

Wedding March –Wagner

TRADITIONAL/FOLK

Mainly British and Irish & Eastern European

folk tunes, including Arkansas

Traveller, Dark Eyes, Greensleeves, Harvest Home,

It was a Lover and his Lass,

Land of my Fathers, Londonderry Air (=Danny Boy),

Planxty Irwin, Star of the

County Down, Wedding of William and Mairi.

Also some Bollywood.

POP/FILM/DISNEY

‘s Wonderful – Gershwin

Addams Family theme

Adventure of a Lifetime – Coldplay

Ain’t Nobody – Chakra Khan

Aladdin – A Whole New World

All Along the Watchtower– Bob Dylan

All I Have To Do Is Dream – Everley Brothers

All of Me – John Legend

All Through the Nigh _trad. Welsh melody

Always A Woman to Me – Billy Joel

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Monty Python

Always On My Mind - Elvis

Amazing Grace

American Pie – Don McLean

Amor I Love You – Marissa Monte

Amor I Love You – Marissa Monte

Angels – Robbie WIlliams

At Last (Etta James)

Baby It’s Cold Outside – Loesser

Bad Guy – Billie Eilish

Barnacle Bill

Basin Street Blues

Beautiful Day – U2

Beauty and the Beast Theme – Disney

Believer – Imagine Dragons

Besame Mucho - Velazquez

Best Day of My Life – American Authors

Better Place – Rachel Platten

Better Place – Rachel Platten

Bittersweet Symphony – Verve

Blame it on the Boogie – Michael Jackson

Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan

Blue Suede Shoes – Elvis Presley

Bridge Over Troubled Water – Paul Simon

Bring Him Home – Les Miserables

Bring Me Sunshine

British National Anthem – jazz version

Budapest – George Ezra

Can You Feel the Love Tonight? – Lion king (Elton John)

Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles

Can’t Help (Lovin’ Dat Man)

Careless Whisper – George Michael/Andrew Ridgeley

Cha-cha

Chim Chim Cher-ee (from Mary Poppins)

Chitty chitty bang bang

Clair de Lune

Clocks – Coldplay

Close to you – Carpenters/Bacharach

Come Fly With Me

Computer game themes: Tetris, Mario Brothers, Halo4

Consider Yourself (from Oliver!)

Crazy In Love – Beyoncé

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

Dark Eyes

Deborah’s Theme (from Once upon a time in America) – Ennio Morricone

Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend

Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen

Don’t You Worry About a Thing –Stevie Wonder

Down By the Sally Gardens

Downtown – Tony Hatch

East Enders theme

Ebony & Ivory – Stevie Wonder/ Paul McCartney

Edelweiss

Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables – Les Miserables

Endless Love – Lionel Richie

English Country Garden floral medley

Every Breath You Take

Everybody Wants To Be A c¬¬at

Faith – George Michael

Falling In Love Again – Marlene Dietrich (F. Hollander)

Fawlty Towers

Fix You - COldplay

Flintstones theme

Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty

From This Moment – Shania Twain

Game of Thrones Theme

Get Lucky – Daft Punk

Get me to the church on Time

Ghost busters theme tune

Glenlogie (Scottish trad.)

God Only Knows – Beach Boys

Great Escape theme

Greatest Day – Take That

Groovy Kind of Love – Toni Wine

Grounds For Divorce – Elbow

Habanera

Halelujah – Leonard Cohen

Halo – Beyonce

Happy – Pharell Williams

Happy Birthday

Harvest Home

Havana – Cabello

Have I Told You Lately? – Van Morrison

Here Comes the Sun – Beatles

Hernando’s Hideaway – Adler/Ross

Hoppipola – Sigur Ros

How Deep Is Your Love? - BeeGees

How Long Will I Love You? (E. Goulding version)

Hushaby Mountain

I Have A Dream – ABBA

I Just Called To Say I Love You – Stevie Wonder

I Say a Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin)

I Will Always Love You – Dolly Parton/Whitney Houston

I Will Survive – Fekaris/Perren

I Will Wait – Mumford & Sons

I’m Yours – Jason Mraz

In the Flesh – Pink Floyd

Isn’t She Lovely? (Stevie Wonder)

It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it ain’t got that swing)

It Must Be Love (Madness)

James Bond theme

Karma Chameleon – Boy George

Kiss From A Rose – Seal

Kissing You – Desree (Romeo & Juliet)

Knocking on Heaven’s Door– Bob Dylan

L-O-V-E – Nat King Cole

La Vie en Rose

La Vie En Rose – Louiguy

Last of the Summer Wine theme

Let it Go (from Frozen)

Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) – Cole Porter

Levitating – Dua Lipa

Life On Mars – Bowie

Livin’ On A Prayer – Bon Jovi

Love is A Verb – John Mayer

Love Is All Around – Love Actually/Reg Presley

Love On Top – Beyoncé

Love Story – theme – Francis Lai

Lucky – Radiohead

Maestro – Hans Zimmer (from “The Holiday”)

Mairi’s Wedding

Make You Feel My Love – Adele

Mamma Mia!

Marry You – Bruno Mars

Mary Poppins Medley of Songs – Disney

Memory – from Cats

Mexican Hat Dance

Mia and Sebastian’s theme (from La La Land) - Hurwitz

Million Dreams , A – The Greatest Showman

Miss Marple theme

Mission Impossible theme

Mister Sandman

Moon River

Moon River – Mercer/Mancini

Mull of Kintyre – McCartney/Laine

Muppet Show theme

My Baby Just Cares for Me – Kahn/Donaldson

My Favourite Things – from The Sounds of Music

My Heart Will Go On (from film Titanic)

My Lighthouse – REND collective

Nellie the Elephant

Night on a Bald Mountain – Mussorgsky

Nothing Else Matters – Metallica

No Time to Die – Billie Eilish

No Woman, No Cry – Bob Marley/Ford

Now We Are Free – theme from Gladiator

Oblivion - Piazzola

Oblivion – Astor Piazzola

Once Upon A Dream - Sleeping Beauty

One Day Like This - elbow

Oompah Loompah song

Our Last Summer – ABBA

Paint It Black – Rolling Stones

Palladio

Paradise – Coldplay

Penny Lane – The Beatles

Perfect – Ed Sheeran

Phantom of the Opera theme tune

Pink Panther theme

Pizzicato Polka

Puttin’ On the Ritz

Rather Be – Clean Bandit

Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx

River Deep, Mountain High – Tina Turner

River Flows in You - Yiruma

Roar – Katy Perry

Rock Around the Clock

Rolling in the Deep – Adele

Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush

Salut d’Amour

Schindler’s List theme

Secrets: one republic

Senorita – Camila Cabello

Shake it Off – Taylor Swift

Shallow - Gaga/Cooper

She – Aznavour

She Loves You - The Beatles

Shotgun – George Ezra

Simple Gifts

Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder

Sky Full Of Stars

Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay

Someone You Loved – Lewis Capaldi

Somewhere Only We Know – Keane

Somewhere over the Rainbow

Speak Softly Love (‘Godfather’ theme)

Stand By Your Man – Wynette/Sherrill

Star of the County Down – Van Morrison

Star wars themes

Stayin’Alive – The Bee Gees

Stop! (Spice Girls)

Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles

Summertime

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Sweet Child o’ Mine – Guns ‘n’ Roses

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand

Take My Breath Away - Berlin

Take the “A” Train

Tears In Heaven – Clapton

Teddybear’s Picnic

Temper Trap (Sweet Disposition) Ben Stevenson

Thank You For the Music – ABBA

Thanks for The Memory – Robin/Rainger

The Final Countdown

The Girl from Ipanema

The Liberty Bell

The Lonely Goatherd - Sound of Music

The Look Of Love – Dusty Springfield

The Times They Are A-Changing– Bob Dylan

The Way You Look Tonight – Fields/Kern

This is Me – Greatest Showman

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

Thousand Years, A

Thriller – Michael Jackson

Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper

Top Of the World – Carpenters

Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler

Up – Married life (Disney film)

Up Where We Belong (Love Lift Us)

Uptown Funk – Mars/Ronson

Valse a Mille Temps

Viva La Vida – Coldplay

Wallace and Grommit theme

We Found Love – Harris/Rhianna

Wedding March (we play both versions, by Wagner and Mendelssohn)

Wednesday Addams Plays the Cello

Wellerman, The – Nathan Evans

Whatever – Oasis

When A Man Loves A Woman – Lewis/Wright

When I’m 64 – Beatles

When you Wish Upon a Star - Pinocchio

Wildest Dreams – Taylor Swift

With or Without You – U2

Without You (“I can’t live, if living is without you...”) – Ham/Evans

Wonderwall – Oasis

Wouldn’t It Be Lovely? - from My Fair Lady

You Are the Best Thing – Ray Lamontagne

You are the Wind Beneath My Wings

You’ll Never Walk Alone –

You’re My best friend – Queen

You’ve Got A Friend In Me – Toy Story

Your Song – Elton John

BOLLYWOOD

Chand Sitare Phool Aur Khushboo

Chhukar Mere Manko

Ek ladki Ko Dekha

Kabhii Tumhe

Kal Ho Naa Ho

Kannazhaga

Kaun Tujhe

Khabi Kushi Khabie Gham

Pal from jalebi

Raabta

Sun Sathiya

Tum Hi Ho

Tumko Hi Chahenge Hum

We can play HYMNS for a church service,

and any CHRISTMAS SONGS.

Note:

We arrange a lot of our own music.

If there is a specific piece of music you would

like us to play that’s not already on the list we’d love

to hear from you.

Usually these can be added at no extra cost.

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

Two chairs without arms; light refreshment for bookings over 2 hours; power
socket for larger bookings that require amplification.


Do you provide sound and lighting equipment?

We provide a small amp for booking with large groups.


What information do you require about a venue?

We need to know whether there are parking spaces available.


Can you provide a Spotify/DJ service before and between your sets?

This is not something we provide.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best gig you've ever done and the best venue you've ever played at?

We have performed at spectacular venues over the years including the Royal Albert Hall, Glastonbury Main Stage , arenas and TV studios.

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

We aim to arrive an hour beforehand, but out set up time could be as quick as 15 minutes.


Are you happy to perform outside?

Yes of course, as long as there is protection from all the elements, including direct sunlight. A backup plan MUST be in place if we are to play outside, where shelter is provided from all the elements.


Do the clients have a say in what you play or is it a set repertoire list only?

We aim to accommodate all song requests. A small charge may be applied if we need to arrange or buy the music especially, but always with the client's prior consent.


How do previous clients most commonly describe your performances?

Previous customers have described us as the perfect addition to any event, providing highly professional entertainment with an elegant flair.

Recent Clients

Elysium Cello Duo has performed for these clients:

Too many to name

Venues

Elysium Cello Duo has performed at these venues:

So many.... The Ritz, Savoy, Glastonbury, Jools Holland, recording with elbow, Snow Patrol, Emeli Sande, Richard Hawley, Outstandingly beautiful wedding venues in the UK...

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