Magenta Strings String Quartet or String Duo for any occasion & recording.

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Available to book from £400. For an accurate quote please make an enquiry.

About / Biography

Magenta Strings was formed in 2001 when Helen Coleman (violin) and Lucy Deakin (cello) met at Leeds College of Music. Magenta has developed into a vibrant young ensemble who play for weddings and functions throughout the Derbyshire and the Northwest. In addition to the quartet of four players, Helen & Lucy also perform regularly as a string duo (violin & cello).

The repertoire is well suited to a wide range of events and has been well received at weddings, receptions, birthdays, surprise proposals and bar mitzvah.

2023/2024 fees

String duo - violin and cello

1 hour - £400

2 hours - £420

3 hours - £480

4 hours - £520

String quartet - 2 violins, viola and cello

1 hour - £669

2 hours - £690

3 hours - £780

4 hours - £850

Reviews (18)

There are currently 18 user ratings for Magenta Strings

AVERAGE RATING

10 / 101

Location

Based in Matlock, Derbyshire

Will travel up to 70 miles
green circle = areas covered (up to 70 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.

DUO REPERTOIRE LIST

CLASSICAL;

Adagio (Albinoni)


Air from suite no.1 - Water Music (Handel, G.F.)

Air (Bach, J.S.)

Alleluia Exsulate Jubilate (Mozart)


Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel, G.F.)

Arioso (Bach, J.S.)

Ave Maria (Gounod, C.)

Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)


Barcarolle (Offenbach)


Bolero (Ravel)


Brandenburg concerto no.3 - 1st movement (Bach)

Canon (Pachelbel)

Cantabile (Tartini)


Chanson de Matin (Elgar, E.)

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)

Flower Duet (Delibes)

Grande Valse Brilliante Theme (Chopin)

Greensleeves

Hornpipe (Handel, G.F.)

Hungarian Dance No.5 (Brahms)

Jesu, joy of man’s desiring (Bach, J.S.)

La Rejouissance - Royal Fireworks (Handel, G.F.)

Largo from Xerxes (Handel, G.F.)


Meditation from Thais (Massenet)


Norwegian Dance No.2 (Grieg)


O Sole Mio (di Capuo)

Paris Angelicas (Franck, C.)

Por Una Cabeza (Gardel)


Romance (Mozart)


Salut d’Amour (Elgar, E.)


Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky)

Spring (Vivaldi, A.)


Tango (Albeniz)


Theme from Grande Valse Brilliante (Chopin)


Toreador’s Song from Carmen (Bizet)


Traumerei (Schumann, R.)

Wachet Auf (Bach, J.S.)

Wedding March “Here comes the bride” (Wagner, R.)


Wedding March (Mendelssohn)


Winter (Vivaldi, A.)

Suites of classical background music by Mozart, Bach & Handel 



MODERN;

Adventure of a Lifetime (Coldplay)

Ain't No Mountain High Enough


A Million Dreams (Greatest Showman)

A Thousand Years (Hodges & Perri)

All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera (Lloyd Webber)

All of Me (John Legend)

All the Same Things (Blink 182)


All You Need Is Love (Lennon & McCartney)


At Last (Etta James)


Best Day of My Life (American Authors)

Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Frankie Valli)

Champagne Supernova (Oasis)


Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol)


Colours of the Wind (Menken)

Come What May from Moulin Rouge (David Baerwold)

Dancing in the Moonlight (Toploader)

Don’t Stop Believing (Journey)

Drive By (Train)


Everybody's on the Run (Noel Gallagher)

Fields of Gold (Sting)


Greatest Day (Take That)


Halo (Beyonce)

Halocene (Bon Iver)

Hallelujah (Cohen)

Have I Told You Lately (Van Morrison)

Hedwig's Theme (from Harry Potter)


Here Comes the Sun (Beatles)

How Long Will I love You (Ellie Goulding)

I Can't Help Falling in Love With You (Elvis)


I Believe in a Thing Called Love (The Darkness)

I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing (Aerosmith)


I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen (Westendorf)


I’m Kissing You (Des’ree & Tim Atack)


I’m Yours (Jason M’Raz)


It Must Be Love (Madness)

I Will Wait (Mumford & Sons)

Jerusalem of Gold (Shemer)


Just The Way You Are (Bruno Mars)


Kiss Me (6p None the Richer)

Kissing You (from Romeo & Juliet)

La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf)

Like I'm Gonna Lose You (Meghan Trainer)

Make You Feel My Love, famous cover by Adele (Bob Dylan)


Marry You (Bruno Mars)


My Favourite Things (Hamilton)


My Heart Will Go On - Titanic (Horner)


M79 (Vampire Weekend)

Nightswimming (REM)

Nothing Else Matters (Metalica)

Now We Are Free (from Gladiator)


One Day Like This (Elbow)

Paradise (Coldplay)

Perfect (Ed Sheehan)


Perfect Day (Lou Reed)

Pompeii (Bastille)

Real Love (John Lennon)


Somewhere Only We Know (Keane)


Songbird, famous cover by Eva Cassidy (Christine McVie)

Stand By Me (Leiber, Stoller & King)

Star Wars medley

Summertime (Gershwin)

Superstition (Stevie Wonder)

Sweet Child of Mine (Guns & Roses)


The Universal (Blur)


The Wonder of You (Elvis)

There is a Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths)

Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheehan)

Tradition - Fiddler on the Roof (Bock)

Unchained Melody (from Ghost)

Viva La Vida (Coldplay)

We Go Together (from Grease)

Whatever (Oasis)

When I Fall In Love (Nat King Cole)


When You Taught Me How To Dance, from ‘Miss Potter’ (Westlake)


With Or Without You (U2)

Wonderful World (Weiss & Thiele)


Wonderful Tonight (Clapton)


Wonderwall (Oasis)

You Only Live Twice (James Bond)

You’re Beautiful (James Blunt)

Your Song (Elton John)

You’ve Got the Love, famous cover by Florence and the Machine

QUARTET REPERTOIRE LIST

CLASSICAL;

Air (Bach)

Alla Danza - Water Music (Handel)

Alleluia (Mozart)

Aria from Xerxes (Handel)

Arioso (Bach)

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)

Autumn from Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

Ave Maria (Schubert)

Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)

Barcarolle (Offenbach)

Beau Brummel (Elgar)

Boccherini’s Roundabout (Boccherini)

Bolero (Ravel)

Brandenburg No.3 (Bach)

Brindisi - Drinking Song

Canon in D (Pachelbel)

Chanson de Matin (Elgar)

Chanson de Nuit (Elgar)

Copellia March (Delibes)

Country Gardens (Cecil Sharp)

Divertimento (Mozart)

Finlandia Theme (Sibelius)

Flower Duet (Delibes)

Grande Valse Brilliante (Chopin)

G&S Selection (Gilbert & Sullivan)

Jesu Joy of Man Desiring (Bach)

Liebestraum (Liszt)

Magic Flute (Mozart)

Meditation (Massenet)

Minuet (Boccherini)

Mozart String Quartets

Nessun Dorma (Puccini)

Nimrod (Elgar)

Ode to Joy (Beethoven)

O Mio Babbino Caro (Puccini)

O Sole Mio (Capurro)

Panis Angelicas (Franck)

Pavane (Faure)

Por Una Cabeza (Gardel)

Pulcinella Suite (Stravinsky)

Radetzky March (Strauss)

Rondeau (Mouret)

Salut d’Amour (Elgar)

Sarabande (Handel)

Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)

Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky)

Spring from Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky)

Swan Lake Waltz (Tchaikovsky)

The Clock (Haydn)

Toreadors Song (Bizet)

Traumeri (Schubert)

Trumpet Tune (Purcell)

Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)

Valse (Chopin)

Wachet Auf (Bach)

Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovsky)

Wedding March, Here Comes The Bride (Wagner)

Wedding March (Mendelssohn)

Westminster Waltz (Farnon)

Winter from Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

MODERN;

A Whole New World (Disney. Aladdin)

Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)

Can Can (Offenbach)

Can’t Take My Eyes off You (Frankie Valli)

Champagne Supernova (Oasis)

Cherry Pink (Louiguy)

Cloud Busting (Kate Bush)

Dr Finleys Casebook (Trevor Duncan)

El Choclo (Villodo)

Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)

Evergreen (Paul Williams. Barbra Streisand version)

Fields of Gold (Sting)

Fix You (Coldplay)

Game of Thrones (Ramin Djawadi)

Here Comes the Sun (Beatles)

Here There and Everywhere (Beatles)

Kissing You (Des’ree & Atack)

La Cumparsita (Rodriguez)

Listen Do you Want to Hear a Secret (Beatles)

Make you Feel My Love (Bob Dylan. Covered by Adele)

Moonlight & Roses (Jim Reeves)

Night in Rio

Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues)

Nightswimming (REM)

Now I See the Light (Disney. Tangled)

One Day Like This (Elbow)

Perfect Day (Lou Reed)

Runaway (Corrs)

Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites (Skrillex)

She (Aznavour & Kretzmer. Covered by Elvis Costello)

Somewhere Out There (James Horner. From An American Tail)

Sway (Demetrio & Ruiz)

Tango Tartufo e Tagliatelle

The Typewriter (Leroy Anderson)

The Universal (Blur)

Vida la Vida (Coldplay)

You've Got a Friend (Toy Story Theme)

What a Wonderful World (Thiele)

Whatever (Oasis)

Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)

Yesterday (Beatles)

You’re Beautiful (James Blunt)

You've Got a Friend (Toy Story)

You’ll Never Walk Alone (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

Your Song (Elton John)

JAZZ;

A Fine Romance (Kern)

All the Things You Are (Kern)

Berties Blues (Paul Hart)

Bluesette (Thieleman)

Blue Tango (Leroy Anderson)

Caravan (Ellington & Tizol)

Country Club

Cry Me a River (Hamilton)

Day Dreamin’

Fly Me to the Moon (Howard)

Forgotten Dreams (Leroy Anderson)

I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)

In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington)

Jazz Pizzicato (Leroy Anderson)

Let’s Do it (Porter)

Long Ago and Far Away (Kern)

Love Walked In (Gershwin)

Lullaby of Birdland (Shearing)

Nice Work if you can get it (Gershwin)

No Dice

Pizzicato Polka (Strauss)

Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk)

Roseleaf Rag (Joplin)

September Song (Weill)

Singin’ in the Rain (Brown)

Solace (Joplin)

Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin)

Summertime (Gershwin)

S’Wonderful (Gershwin)

Teddy Bear’s Picnic (Bratton)

The Easy Winners (Joplin)

The Entertainer (Joplin)

The Man I Love (Gershwin)

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

The only requirements we have are chairs without arms and some shade if you want us to play outside.

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

We always arrive with plenty of time to setup, usually from 30mins to 1hr before we are due to start playing.

Recent Clients

Magenta Strings has performed for these clients:

Alfreton Hall

Allerton Castle

Black Horse Inn, Clifton

Cedar Court Hotel, Harrogate

Chevin Lodge, Otley

Coniston Hall, Coniston Cold

Duncombe Park, Helmsley

Etz Chaim Synagogue, Leeds

Harewood House

Harrogate Pavillions

Hazlewood Castle, North Yorkshire

Healds Hall Hotel

Hilton National Hotel, Leeds

Kenwood Hall, Sheffield

Leeds City Art Gallery

Leeds City Museum - Opening night celebtrations

Leeds Town Hall 150th Birthday Celebration

Leeds Town Hall Clock Tower – ‘Lights’ night

Oakwell Hall

Oakwood Hall, Bingley

Ripley Castle, Harrogate

Rogerthorpe Manor

Rowley Manor

Royal Armouries, Leeds

Swinton Park, Masham

The Light, Leeds

The Mansion, Roundhay Park

The Red Lion at Stanage

Thorpe Park Hotel

Waterton Park Hotel, Wakefield

Wentbridge House Hotel

Wood Hall Hotel, Linton

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