| Solo Violin Performance |
| Up to 3 hours: £490 |
| From 4 to 6 hours: £720 |
Based in Thurso, Caithness
= areas covered (up to 225 miles)
= free travel (up to 45 miles)
ABBA – I Have A Dream / Lay All Your Love On Me / Mamma Mia! / I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do / Super Trouper / Dancing Queen / Chiquitita / Fernando / Thank You For The Music
ADELE – Make You Feel My Love / Skyfall
AEROSMITH – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
ALEX WARREN – Ordinary / Carry You Home
AMY WINEHOUSE – Back To Black / Valerie
ANDREA BOCELLI – Vivo Per Lei
ANDY WILLIAMS – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You / Love Story / Moon River / Speak Softly Love / The Impossible Dream
ANNIE LENNOX – The Miracle Of Love
ARIANA GRANDE – Hampstead / One Last Time
BTS – Butter / Dynamite / On
BACKSTREET BOYS – As Long As You Love Me / I Want It That Way
BEATLES – Here Comes The Sun / Norwegian Wood / Blackbird / Yesterday / Hey Jude / Let It Be / While My Guitar Gently Weeps / Now and Then
BENSON BOONE – Beautiful Things / In The Stars
BETHEL MUSIC – Goodness Of God
BETTE MIDLER – The Rose (Some Say Love)
BILLIE EILISH – Ocean Eyes
BILLY JOEL – Just The Way You Are
BOYZONE – Everyday I Love You / Father & Son
BRUNO MARS – Marry You
CALUM SCOTT – You Are The Reason
CAMILA CABELLO & SHAWN MENDES – Senorita
CARLY SIMON – Nobody Does It Better
CELINE DION – My Heart Will Go On / Taking Chances
CHRIS DE BURGH – Lady In Red
CHRIS ISAAK – Wicked Game
CHRISTINA PERRI – A Thousand Years
COLDPLAY – Viva La Vida (both slow and regular versions available) / A Sky Full Of Stars / Clocks / The Scientist
The CORRS – Runaway / All The Love In The World
The CRANBERRIES – Dreams / Zombie
CROWDED HOUSE – Don’t Dream It’s Over
CRUSH – Beautiful
CYNDI LAUPER – Time After Time
DISNEY – A Whole New World / So This Is Love / Beauty & The Beast / Once Upon A Dream / I See The Light / When You Wish Upon A Star
EAGLES – Take It Easy
ED SHEERAN – Thinking Out Loud / Perfect / The Joker And The Queen / Photograph / Shivers
EINAUDI – Experience
ELLIE GOULDING – How Long Will I Love You / Love Me Like You Do (slow version)
ELTON JOHN – Your Song / Can You Feel The Love Tonight?
ELVIS COSTELLO – She
ELVIS PRESLEY – Can’t Help Falling In Love / Love Me Tender / The Wonder Of You
ENYA – Caribbean Blue / Only Time / May It Be
ETTA JAMES – At Last
EURYTHMICS – The Miracle Of Love / Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
EVA CASSIDY – Over The Rainbow
FLEETWOOD MAC – Songbird
FRANKIE VALLI – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
The GREATEST SHOWMAN – A Million Dreams / Rewrite The Stars / Never Enough
HANS ZIMMER – Time / Interstellar
HENRY MANCINI – A Time For Us
HUNTRIX – Golden
IMAGINE DRAGONS – Believer
JOHN LEGEND – All Of Me
JON BON JOVI – Always
JUNG KOOK – Seven (Days a Week) / Still With You
KATSEYE – Gabriela
KEANE – Somewhere Only We Know
LADY GAGA – Abracadabra
LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER – Shallow / Always Remember Us This Way
LADY GAGA & BRUNO MARS – Die With A Smile
LANA DEL REY – Young And Beautiful / Video Games
LIONEL RITCHIE – Stuck On You
LITTLE MIX – Secret Love Song
LOU REED – Perfect Day
LUIS FONSI – Despacito
LUKE COMBS – Beautiful Crazy
LUMINEERS – Ho Hey!
MADONNA – Crazy For You
MAMAS & THE PAPAS – California Dreamin’
METALLICA – Nothing Else Matters
MICHAEL BUBLĖ – Feeling Good / Home / Sway
MICHAEL JACKSON – Billie Jean / Earth Song / Heal The World / Man In The Mirror / Smooth Criminal / Thriller / We Are The World / You Are Not Alone
NANA BANANA - Przyjażń czy Kochanie
NATALIE COLE – This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)
NAT KING COLE – When I Fall In Love / Let There Be Love
NIALL HORAN – Slow Hands
NINA SIMONE – I Put A Spell On You
OASIS – Don’t Look Back in Anger / Stop Crying Your Heart Out
ONE DIRECTION – Story Of My Life (both slow and regular versions available)
PEDRO VARGAS – Besame Mucho
PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy
PLAIN WHITE T’s – Hey There Delilah
The POGUES – Fairytale of New York
PROCLAIMERS – Sunshine On Leith
QUEEN – Love Of My Life / The Show Must Go On
RADIOHEAD – Creep
RAYE – Where Is My Husband!
RIHANNA – Diamonds / We Fell In Love (In A Hopeless Place) {Both slow versions}
ROBBIE WILLIAMS – Angels / She’s The One
ROBERTA FLACK – Killing Me Softly
ROD STEWART – Sailing
ROLLING STONES – Paint It Black
ROY ORBISON – Pretty Woman
RUELLE – I Get To Love You
RUTH B – Dandelions
RYANN DARLING – I Choose You
SABRINA CARPENTER – Please, Please, Please / Espresso
SANTA ESMERALDA – You’re My Everything
SAVAGE GARDEN – Truly, Madly, Deeply
SHAKIRA – Objection (Tango)
SHANIA TWAIN – You’re Still The One
SIA – Unstoppable / Titanium
SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER – Kiss Me
SLEEPING AT LAST – Turning Page
SNOW PATROL – Chasing Cars
STEPHEN SANCHEZ – Until I Found You
STING – Fields Of Gold
SYDNEY ROSE – Turning Page
TAYLOR SWIFT – Enchanted / Love Story / Invisible String / Wildest Dreams / Fortnight / Blank Space / You Belong With Me / Lover / Daylight / Crazier / The Fate of Ophelia / Opalite
TEDDY SWIMS – Lose Control
TINA TURNER – Simply The Best (both slow and regular versions available)
TONES AND I – Dance Monkey
TWENTY-ONE PILOTS – Heathens
WESTLIFE – Beautiful In White
YIRUMA – River Flows In You
Film music/TV series/musicals
The ADDAMS FAMILY – Main theme
ANASTASIA – Once Upon A December
BRAVE – Touch The Sky
BRAVEHEART – For The Love Of A Princess
BRIDGERTON – Main Theme / OMI ‘Cheerleader’ / Billy Eilish ‘Bad Guy’ / SIA ‘Cheap Thrills’ / Pitbull ‘Give Me Everything’ / Imagine Dragons ‘Thunder’ / Coldplay ‘Yellow’ / Taylor Swift ‘You Belong With Me’
CORPSE BRIDE – Main theme / Victor’s Song / Victor’s Piano Solo
FINAL FANTASY – Main theme (FF1) / Love Will Grow (FF2) / Opening theme (FF7) / Answers (FF14)
GAME OF THRONES – Main theme
GHOSTBUSTERS – Main theme
GOBLIN OST – Beautiful
The GODFATHER – Title music
GREASE – Hopelessly Devoted To You / You’re The One That I Want
HARRY POTTER – Hedwig’s Theme / Harry’s Wondrous World
The HOBBIT – Misty Mountains
HOCUS POCUS – Come, Little Children
HOME ALONE – Somewhere in My Memory
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – Test Flight
INCEPTION – Time (Hans Zimmer)
JURASSIC PARK – Title music
KUNG FU PANDA – Oogway Ascends
The LAST OF THE MOHICANS – The Gael (theme tune)
The LEGEND OF ZELDA – Medley / Ocarina of Time
LES MISERABLES – I Dreamed A Dream
LORD OF THE RINGS – May It Be / In Dreams / Concerning Hobbits / Evenstar
The MISSION – Gabriel’s Oboe (Enio Morricone)
MONSTER MASH: THE MOVIE – Monster Mash Song
The MYTH – Endless Love
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – New York, New York!
The NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS – Jack’s Lament / Sally’s Song / This is Halloween
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA – The Phantom of the Opera / All I Ask Of You / Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – He’s A Pirate
PRIDE & PREJUDICE – Music from the 1995 series and the 2005 movie
ROMEO & JULIET (1968 film) – A Time For Us (Henry Mancini)
STAR WARS – Main theme / Across The Stars / Imperial March / May The Force Be With You
TOP GUN – Main anthem (slow and regular versions available)
WEDNESDAY – Paint It Black / Zombie
WEST SIDE STORY – Tonight
A SELECTION OF CLASSICAL PIECES UPON REQUEST
TRADITIONAL TUNES UPON REQUEST
CHRISTMAS TRACKS (POP/TRADITIONAL/HYMNS) UPON REQUEST
1 power socket (unless playing outdoors with the smaller battery-powered amp), sufficient space to freely play a bowed instrument, 1 parking space, access to toilet and fresh drinking water.
YES - all sound equipment.
How many guests are expected for the event, where the power sockets are situated, what the parking is like, what the venue temperature is usually (e.g. a cold church or hall, a warm room with fire, a humid botanical gardens, etc.)
I can provide a YouTube playlist between sets.
The happiest booking would have to have been an engagement outside a Scottish castle for an American couple. The most famous venue I've played at would be Ardross Church, which features in the TV reality series 'Traitors'. The most unusual venue I've played at was a botanical gardens, inside the glasshouse. The best venue I've played at was Achnagairn Castle Estate in the Scottish Highlands - in the vaulted ballroom!
World-class violinists Itzhak Perlman and Hilary Hahn have been inspirational to me as I grew up playing the violin.
I love ABBA, The Beatles, Queen, Fleetwood Mac. I also really like Einaudi's piano music and Classical works by Beethoven.
The greatest song of all time is.... unknown!
I have decades of experience in violin performance and violin teaching, and I have some performance experience on the piano too. I was a member of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra (SFO) in the early 2000s, I was a member of a ceilidh trio band called Northern Lights (we released our own CD entitled 'The Sailor's Wife'), I was also a member of a fiddle group called The North Highland Fiddlers, and I've performed on DVD and on live radio.
I decided to become a wedding violinist in Jan/Feb 2024.
Weddings and engagements are my favourite.
15 minutes to set up, and 15 minutes to sound check.
I usually perform from anywhere between 1 & 3 hours, but I have also played a full wedding day for up to 6 hours!
Yes - provided that I can access shelter for my violin and my equipment should it be wet/foggy/snowy.
I have an extensive set list that clients can choose from. Additional requests are also possible - and the first 3 requests are completely free!
"Absolutely brilliant", "Fantastic", "So talented", "Like listening to a CD!"
Yes, I most certainly can!
Haven Coffee Shop, Thurso
Private couples
Highland Hospice, Thurso
Tesco, Wick & Thurso
Local care homes, Wick & Thurso
Aberdeen Concert Hall, Aberdeen
Achnagairn Castle Estate, Scottish Highlands
Ardross Ark Church, by Alness
Ardross Community Hall, by Alness
Bayview House Care Home, Thurso
Bearnock Lodge, by Loch Ness
Drumossie Hotel, Inverness
Dunrobin Castle, Golspie
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Highland Hospice, Thurso
Inverness Botanic Gardens
Kingsmills Hotel, Inverness
Mackays Hotel, Wick
Pentland Hotel, Thurso
Pentland View Care Home, Thurso
SECC, Glasgow
Seaview Care Home, Wick
Stemster House, Caithness
Tesco Wick
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
York Barbican, York
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
Classical
Film / TV
Musical Theatre
Medieval / Early Music
1920s Music
1930s Music
1940s Music
1950s Music
1960s Music
1970s Music
1980s Music
1990s Music
2000s+ Music
Folk
Ceilidh
Traditional Irish Folk
Traditional Scottish Folk
Blues
Swing
Christmas
Military
Church Music
Easy Listening
Background Music
Originals
Country
Pop
Acoustic
Covers
Disco
Vintage
Classic Rock
PAT tested
Instrumental
Can provide battery amplifier
Public liability insurance
DJ / background music options
Will travel internationally
Uses backing tracks