Status Cymbal String Quartet
Status Cymbal is the String Quartet with a difference. Their approach to popular music is both refreshing and adventurous. From the beginning, work from Britain's finest string arrangers was commissioned, so that their unrivalled library now extends from Bach to Rock via Strauss, Gershwin, Bernstein, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, The Carpenters, Led Zepelin and Queen to name but a few.
Weddings
Having now performed at over one thousand weddings since 1990 when the group was formed, STATUS CYMBAL has the experience and expertise to provide for so important an event. They understand that this is your special day, and that their music will add that finishing touch to create the perfect atmosphere of a truly wonderful occasion.
Their uniquely extensive repertoire stretches from Vivaldi to the Verve. An entirely classical approach is often popular, as is a preference for completely modern pop and rock music. A mixture of all styles, from Baroque through Opera, Jazz and Musicals to recent hits is also available. You will almost certainly find that favourite number to make your wedding truly personal, but in the unlikely event that your tune is not already in the playlist, it can be especially for the occasion.
Status Cymbal have performed at many of the major UK wedding venues, including prestigious hotels such as the Ritz and Claridges, as well as a considerable number of countrywide stately homes. In fact, having also entertained at a wedding in the famous wine-producing Chateau Lafitte in Bordeaux, it is their proud boast that distance is no object, and they are also entirely at home in more conventional, perhaps less prominent surroundings.
Corporate Entertainment
As one of the UK's busiest and most sought-after professional quartets, STATUS CYMBAL has the ability and panache to enhance the ambience of every kind of event, however formal or informal the occasion. A keen sense of the requisite style, achieved by close liaison with the client, ensures that Status Cymbal will be playing the right music in the right place and at the right time.
The quartet has provided music for functions in venues including Althorp, Claridges, the London Ritz, Highclere Castle and Pinewood Studios where guest lists have included the Princess Royal, Cleo Laine, Lord Sainsbury, Pavarotti, Bob Geldof, Keith Richards, Steve Redgrave, David Gower and Boy George. The UK premiere of the Hollywood movie The Royal Tenenbaums, the re-launches of O2 and Audos, the corporate event organisers, as well as the magazine Men's Health's search for a new cover model all saw STATUS CYMBAL providing the music. Always, special care is taken to match the music to the wishes of the engager, thus creating the appropriate mood and atmosphere however extrovert or intimate the occasion might be.
International
STATUS CYMBAL performances are enjoyed not only in Britain, but throughout the world, as well as on the high seas. During a two-month contract on Holland-America's MS Noordam, passengers voted the quartet near perfect marks in a customer satisfaction survey. Cunard invited them to perform three concerts on the prestigious MS Caronia (sister ship to the QE2) during its trans-Atlantic cruise to the Caribbean and P & O chose Status Cymbal as opening entertainment at the launch, in the presence of the Princess Royal, of their flagship Adonia, as well as entertaining guests at a charity ball aboard the Aurora and a subsequent Caribbean cruise aboard the Arcadia.
Status Cymbal is:
Gill Austin: Violin
Dave Williams: Violin
Paul Appleyard: Viola
Una Birtchnell: Cello
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