The Minster String Quartet

Light/modern pieces

A Million Dreams (The Greatest Showman)
A Moment Like This (Leona Lewis)
A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)
A Whole New World (Alan Menken)
All I Ask Of You (Phantom of the Opera)
All Of Me (John Legend)
All You Need Is Love (Beatles)
Always (Bon Jovi)
Amazing Just The Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
And I Love Her (Beatles)
Angels (Robbie Williams)
Annie's Song (John Denver)
Anniversary Waltz (Franklin)
Anything Goes (Porter)
At Last (Etta James)
Beautiful Crazy (Luke Combs)
Beautiful in White (Shane Filan)
Beneath Your Beautiful (Emeli Sande)
Best Day Of My Life (American Authors)
Beyond The Sea (Lawrence/Trenet)
Bill Bailey (Cannon)
Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Bridge over Troubled Water (Simon)
Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
Calico Skies (McCartney)
Can I Have This Dance? (High School Musical 3)
Can You Feel The Love Tonight (Elton John)
Candle In The Wind (Elton John)
Can't Help Falling In Love With You (Elvis)
Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (Frankie Valli)
Chandalier (Sia)
Canyon Moon (Harry Styles)
Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol)
Chemtrails Over The Country Club (Lana Del Rey)
Chi Mai (Morricone)
Clocks (Coldplay)
Close To You (Bacharach)
Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)
Come On Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners)
Concerning Hobbits (Lord of the Rings)
Country Club (Joplin)
Country Gardens (Grainger)
Crazy In Love (Beyonce)
Diamonds (Rihanna)
Dixie (Emmett)
Don’t Cry for me Argentina (Lloyd Webber)
Don’t Stop Believing (Journey)
Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)
Embraceable You (Gershwin)
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables (Les Miserables)
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (Blues Brothers)
Everlasting Love (Buzz Cason)
Everything (Michael Buble)
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You (Michael Kamen)
Exile (Taylor Swift)
Fields Of Gold (Sting)
First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (Roberto Flack)
Fix You (Coldplay)
Fly Me To The Moon (Frank Sinatra)
Forever (Chris Brown)
Forrest Gump Feather Theme
Friday I'm In Love (The Cure)
From Here To The Moon And Back (Dolly Parton)
From Now On (The Greatest Showman)
Gangsta's Paradise (Coolio)
Get Lucky (Daft Punk)
Girl With The Flaxen Hair (Debussy)
God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
Golden Earth Girl (McCartney)
Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)
Greatest Day (Take That)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Halo (Beyonce)
Happy Birthday (Hill)
Harry Potter theme tune
Have I Told You Lately (Van Morrison)
Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles)
Here, There, Everywhere (The Beatles)
Hideaway/Light My Fire (Johnson Brothers/The Doors Hernandos)
Highway To Hell (ACDC)
Holiday (Green Day)
Honour Him (Gladiator)
House of Fun (Madness)
How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees)
How Long Will I Love You (Ellie Goulding)
How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You (James Taylor)
I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady)
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (Glover-Kind)
I Don't Know How To Love Him (Jesus Christ Superstar)
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing (Aerosmith)
I Dreamed A Dream (Schonberg)
If You Leave Me Now (Chicago)
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Porter)
I Got Rhythm (Gershwin )
I Know Him So Well (Andersson)
I'II Be There For You (Friends theme)
I Love The Way You Love Me (Boyzone)
I'm Yours (Jason Mraz)
Iris (Goo Goo Girls)
I Say A Little Prayer (Burt Bacharach)
Isn't She Lovely (Stevie Wonder)
I See The Light (Disney Tangled)
Is This Love (Bob Marley)
It Had To Be You (Frank Sinatra)
It Must Be Love (Madness)
It's A Beautiful Day (Buble)
It's All About You (McFly)
I Want It That Way (Backstreet Boys)
I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)
I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton/Whitney Houston)
Jeeves and Wooster theme tune
Jurassic Park theme tune
Just One Of Those Things (Porter)
Just The Way You Are (Joel)
Killarney; Cockles and Mussels; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Girl I Left Behind Me; Londonderry Air; The Irish Washerwoman; The Wild Rover; The Minstrel Boy; Irish Sherry arr Bill Thorpe (Irish music)
Killer Queen (Queen)
Kiss Me (Ed Sheran)
Kissing You (Des’ree)
La Bamba (trad Mexican)
La Paloma (traditional)
Leaning On A Lamppost (Gay)
Let It Go from Frozen (Disney)
Let’s Do It (Porter)
Living On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)
L.O.V.E. (Nat King Cole)
Love Actually (PM's theme)
Love and Marriage
Love Is All Around (Wet Wet Wet)
Love Is Here To Stay (Gershwin)
Lovely Day (Bill Withers)
Love Me Do (Beatles)
Love Me Like You Do (Ellie Goulding)
Love Me Tender (Elvis)
Love On Top (Beyoncé)
Love Story (Taylor Swift)
Made You Look (Meghan Trainor)
Magic Moments (Burt Bacharach)
Make You Feel My Love (Adele)
Makin’ Whoopee (Donaldson)
Mamma Mia (Abba)
Married Life (from the film Up)
Marry Me (Bruno Mars)
Mexican Hat Dance (traditional)
Moon River (Henry Mancini)
Moonlight and Roses (Lemare)
Mr Blue Sky (ELO)
Muppet show theme (Henson)
Music To Watch Girls By (Andy Williams)
My Favourite Things (Sound of Music)
My Funny Valentine (Rodgers)
My Girl (Robinson)
My Heart Will Go On (Titanic theme)
My Love (McCartney)
Neutron Star Collision (Muse)
Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
Never Enough (The Greatest Showman)
Next To Me (Emelie Sande)
Night and Day (Porter)
No Place I’d Rather Be (Clean Bandit)
No Time To Die (Billy Eilish)
O Sole Mio (di Capua)
One (U2)
On The Street Where You Live (Frederick Loewe)
One Day Like This (Elbow)
Only Human (Rag and Bone Man)
Only You (Yazoo)
Paperback Writer (Beatles)
Paradise (Coldplay)
Paragon Rag (Joplin)
Perfect (Ed Sheeran)

Light/modern pieces (con.)

Perfect Day (Reed)
Purple Rain (Prince)
Portuguese Love Theme from Love Actually (Craig Armstrong)
Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
Raindrops Keep Falling (Bacharach)
Rockabye (Clean Bandit)
Rolling In The Deep (Adele)
Royals (Lorde)
Rule The World (Take That)
Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
Shake It Off (Taylor Swift)
Shallow (Lady Gaga)
Shape of You (Ed Sheeran)
She (Charles Aznavour)
She's Always A Woman (Billy Joel)
Shine (Take That)
Signed Sealed Delivered (Stevie Wonder)
Simply the Best (Tina Turner)
Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder)
Skaters (Waldteufel)
Skyfall (Adele)
Sky Full Of Stars (Coldplay)
Smile (Charlie Chaplin)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (The Platters)
Solitaire (Sedaka)
Somebody to Love (Queen)
Someone Like You (Adele)
Someone To Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
Somewhere Only We Know (Keane)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Arlen)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole)
Somewhere, Tonight (West Side Story)
Songbird (Christine McVie)
Songs From A Secret Garden (Rolf Lovland)
So This Is Love (Cinderella)
Spaceman (Sam Ryder)
Stand By Me (Ben E King)
Star Wars Throne Room theme (John Williams)
Sugar We're Goin' Down (Fall Out Boy)
Summertime (Gershwin)
Sway (Cherry Pink)
Sweet Child O’Mine (Guns N Roses)
Sweet Disposition (Temper Trap)
S'Wonderful (Gershwin)
Symphony (Clean Bandit)
Take Me To The Church
Take The A Train (Billy Strayhorn)
Tale as Old As Time (Disney Beauty and the Beast)
That's Amore (Harry Warren)
The Entertainer (Joplin)
The Fellowship Reunited (Lord of the Rings)
The Girl From Impanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
The Man I love (Gershwin)
The Middle (Jimmy Eat World)
The Music Of The Night from Phantom
The One (Kodaline)
The Rose (Bette Midler)
Theme from Schindler’s List (Williams)
Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)
This Is Me (The Greatest Showman)
This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) (Natalie Cole)
Three Little Maids from School (Sullivan)
Time Of My Life (Dirty Dancing)
True Colours (Cindy Harper)
Truly, Madly, Deeply (Savage Garden)
UEFA Champions League Theme
Unchained Melody (North/Zaret)
Unconditionally (Katy Perry)
Unforgettable (Nat King Cole)
Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)
Use Somebody (Kings Of Leon)
Viva La Vida (Coldplay)
We Don't Talk About Bruno (Encanto)
We Found Love (Rihanna)
We Have All The Time In The World
What Is This Thing Called Love? (Porter)
Whatever (Oasis)
When I Fall In Love (Nat King Cole)
When I’m 64 (Beatles)
When You Say Nothing At All (Ronan Keating)
White Wedding (Billy Idol)
Wildest Dreams (Bridgerton)
Williams Cavatina from the Deer Hunter
Wonderwall (Oasis)
Writing's On The Wall (Sam Smith)
Yellow (Coldplay)
Yesterday (Beatles)
You And Me (Lifehouse)
You And You Alone (Delta Goodrem)
You Are So Beautiful (Cocker)
You Are The Reason (Callum Scott)
You Belong With Me (Taylor Swift)
You Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story)
You Know My Name (Casino Royale)
You Raise Me Up (Graham and Lovland)
Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher (Jackie Wilson)
Yours (Ella Henderson)
Your Song (Elton John)
You're Beautiful (James Blunt)
Yradier Cielito Lindo

Classical music

Bach Air on a G String
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 First and Third Mvt
Bach Gigue from Suite no 3
Bach Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Bach Prelude from English Suite no 3
Bach Suite no 3
Barber Adagio
Beethoven Adagio Sostenuto from moonlight Sonata
Beethoven European Anthem (from 9th Symphony)
Beethoven Fur Elise
Bizet Toreador’s song from Carmen
Boccherini Minuet
Chopin Prelude in E Minor
Corelli Concerto Grosso no 8 (Christmas)
Delibes Flower Duet from Lakme
Dvorak Humoresque
Elgar Chanson de Matin
Elgar Chanson de niut
Elgar Salut d’amour
Faure Berceuse from Dolly Suite
Faure Pavane
Gounod Ave Maria
Grieg Morning from Peer Gynt
Grieg Wedding day at Troldhaugen
Handel All We Like Sheep from the Messiah
Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel Five pieces from Music for the Royal Fireworks
Handel Hornpipe from Water Music, Bourree
Handel Largo
Handel Sarabande with variations
Handel Water Music Suite in D – Overture
Haydn Serenade
J C Bach Andante
Jenkins Palladio
Massenet Meditation from Thais
McEwen Danse Basse
Mendelssohn Wedding March
Mozart Wedding Procession from marriage of Figaro
Pachelbel Canon
Puccini Nessun Dorma
Puccini O Mio Babino Caro
Purcell 2 Rondeaux from Abdelazar and the Fairy Queen
Purcell Trumpet Tune
Ravel Bolero
Rubenstein Melody in F
Satie Gymnopedie no 1
Strauss Artist's Life
Strauss Emperor Waltz
Strauss Tales from Vienna Woods
Strauss The Blue Danube
Strauss Wiener Blut
Strauss Wine, Women and Song
trad Greensleeves
Vivaldi Spring
Vivaldi Winter 2
Wagner Bridal Chorus

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Kathy Jackson grew up locally and won a music scholarship at school and went on to study music at Exeter University. She has worked for a music publishers, as an orchestral librarian, and as manager of the BBC Radio 3 Music Library. Since having her three children she has retrained in IT and now works in education as well as teaching and playing the cello in various quartets and local ensembles. Kathy has has been playing in string quartets for weddings for over 20 years. She also enjoys arranging new songs for The Minster String Quartet.

What our couples say

'We were so happy to have The Minster String Quartet play at our wedding . They really were perfect in every way and made the day feel so much more special. The communication prior to the day was absolutely perfect and I would recommend them to everyone!'

Joe Green

'Thank you very much for playing at our wedding. A string quartet was something that we had not even considered until we heard you playing at Parley Manor open day. We immediately thought it would make a great addition to our big day. So many of our guests commented how good you all were.'

Nicola and Robert Wray

'Peter and I just wanted to thank you for playing at our wedding. It was absolutely beautiful and we are so pleased we booked you. All our guests commented on how lovely you were and it really made our wedding extra special. I could not have imagined our day to be any more perfect than it was because it was all I have ever dreamed of and much more. Thank you for being part of our very special wedding day. The music you played sounded perfect and you all played so well. I honestly cannot thank you enough.'

Mr and Mrs Gray

'I just wanted to send a quick email now that I am back from honeymoon. The music at our ceremony and for the drinks on the lawn was just perfect! Everyone commented on how lovely it was. It really made our ceremony something special. Thank you so much for helping make our day amazing!'

Hollie & Rob Blofield

'You were all amazing and helped to make our day so special.'

Melanie and Toby Jones

'Just wanted to say a big thank you for playing at the wedding. You were fantastic and all the guests enjoyed the music. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you in the future. Thank you again!'

Kerry and George Cupit

'I just wanted to say a huge thank you for playing at our wedding last month. The music was so lovely to hear when I was walking down the aisle and we have had so many comments on how good you guys were. I would highly recommend you to anyone getting married in the area!'

Jodie and Nick Bloomfield

'A massive thank you for coming and playing. You were brilliant. It really set the atmosphere for guests arriving and the music was so beautiful and I know much appreciated.'

Phil and Vicky Lenthall

'I would just like to say thank you for playing at our wedding. You sounded fab and it was everything I had imagined it would be! Your music really made our day and we actually wish we had booked you for longer!! Before the wedding you really helped us think of what sort of music we would want played and that made it very personal for us. The Rose sounded perfect at Parley Manor and I'm so thankful you learnt that one for us. Thank you again - you really were the perfect choice.'

Stephanie Littlewood-Miller

'The Minster String Quartet played at our wedding at Parley Manor back in June and it absolutely made the occasion. All our guests couldn't stop talking about how good they were and how special the experience was. I would 100% recommend them. They were also very easy to communicate with and very professional. The music was perfect too. One of the best decisions we made for our wedding!'

Becky and Joe Kiddle

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