Scottish Violinist Scotland's most northerly professional solo wedding violinist!

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The guide prices below are for events within 45 miles of Thurso, Caithness. Outside this area extra travel expenses will apply. Please get in touch for an accurate quote.
Solo Violin Performance
Up to 3 hours: £490
From 4 to 6 hours: £720
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About / Biography

  • Qualified to DipABRSM ARSM level with the Royal Schools of Music
  • Decades of experience as a performing violinist & teacher
  • Fully insured member of the Independent Society of Musicians (MISM)
  • Specialising in violin covers and film music
  • Solo act with backing tracks, although happy to collaborate with others
  • Clients have the choice of a professional Bose sound system or smaller Spark Edge amp
  • The ability to play all styles, from Classical & pop to traditional Scottish & foreign tracks
  • A strong sight-reader, so perfectly capable of adding new requests
  • Clients have the choice of an amped acoustic violin or an electric violin

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There are currently 10 user ratings for Scottish Violinist

AVERAGE RATING

10 / 101

Location

Based in Thurso, Caithness

Will travel up to 225 miles
green circle = areas covered (up to 225 miles)
pink circle = free travel (up to 45 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.

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

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

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.


Do you provide sound and lighting equipment?

YES - all sound equipment.


What information do you require about a venue?

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.)


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

I can provide a YouTube playlist between sets.

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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!


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

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!


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

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.


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

Weddings and engagements are my favourite.

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

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!


Are you happy to perform outside?

Yes - provided that I can access shelter for my violin and my equipment should it be wet/foggy/snowy.


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

I have an extensive set list that clients can choose from. Additional requests are also possible - and the first 3 requests are completely free!


How do previous clients most commonly describe your performances?

"Absolutely brilliant", "Fantastic", "So talented", "Like listening to a CD!"


Can you perform any completely solo pieces on violin?

Yes, I most certainly can!

Recent Clients

Scottish Violinist has performed for these clients:

Haven Coffee Shop, Thurso

Private couples

Highland Hospice, Thurso

Tesco, Wick & Thurso

Local care homes, Wick & Thurso

Venues

Scottish Violinist has performed at these venues:

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

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

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

Features:

PAT tested

Instrumental

Can provide battery amplifier

Public liability insurance

DJ / background music options

Will travel internationally

Uses backing tracks

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