Fantasia Wind Trio is a professional woodwind Trio that plays throughout the UK.
Formed in 2003 after graduating from The Royal Academy of Music, The trio have a large repertoire which includes their core Classical music as well as Show tunes, jazz and Pop arrangements giving them everything need to entertain for just about any event and appeal to most tastes. The trio play for weddings, parties, receptions, corporate events and concerts.
Weddings and events
Fantasia Wind Trio are a popular alternative to the traditional string trio or quartet for weddings and events. Music is drawn from a varied repertoire that includes Classical music from Brahms, Handel, Mozart etc. to lighter music from Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Jerome Kern, Gershwin, Nat King Cole and onto pop classics from The Beatles, ABBA, Elvis and the Kaiser Chiefs!
The trio have played for wedding and events at: The Hurlingham Club, Brocket Hall, Stourhead, Lincoln’s Inn, The Dorchester Hotel, Chandos House, The Landmark Hotel, Grovefield House etc.. They have also played aboard cruise liners for Saga and visited The Far East, Oceania, Russia and Scandinavia
Concerts
The concert platform is somewhere that the trio feel very much at home and they have toured extensively throughout the UK giving recitals and concerts. The woodwind trio provides concert goers with something different, giving the audience a chance to hear something other than strings based music in concert and presenting each performance in an upbeat, lively style.
Concert venues include: Festivals in Stratford-upon-Avon, Church Stretton and Deal. Notable London venues include the National Portrait Gallery and Kings Place.
Highlights
Members of trio have played concerts with Nigel Kennedy and played with Elton John in the UK and New York as part of the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra.
Educational workshops
Fantasia Wind Trio also work with children of all ages educating them via school visits, workshops and concerts. The trio have also ran an educational music course for a number of years where they work with both children and adults and they believe it to be very important that the younger generation have access to live music (particularly wind music!)
Audio Samples
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- 1. Flower Duet 0:30
- 2. I Feel Pretty 0:31
- 3. Moon River 0:30
Set list / Repertoire
Classical
Classical and opera
Arne – Dance from Comus
Bach – Adagio in F
Bach –‘Anna Magdalena’ Minuet
Bach – Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Bach – Three-part inventions
Bach – Minuet
Bach – Sarabande
Bach – Air on the G string
Bach/Gounod – Ave Maria
Bach – Gavotte from Wedding Cantata
Beethoven – Minuet in G
Bizet – Excerpts from Carmen
Boccherini – Minuet
Brahms – Hungarian Dance No.5
Chopin – Mazurka Op.67 No.3
Debussy – Golliwog’s Cakewalk
Delibes – Flower Duet (Lakmé)
Dvorak – Humoresque
Elgar – Chanson de Matin
Elgar – Salut d’amour
Faure – Pavane
Faure – Berceuse
Gluck – Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Gounod – Je Veux Vivre (Romeo et Juliette)
Grieg – Morning (Peer Gynt)
Grieg – Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel – La Rejouissance from Royal Fireworks Music
Handel – Water Music Suite
Handel – Sarabande
Handel – Ombra mai fu
Handel – Wher’er You Walk
Haydn – St Anthony Chorale
Kreisler – Liebesfreud
Mendelssohn – Wedding March
Morricone – Gabriel’s Oboe
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart – Five Divertimentos
Mozart – Voi che Sapete (Marriage of Figaro)
Mozart – Minuet in G minor
Mozart – Rondo alla Turca
Pachelbel – Canon
Puccini – O Mio Babbino Caro (Gianni Schicci)
Purcell – Trumpet Tune
Purcell – Rondeau (Faery Queen)
Rossini – Largo al Factotum (Barber of Seville)
Schubert – Serenade
Schubert – Ave Maria
Stanley – Trumpet Voluntary
Strauss – Radetzky March
Strauss – Blue Danube Waltz
Strauss – Pizzicato Polka
Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty Waltz
Ungar – Ashokan Farewell
Verdi – Drinking Song (La Traviata)
Vivaldi – Spring from the Four Seasons
Wagner – Bridal March
Jazz and light music
Arlen – Over the Rainbow
Bacharach – Look of Love
Bacharach – Close To You
Barry – We Have All the Time In the World
Bernstein – I Feel Pretty (West Side Story)
Carson Parks – Somethin’ Stupid
Conrad – The Continental
Farrar – Hopelessly Devoted to You (Grease)
Farrar – You’re the One that I Want (Grease)
Gardel – Por una Cabeza (Scent of a Woman)
Garner – Misty
Gershwin/Danson – I Got Plenty of Nothing
Gershwin – I Got Rhythm
Gershwin – Love Walked In
Gershwin – Embraceable You
Gershwin – Someone To Watch Over Me
Gershwin – Summertime
Howard – Fly Me to the Moon
Jobim – The Girl from Ipanema
Kaempfert – Spanish Eyes
Kern – Smoke Gets in your Eyes
Kern – The Way You Look Tonight
King Cole – When I Fall in Love
Mancini – Moon River
Menken – A Whole New World (Aladdin)
Piazzolla – Libertango
Porter – Every Time We Say Goodbye
Porter – Let’s Do It
Rodgers – Blue Moon
Rodriguez – La Cumparsita
Sherwin – A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Sager/Foster – The Prayer (A. Bocelli)
Waller/Brooks – Ain’t Misbehavin’
Weiss & Thiele – What A Wonderful World
Wright and Forrest – Stranger in Paradise
Youmans – Tea for Two
Pop
Abba – Thank You for the Music
Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Cara, Irene – What a Feeling (Flashdance)
Carpenters – We’ve Only Just Begun
Carey, Mariah – Hero
Costello, Elvis – She
de Burgh – Lady in Red
Denver – Annie’s Song
Groban, Josh – You Raise Me Up
John, Elton – Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
John, Elton – Your Song
Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict a Riot
Kenny G – Forever in Love
King, Ben E – Stand by Me
Legend, John – All of Me
Lennon & McCartney – When I’m Sixty Four
Lennon & McCartney – All You Need is Love
Massive Attack – Teardrop
McCartney – Frog Chorus
Parton, Dolly – Love is Like a Butterfly
Perry – Beautiful (Christina Aguilera)
Presley, Elvis – Can’t Help Falling In Love
Richie, Lionel – Endless Love
Zimmer – You’re So Cool (from True Romance)