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Niche – The London String Quartet

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Welcome to Niche London String Quartet’s website!

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Niche London Strings provide exciting and stylish London string quartet entertainment for wedding music, corporate entertainment and birthday parties, engagement proposals, gala balls, charity events, Christmas party entertainment and every exciting event possible in-between!

With a passion and energy second to none, Niche London String Quartet is made up of highly skilled, classically trained professional musicians with a wealth of performance experience both at home and abroad. Our members have played in a huge variety of different musical settings and in such prestigious venues as The Royal Albert and Royal Festival Halls. Repeat clients range from philanthropic billionaires to famous worldwide brands with the string quartet frequently playing for celebrities and even royalty like HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. 

 Niche String Quartet’s London hire and repertoire is particularly special as it spans across all the music genres from Classical Favourites to the Latest Chart Hits. This string quartet are particularly commended for our enthralling and engaging performances of Modern string quartet chart hit songs! Niche London Quartet has entertained thousands of people across the last 10 years with their modern song arrangements and their repertoire list grows everyday. Our skills also allow us to write and arrange music on request ensuring your wedding or event is unique and will instantly stand out from the crowd. Of course being trained classically allows us to cater for classical enthusiasts as well as providing a healthy mix of classical greats and romantic film music for everyone to enjoy!

Each bespoke event is created and delivered with the client’s interests at heart. Niche love using their musical versatility to provide you with a musical feast that will leave guests thrilled and uplifted whilst making your event unique and memorable.

Niche’s members can also be hired as soloists, or as our ever popular London String Trio or String Duo.  

Niche London String Trio

Introducing Niche London String Trio

Niche London String Trio is a group made up of three string instruments – the two violinists and cellist from the best quartet in London! Our trio has become a very popular option for wedding music, birthday parties, charity events and corporate entertainment hire.

Niche London Trio are a favourite of the US Ambassador and his wife recently playing twice at their Regents Park residence Winfield House to many esteemed US and UK guests. Also Niche Trio were the first ever event musicians hired to perform at the brand new US Embassy at Nine Elms.

Why a String Trio?

The string trio is the perfect option when space availability and budget is not able to work with the four quartet musicians. The sound quality is still of the highest standard and Niche String Trio plays a wide range of classical favourites and our famously large and varied repertoire of modern songs!

Recently Niche String Trio musicians have been hired in London, Surrey, Essex and the Cotswolds to play wedding ceremony and reception music at: Hotel Cafe Royal, Kew Gardens, Gaynes Park, Caroline Gardens Chapel, Stationers’ Hall, One Whitehall Place, Foxhill Manor, The Four Seasons and The Dorchester.

Niche London String Trio
Niche London String Trio playing for a wedding ceremony at Kew Gardens

What if my event has a large guest list?

With our own top quality amplification equipment available to all our clients we can make sure our musicians, whether quartet, trio, duo or soloist provide the perfect level of ambiance for large numbers of guests and also large venue spaces.

Christmas is coming! How do I make my London event the best?

Our London musicians are highly experienced, elegant event musicians perfect to suit the sparkle and fun of the Christmas party season! Niche London String Trio is the perfect flexible and dynamic group for your event playing both a mix of the very best traditional and contemporary Christmas songs.

Listen to some live carols being performed below by Niche Trio or visit our Niche Live Jukebox page to find out about our fun interactive performance package! Get In Touch for hire prices or phone on (+44) 07506682356

String Quartet Wedding Hire London

Niche London string groups are the top choice for string quartet wedding music hire in London & throughout the UK. One of the most popular and experienced London wedding string quartets with a passion for modern string quartet wedding music and also playing the classical favourites perfectly like Pachelbel’s Canon in D!

Since Niche London String Quartet and Trio launched our team of musicians have played for OVER 500 events and weddings. We enjoy providing string quartet wedding hire throughout London for weddings big and small. Our musicians have been hired for intimate wedding ceremonies with just the newlywed couple and their closest members of family at small London town halls and venues like Asia House, One Marylebone Town Hall or BMA House. Or for amplified string quartet wedding music at huge reception and wedding breakfast celebrations in iconic luxury ballroom venues like The Landmark London, The Dorchester, The Savoy or Hotel Cafe Royal

Our string quartet and trio wedding music selections are huge and varied and there is something for all ages and tastes to love and enjoy! Some clients want all classical music with hymns for a traditional wedding ceremony music or some clients want to hear all the latest modern chart hits. We are particularly proud of our extensive list of modern string quartet wedding songs. Songs like All of Me, Halo, Thinking Out Loud, Signed Sealed Delivered are firm wedding song favourites that our wedding couples choose time and time again.

Often our string bands are hired for more than one part of the wedding day and our string quartet wedding hire can range from one to five hours to cover all the daytime celebrations, ceremony, reception and wedding breakfast, before your evening band or DJ takes over! Also make sure to check out our sister entertainment agency YourEventMusic.co.uk for other types of London wedding musicians to hire for your evening wedding entertainment. You can then book all your wedding musicians at the same time as one easily organised package.

Are you planning your wedding at a venue outside of London? Don’t worry we are also happy to travel and often provide string quartet wedding hire at some of the most beautiful wedding venues in Hertfordshire, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Oxfordshire. You won’t miss out on having top quality string quartet wedding music for your big day!

Beautiful Barn Wedding Venues London

Niche London String Quartet love to travel, especially when we are hired to play wedding music at beautiful barn wedding venues just outside of London! Read on to find out more about the best barn wedding venues and Niche Quartet wedding performances just outside of London. We look forward to playing at these venues again for our latest 2019 and 2020 wedding entertainment bookings!

 

Blake Hall – Ongar, Essex

The London String Quartet played for many memorable Essex wedding venues last year including 2 at the just too perfect Blake Hall. Brides and grooms who booked Niche London Quartet had their wedding ceremony in the Hay Barn. Our wedding musicians sit up on the beautiful glass fronted balcony and the music floats up into the beams, over the top of the guests creating the perfect welcoming atmosphere.

Then imagine the magic of walking in to Niche Quartet’s perfect rendition of Pachelbel’s Canon in D to all your friends and family and the love of your life waiting for you at the end of the aisle. 

Our beautiful 2018 bride Kendal chose our string quartet for her wedding and wrote a 5 star review on our Facebook page!

We booked Niche London String Quartet for our wedding at Blake Hall in November and couldn’t have been happier!! The correspondence ahead of the day was extremely helpful and professional and the music played was just stunning! It set the scene perfectly for our ceremony and drinks reception and we received so many compliments from family and friends. We would be delighted to recommend – thank you again!”

Watch her perfect wedding entrance below:

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Niche String Quartet then played our modern wedding music mix which carried across the sunlit gardens for the wedding reception. The perfect upbeat start to the celebratory vibe for the afternoon!

 

Gaynes Park – Epping, Essex

Gaynes Park is another beautiful barn setting just outside London, perfect for a stunning wedding ceremony in their orangery with wedding reception right next door in the gardens. Niche have played at this barn for weddings throughout the years as string quartet and also string trio. The Orangery is a light and airy large space with the perfect nook for the wedding musicians to play in. The music welcomes guests as they enter through the big double doors. Brides and grooms love to have the quartet play classical music for a tradition feel to match the pretty rustic setting. Once the real celebrations begin and the doors are thrown open to the gardens Niche Quartet can create the perfect fun atmosphere playing their latest mix of fun pop and modern wedding music! 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Tewin Bury Farm – Welwyn, Hertfordshire

Tewin Bury Farm provides one of the most perfect rustic barn wedding venues in Hertfordshire with the River Mimram flowing next to the window. There is also a one of a kind minstrel’s gallery set high in the beams. This is the perfect spot for the string quartet to play with the music floating over the top of the gallery. Niche London String Quartet can create the most beautiful and perfect atmosphere to match the 17th century setting.

Our Spring 2018 bride Frankie was a violinist herself and also Manager of the London Symphony Orchestra. With her experienced musical ear she hired Niche London String Quartet to play for her wedding ceremony and reception at Tewin Bury Farm in The Tythe Barn. She asked the string quartet to play classical wedding favourites such as Air in G and Bach’s Double Violin Concerto to welcome guests. She then asked our wedding musicians to learn and prepare her favourite piece ‘Marry Me’ from classic film My Best Friend’s Wedding for her walk down the aisle. It was perfectly romantic with plenty of happy tears from the bride, groom and her guests – One of Niche Quartet’s highlights of 2018!

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Great Fosters – Egham, Surrey

Once again another perfect barn wedding venue hidden away just outside London right near the M25! Often the alumnae of nearby grand university Royal Holloway will get married at their breathtaking chapel nearby. They then follow on with their wedding celebrations at the nearby stylish and rustic Great Fosters Hotel. The Painted Hall is a wonderful setting for their wedding reception and then The Tithe Barn is perfect for a beautiful wedding breakfast.

In autumn Niche London String Trio played for a couple’s wedding where the groom is a videographer and so naturally their theme was film music based! They found plenty to love on our repertoire lists ranging from memorable Disney tunes to their favourite action film soundtracks. When the couple were announced to the room as the new Mr & Mrs for the wedding breakfast we played The Royal Fireworks music, perfect to match the rustic and grand barn lit by candles and fairy-lights. Then guests where thrilled as the string trio switched straight into the instantly recognisable Game of Throne theme tune following with brilliant soundtrack after soundtrack. The Jurassic Park theme song was a big hit as well with several guests coming to film our performance in-between meal courses!

 

 
 
 
 
 
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There are some of the string quartet and trio’s favourite barn wedding venues that are just outside London. We hope you have found this post an interesting read to help you plan for your wedding day. To think about your wedding entertainment and what a string quartet would add to your wedding ceremony – whether your theme is rustic charm or something completely different! Next time we will write about our favourite grand and luxurious wedding performances in stunning London venues…

Corporate Christmas Party Entertainment London

With only 12 weeks until Christmas Niche London String Quartet are looking forward to providing our best Corporate Christmas Party Entertainment London packages for 2018! If you are looking for the perfect, unique office Christmas party ideas and Corporate events inspiration read through our past creative Christmas entertainment event blogs for inspiration or see ideas from our Xmas performances last year:

Best Corporate Christmas Party Entertainment London ideas

The quickest way to bring Christmas cheer and fun to your office christmas party in London is live music and Niche String Quartet and Trio know how to entertain and engage your guests so they have an unforgettable evening. Our London string musicians provide an instant air of class and sophistication with their quality performances and also a sense of festive fun playing their modern and traditional Christmas music favourites. 

Last year Niche London Quartet played amplified dressed in ball gowns at wonderful London Christmas event venues like Greenwich Observatory and the quirky and unique Underglobe at Shakespere’s Globe Theatre for corporate Christmas parties and winter events. Our clients especially loved hearing our modern string quartet pop renditions mixed in with the modern Christmas music favourites we play. 

Office Christmas Party Entertainment London

The string quartet and trio performed at the Hilton London Hotels twice for very different style Christmas events. One was a masquerade ball dinner where the string quartet played on the dance floor by candle light wearing black ball gowns along with our Masquerade masks.

Our second performance was as the London String Trio amplified at a Christmas themed event at Hilton Park Lane for Imperial Alumnae. Here we played alongside a fun Christmas themed photo-booth and magician entertainment providing our Christmas entertainment package of Niche Live Jukebox. Guests loved picking their favourite modern songs and their favourite Christmas music to hear from our huge list of repertoire. We even had some sing a long moments towards the end of the event! 

Hear snippets of the string trio performing Christmas carols as live Corporate Christmas Entertainment in London below!

Contact us now to find out our availability for the Winter Season of Christmas events!

Modern String Quartet London

Niche London String Quartet specialise in playing the Best Modern Music for Corporate Events and Weddings. Read about our modern string quartet London Tech Week performances and more from the busiest month for string quartet hire!

Tech Week London 2018

Mordern String Quartet London Tech Week - Niche London

London Tech Week took place on the 11th-17th June in 2018 celebrating tech through the power of events. Naturally the most exciting tech brands turned to Niche London for the right modern string quartet music to make their events unforgettable! Our first Tech Week event was to play as trio, amplified through the in-house AV, to open the London Tech Week Gala Dinner in aid of The Princes Trust in the grounds of the Tower of London. We were honoured to be hired to be the London string musicians to provide the entertainment for this important charitable event and create the perfect atmosphere for an unforgettable celebration.

The next day Niche String Quartet played modern music as entertainment for guests at the TechXLR8 awards ceremony corporate event at Gibson Hall, a glittering events venue in the heart of the City of London. Guests enjoyed our modern music throughout dinner and as a warm up for the awards ceremony to begin. Earlier that same day our all female string quartet had already been a very modern string quartet in London, playing for a surprise performance of ‘Simply the Best’ at Kings Cross as part of an elaborate surprise goodbye gift to a top event’s company C.E.O!

Our final Tech Week performance meant Niche Quartet were up bright and early dressed smart casual to welcome guests with fabulous modern music (chosen by the director from our extensive song repertoire) at the AI Summit at Excel London. Guests were filming us as we played and our music was the perfect way to get them excited for a day of exciting new tech filled exhibition. When we had finished the director enjoyed it so much he said he wished he had hired us for another hour!

Modern String Quartet London Tech Week clients

Modern String Quartet London

Tech Week clients loved Niche Quartet’s modern music, finding it the perfect accompaniment for their celebratory events containing the latest gadgets and gizmos, their charity gala ball and to open on the most modern topic of AI.

Contact us here to find out more about how our modern string quartet hire in London is perfect for your corporate events!