Hire A String Quartet String quartet for weddings, events and parties, delivering unforgettable music

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string quartet for 3 hours£750
string quartet 2 hours£700
string quartet 1 hour£600

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Welcome to Hire A String Quartet – Your Soundtrack to an Unforgettable Day

We’re not just performers; we’re your live soundtrack, setting the perfect tone for weddings, corporate events, proposals, private parties, and more. Whether you’re looking for elegant classics, modern hits, Bridgerton vibes, or Bollywood favourites, our string quartet hire service brings energy, style, and unforgettable moments to every performance.

Specialising in string quartet weddings, we create the perfect atmosphere for your ceremony, drinks reception, or wedding breakfast. Planning a business event? Our experienced musicians also provide string quartet corporate events and entertainment, offering sophisticated live music for product launches, awards nights, and networking receptions.

With musicians from top orchestras and global stages, we deliver world-class sound with heart—tailored to your unique celebration or corporate occasion.

Available across London and the UK, we're here to make your event extraordinary.
Let’s make music together—get a quote today.

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Location

Based in South East London

Will travel up to 70 miles
green circle = areas covered (up to 70 miles)
pink circle = free travel (up to 10 miles)
Please note that the circles shown on the map are calculated "as the crow flies". By road distances may vary, so please get in touch for an accurate quote.

Classical

Albinoni

Adagio

Bach

Double Violin Concerto

Badinerie Arioso

Air On The G String

Brandenburg No.3

Brandenburg No.6

Jesu Joy

Sheep May Safely Graze

Beethoven

Don Giovanni Excerpts

Fur Elise

Ode To Joy

Berlioz

Dance Of The Sylphs

Brahms

Minuet From Serenade No.1

Lullaby

Chopin

Polonaise Bb

Prelude In E Minor

Clarke

Trumpet Voluntary - Prince of Denmark

Corelli

Christmas concerto

Debussy

Clare De Lune

Arabesque No.1

Le Petit Negre

Delibes

Lakme

Dvorak

Serenade

Elgar

Chanson De Matin

Nimrod Frank, Enigma Variations

Salut D'Amour

Faure

Sicilienne

Frank

Panis Angelicus

Gluck

Dance Of The Blessed Spirits

Grieg

Gavotte

In the Hall of the Mountain King

Morning

Grinfleld

Valse, From Der Lebemann

Handel

Royal Fireworks

Water Music

Where E'er You Walk, Semele

Arrival of the Queen Of Sheba

Haydn

Serenade Cantabile

String quartet The Lark

Holst

O Vow To Thee My Country, From Jupiter, The Planets

Jenkins

Palladio Karl

Kreisler

Liebesleid

Midnight Bells

Schon Rosmarin

Caprice Viennois

Mouret

Rondeau - Theme From The Master Piece Theatre

Mozart

Divertimento in D major

Divertimento in Bb major

Divertimento F major

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Mozart

Ave Verum Corpus

Laudate Dominum

Rondo alla Turka

Massenet

Meditation from Thais

Offenbach

Galop

Pachelbel

Canon and Gigue

Puccini

Nessun Dorma

Rachmaninov

Vocalise

Ravel

Bolero

Rossini

Barber of Seville

Rimsky-Korsakov

Young prince Scherazade

Saint- Saens

The Swan

Satie

Gynopedie 3

Sartori

Con Te Partiro - Time To Say Goodbye

Schubert

Ave Maria Schubert

Strauss

Blue Danube Waltz

Emperor Waltz

On the Beautiful Danube

Radetsky march

Roses From The South

Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Viennese Blood

Tchaikovsky

Love Theme Romeo And Juliet

March From Nut Cracker

Nutcracker overture

October- Autumn song

Waltz From Sleeping Beauty

Waltz From Swan Lake

Verdi

Brindisi Verdi

La Traviata Excerpts

Sempre Libera - La Traviata

Vivaldi

Spring

Wagner

Wedding March

Pop Music

ABBA

Dancing Queen

Mamma Mia

Super Trouper

The Winner Takes It All

Adele

Easy On Me

Sky Fall

Make You Feel My Love

When we were young

Aerosmith

Don’t want to miss a thing baby

Al Green

Let's Stay Together

Alicia Keys

Empire State Of Mind

If I Ain't Got you

American Authors

Best Day Of My Life

Aqua

Barbie Girl

Ariana Grande

Rain On Me

Barry White

You Are My Everything

Beach Boys

California Dreamin’

God Only Knows

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Beatles, J. Lennon, P. McCartney and G. Harrison

All You Need Is Love

Blackbird

And I Love Her

Calico skies

Can't Buy Me Love

Norwegian Wood

Come Together

Eight Days A Week

Elanor Rigby

Get Back

Got To Get You Into My Life

Help

Here Comes The Sun

Here There And Everywhere

Hey Jude

I Feel Fine

I Want To Hold Your Hand

Imagine

Let It Be

Penny Lane

Something

Strawberry Fields

Till there was you

Yesterday

When I'm 64

Ben E King

Stand By Me

Beyonce

Crazy In Love

Halo

Billie Eilish

Lovely

Billy Joel

Uptown Girl

Bill Withers

Lean On Me

Billy Preston

You Are So Beautiful

Blue Oyster Cult

Don’t fear the reaper

Blur

The Universal

Bob Marley

Three Little Birds

Bon Jovi

Always

It's My Life

Booker

Green Onions

Bowie

Starman

Bruno Mars

Leave The Door Open

Marry You

Smokin Out Of The Window

Brian Crain

Butterfly Waltz

Bryan Adams

Everything I Do I Do It For You

Heaven

BTS

Dynamite

My Universal

Buckley

Hallelujah

Burt Bacharach

I Say A Little Prayer

I'll Never Fall In Love Again

The Calling

Wherever You Will Go

Candi Stanton

You got the love

The Carpenters

Yesterday Once More

We’ve Only Just Begun

Celeste

Stop This Flame

Christina Perri

A Thousand Years

Clean Bandit

Rather be

Cold Play

High Power

In My Place

My Universal

Paradise

Viva La Vida

The Cure

Just Like Heaven

Cyndi Lauper

Time After Time

Dan Smith

Pompeii

David Guetta

Without You

Depeche Mode

Somebody

Dove

There goes the Fear

Dua Lipa

Levitating

Dusty Springfield

I only want to be with you

The Eagles

Hotel California

Echo and the Bunnymen

The killing moon

Ed Sheeran

Bad Habits

Love In slow Motion

Perfect

Shivers

Sing

Thinking Out Loud

Eileen Ivers

Bygone Days

Elbow

Golden Slumbers

Grounds for divorce

One Day Like This

Ellie Goulding

Lights

Love Me Like You Do

Elton John

Your Song

Elvis

Can't Help Falling In Love

Elvis Costello

She

Embrace

Fireworks

Englebert Humperdink

The Last Waltz

Enya

Only Time

Eric Clapton

Wonderful Tonight

Frankie Valli

Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You

Gloria Gaynor

I Will Survive

Goo Goo Dolls

Iris

Guns n Roses

Sweet Child O'Mine

Happy Mondays

Kinky Afro

Harry Styles

Sign Of Times

As It Was

Israel Kam

Somewhere Over The Rainbow Hawaiian

Jeff Lynne, Petty

Free Fallin'

Mr Blue Sky

Joe Cocker

You Are So Beautiful

John Denver

Annie's Song

John Legend

All Of Me

Justin Bieber

Hold On

Mistletoe

Jungle

Keep moving

Kathryn Jenkins

Con Te Partiro - Time To Say Goodbye

Keane

Somewhere only we know

Killers

All These Things That I’ve done

Mr Brightside

The Kinks

Waterloo Sunset

Kylie Minogue

Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Lady Gaga

Rain On Me

Led Zeppelin

Kashmir

Stairway To Heaven

Lionel Richie

Endless Love

Hello

Luke Graham

Happy For you

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Sweet Home Alabama

Madonna

Like A Prayer

Material Girl

Mary J Blige

As

Michael Jackson and Jackson 5

Ben

Blame It On The Boogie

Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson

Nothing Breaks Like A Heart

Wrecking Ball

Mumford and Sons

I Will Wait

Neil Diamond

Sweet Caroline

Nigri, Rodrigo

Deja Vu

Nirvana

Come As You Are

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Oasis

Don't Look Back In Anger

Masterplan

Roll With It

Whatever

Wonderwall

Passenger

Let her go

Peter Gabriel

In Your Eyes

Pharrell Williams

Happy

Havana

Phil Collins, Genesis

A Groovy Kind Of Love

The Pogues

Fairytale Of New York

Rhianna

Rude Boy

We Found Love

Rick Astley

Never Gonna Give You Up

Righteous Brothers

Unchained Melody

Robbie Williams

Angels

Let Me Entertain You

Roy Orbison

Pretty Woman

Sam Smith

Unholy

Sigur Ros

Hoppipolla

Simon and Garfunkel

Please Mrs Robinson

The Smiths

The Boy With The Thorn In His side

Girl Friend in a Coma

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

This Charming Man

Snow Patrol

Chasing cars

Spice Girls

2 Become 1

Stop

Wannabe

Stevie Wonder

As

For Once In My Life

I Just Called To Say I Love You

I wish

Isn’t she lovely

Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours

Sir Duke

Superstition

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

Sting

Fields Of Gold

The Stranglers

Golden brown

Taylor Swift

Anti Hero

Cruel Summer

Love Story

Shake It Off

Wildest Dreams

Willow

You Belong With Me

Stone Roses

I Am The Resurrection

Take That

Greatest Day

How Deep Is Your Love

A Million Love Songs

Rule The world

Talking Heads

Psyco killer

Temptations

My Girl

Trad. And Miscellaneous

Amazing Grace

Danny Boy

I’m forever blowing bubbles

La Bamba

Queen

Barcelona

Bohemian Rhapsody

Crazy little thing called love

Don't Stop Me Now

I want to break free

The Show Must Go On

We Are The Champions

Somebody To Love

You're My Best Friend

It’s a Kind Of Magic

U2

Beautiful Day

With Or Without You

Van Morrison

Brown Eyed Girl

Have I told You Lately

The Verve

Bitter Sweet Symphony

Whitney Houston

I Will Always Love You

Saving All My Love For you

Willie Nelson

Bring Me Sunshine

Will Young

Ever Green

Disney and Pixar

You've Got A Friend In Me - Toy story

Bare Necessities, Jungle book

Beauty And The Beast

Some Day My Prince Will Come, Beauty and The Beast

Let It Go – Frozen

Love Is An Open Door - Frozen

When I Am Older - Frozen 2

Into The Unknown - Frozen 2

The Next Right Thing - Frozen 2

When You Wish Upon A Star - Pinocchio

A Whole New World – Aladdin

Can you Feel The Love Tonight – Lion King

Hakuna Mata – Lion King

How Far I’ll Go – Mona

Film and TV

Bridgerton

Theme to Bridgerton

Bad Guy

Girl Like You

In My Blood

Thank U, Next

Across The Stars – Star Wars

As Time Goes By, Casablanca

The Avengers

Band Of Brothers Theme

Cavatina, Dear Hunter

Cinema Paradiso

Studio Ghibli

Always With Me - Spirited Away

The Merry Go Round Of Life - Howls Moving Castle

One Summer's Day - Spirited Away

Summer - Kiki's Delivery Service

Princess Mononoke

James Bond

Diamonds are forever

Goldfinger

James Bond Theme

Nobody Does It Better – The Spy Who Loved Me

On Her Majesty's Secret Service, James Bond

Sky Fall

We Have All The Time In The World, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

You Only Live Twice

Everybody's Free to feel Good from Romeo and Juliet

Fawlty Towers

Ghost Busters

The God Father

The Good The Bad And The Ugly

How To Train Your Dragon

The Incredibles

Indiana Jones

Jeeves And Wooster Theme

Knight Rider

Lord Of The Rings

Love Story Theme

Match Of The Day Tv Theme

Moon River - breakfast at Tiffany’s”, by Henry Mancini

My Heart Will Go On, Tita

Now We Are Free - Gladiator

Pirates Of The Caribbean

Por Una Cabeza, from Scent of a Woman

Psycho

Pure Imagination - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Remembrances From Schindler's List

Singin' In The Rain

Somewhere over the rainbow, wizard of Oz

Sweet Home Alabama

Tonight, Westside Story

Unchained Melody - Ghost

Walk About

Musicals

All I Ask Of You, Phantom of the Opera, by Lloyd Webber

Anything Goes, by Cole porter

Cabaret, by Masteroff

Come What May - Moulin Rouge

I Will Always Love You - Bodyguard, by Whitney Houston

Let's Do It, by Cole porter

Love Changes Everything, aspects of love, by Lloyd Webber

The Man I love by Gershwin

Singin' In The Rain

Someone To Watch Over Me, by Gershwin

Somewhere over the rainbow, wizard of Oz by Judy garland

To Life, Fiddler on the Roof, by Bock

Tonight, Westside Story, by Bernstein

With One Look, Sunset Boulevard, by Lloyd Webber

JAZZ AND AMERICAN SONG BOOK

Alexander's ragtime band- Joplin

Anything Goes

As Time Goes By

At Last

Autumn Leaves, Kosma

Beyond The Sea

Blue Moon

The Entertainer, Joplin

Fly Me To The Moon

Gershwin Medley, Gershwin

Getting Sentimental Over You

The Girl From Ipanema

The Impossible Dream

In The Mood

It Ain't Necessarily So, Ira Gershwin

Jeeves And Wooster

Jethro Tull style bouree, by Jethro Tull

Leaning On A Lamppost

Let's Do It

Let’s Face The Music And Dance

Love And Marriage

Mack The Knife

Makin' Whoope

“The Man I love, Gershwin

Misty

Moonlight In Vermont

Mr Bojangles

My Way

New York, New York

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

Ragtime Dance, by Joplin

Singin' In The Rain

Someone To Watch Over Me, Gershwin

Summertime, Gershwin

Sway, Dean martin

Take Five

That's Amore

Tico Tico

Volare

The Way You Look Tonight

What A Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong

When I Fall In Love, Jenkins

CHRISTMAS

All I Want For Christmas Is You

The Christmas Song

Happy Xmas War Is Over

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Holly And The Ivy

Jingle bell salsa

Jingle Bells

Last Christmas

Let It Snow

O Holy Night

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Santa Baby

Santa Clause Is Coming To Town

Thank God It's Christmas - Queen

Walking In The Air - Blake

White Christmas - by Berlin

TANGO AND LATIN

El Choclo Tango- Villodo

Jealousy Tango - Gade

La paloma Tango

Por Una Cabeza, scent of a woman - Garde

Jewish

Chanukah

Gitele

Havah Nagilah

Ose Shalom

A Yiddische Momma

Chinese/ Taiwanese Trad./Pop

Bang Chhun Hong – Feeling The Wind of Spring

Jamine Flower

Boat Song of Love

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

We require is 4 armless chairs. We can play outside but require full cover and no rain at all. We often play outside events and weddings.


Do you provide sound and lighting equipment?

We do not require sound or lighting equipment.


What information do you require about a venue?

Just the address!


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

No.


What it timings or date of the event change?

If your event date or timings need to change, we kindly ask for at least 28 days’ notice. That said, we understand that plans can shift—especially with timings—so if changes occur within that period, please contact us as soon as possible, and we’ll do our best to accommodate and help your day run smoothly.


Are the any hidden costs?

Rest assured, there are no hidden fees. Travel expenses are already included in the quote we've provided. We are not currently VAT registered, so the price you see is the final price you pay.


Do you have Public Liability Insurance?

Fully Insured for Your Peace of Mind
Yes, we are fully covered with Public Liability Insurance. Each of our musicians is a member of either the Musicians’ Union or the Independent Society of Musicians and holds individual public liability cover of up to £10 Million.
In addition, the quartet as a whole is insured through the Independent Society of Musicians, ensuring full protection for your event. We can provide insurance certificates at your request.

Frequently Asked Questions

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

The most high profile gig we have ever played was as a support act at Wembley Arena. It was a sell out and such a buzz!


Which artists have you been most influenced by, who is your favourite artist and what is the greatest song of all time?

Our repertoire is immense and covers all genres. We are equally at home playing Bach as we at performing Bridgerton and Pop. We carry our entire repertoire with us of over 600 songs and pieces as we work of tablets.


What's your previous experience and how did you start gigging?

We started performing as a string quartet in 2008.


What's your favourite type of event to play at?

We love playing at any event where beautiful live string music enhances the experience

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

Our typical setup is a string quartet, and our sets are usually 50 minutes per hour.


Are you happy to perform outside?

We’re delighted to perform outside, weather permitting, with full cover and no rain.


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

We can help you choose your set list, or you can provide your own, with different styles and genres for different parts of your event. We can also make arrangements of pieces for you if we do not have them in our repertoire.


How do previous clients most commonly describe your performances?

We’re frequently described by clients as professional, versatile, and exceptional musicians.


What does Hire A String Quartet wear?

Stylish and Event-Ready
At Hire A String Quartet, our musicians typically wear smart all-black attire for a sleek and elegant look. However, we’re happy to match your event’s colour scheme or go all-out with tuxedos and formal evening wear if you’d prefer a more traditional or glamorous style. Just let us know what suits your occasion best!


Can I select a specific genre of music?

Yes, you can choose specific pieces of music!
We perform using tablets, which means we can bring over 500 pieces with us wherever we go. If there's a song you love that's not already in our repertoire, we can create a custom arrangement just for you. Whether it's a classical favorite or a modern hit, we’re happy to help make your event truly personal

Recent Clients

Hire A String Quartet has performed for these clients:

Boots

Institute of Chartered Accountants

Wembley Arena

Sainsbury's

Saga Cruises

Metro Bank

Lord Mayor of London

Queens Jubilee

Venues

Hire A String Quartet has performed at these venues:

Mansion House

Goldsmiths' Hall - City of London

Claridge's

Guildhall - City of London

St. Pancras Hotel - London

Saga Cruises

Hop Farm - Kent

The Connaught - London

Mandarin Oriental - High Street Kensington

More Info

Events types:

Wedding

Birthday Party

Private Event

Corporate Event

Hotel / Restaurant Event

Bar / Venue Event

Funeral / Memorial

Wedding Proposal

Concert

Religious Event

Recording Session

Cruise

Virtual Event

Charity Event

Theatre Show

Burns Night

Christmas Party

New Year's Eve

Genres:

Classical

Film / TV

Opera

Musical Theatre

Medieval / Early Music

1920s Music

1930s Music

1940s Music

1950s Music

1960s Music

1970s Music

1980s Music

1990s Music

2000s+ Music

Jazz

Blues

Cabaret

Dixieland / Ragtime

Gypsy Jazz

Latin Jazz

Swing

Country

Pop

Acoustic

Covers

Disco

Motown

R&B

Soul

Vintage

Rock

Britpop

Classic Rock

Rock 'n' Roll

Features:

PAT tested

Instrumental

Public liability insurance

Will travel internationally

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