Syrinx String Quartet

The Syrinx String Quartet is a dynamic ensemble based in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 

Formed in 2004, they have provided music for many weddings, receptions, corporate functions, private parties, and other special events. Syrinx brings their musicality, experience, and professionalism to your special occasion. The quartet have performed at many locations around the lower mainland, as well as Whistler, Harrison, Chilliwack, the Sunshine Coast, Gulf Islands, and Vancouver Island. The quartet has a very large repertoire, including a diverse selection of standard classical and baroque music, some jazz standards, some classic rock and contemporary pop, Christmas/holiday music, as well as the exciting option of strings plus trumpet (available for wedding ceremonies).

 

Syrinx String Quartet accommodates special requests and would be happy to create a special musical arrangement for your wedding or special event.


The Syrinx String Quartet is a dynamic ensemble based in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 

Formed in 2004, they have provided music for many weddings, receptions, corporate functions, private parties, and other special events. Syrinx brings their musicality, experience, and professionalism to your special occasion. The quartet have performed at many locations around the lower mainland, as well as Whistler, Harrison, Chilliwack, the Sunshine Coast, Gulf Islands, and Vancouver Island. The quartet has a very large repertoire, including a diverse selection of standard classical and baroque music, some jazz standards, some classic rock and contemporary pop, Christmas/holiday music, as well as the exciting option of strings plus trumpet (available for wedding ceremonies).

 

Syrinx String Quartet accommodates special requests and would be happy to create a special musical arrangement for your wedding or special event.


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Repertoire/Song list

Syrinx have everything from baroque, classical and romantic-era pieces, to excerpts from musicals and operas, a growing collection of jazz standards, as well as some classic rock selections, and the list is always growing…

(Listed alphabetically by composer/songwriter/band)

ANDERSON, LEROY:

  • The Typewriter
  • Sandpaper Ballet
  • Forgotten Dreams
  • A Trumpeter’s Lullaby
  • The Waltzing Cat
  • The Syncopated Clock
  • Belle of the Ball
  • Plink, Plank, Plunk
  • Blue Tango
  • Jazz Pizzicato
  • Horse and Buggy
  • Serenata
  • Jazz Legato
  • Fiddle-Faddle

AYER, NAT:

  • Oh! You Beautiful Doll

BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN:

  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
  • Double Concerto in D minor
  • Gavottes I & II from “Orchestral Suite No. 3”, BVW 1068

BEATLES:

  • A Hard Day’s Night
  • And I Love Her
  • Blackbird
  • Eight Days A Week
  • Get Back
  • Good Day Sunshine
  • Got To Get You Into My Life
  • Hello, Goodbye
  • Hey Jude
  • I Feel Fine
  • If I Fell
  • Lady Madonna
  • Michelle
  • Norwegian Wood
  • Paperback Writer
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
  • The Fool on the Hill
  • Tomorrow Never Knows
  • When I’m Sixty-Four
  • World Without Love
  • Yesterday

BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG:

  • Fur Elise
  • Symphony No. 5 in C minor, mvt. I
  • Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”), mvt. I
  • Quartet Op.18, No. 6

BERLIN, IRVING:

  • Play a Simple Melody

BERLIOZ, HECTOR:

  • Symphonie Fantastique, Movement 2 “Un Bal”

BIZET, GEORGES:

  • Adagietto from “L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1”

BLUMLEY, ALBERT E.:

  • I’ll Fly Away

BOCCHERINI, LUIGI:

  • Minuet from “String Quintet in E” Op. 11, No. 5

BOCK, JERRY:

  • Sunrise, Sunset from “Fiddler on the Roof”

BORODIN, ALEXANDER:

  • Notturno from “Quartet No. 2 in D”

BRAHMS, JOHANNES:

  • Lullaby
  • Hungarian Dance No. 5
  • Hungarian Dance No. 6

BRUCH, MAX:

  • Adagio (Main Theme)- slow mvt. from “Violin Concerto No.1”

COLDPLAY:

  • Viva La Vida

CREAM:

  • Sunshine of Your Love

DAVIS, PAUL:

  • Spring Song

DEBUSSY, CLAUDE-ACHILLE:

  • Girl with the Flaxen Hair
  • Le petit negre

DVORAK, ANTONIN:

  • Finale from “Sonatina in G Major”
  • Humoresque
  • Largo from “New World Symphony”
  • Quartet No. 12 in F Major, “The American”

ELGAR, EDWARD:

  • Salut d’amour
  • Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)

FAURE, GABRIEL:

  • Apres un reve
  • Pavane

GERSHWIN, GEORGE:

  • Embraceable You
  • I Got Rhythm
  • The Man I Love
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It
  • Someone To Watch Over Me
  • Summertime (arr. E. Knudson)
  • Swanee
  • Do It Again
  • Stairway to Paradise

GRIEG, EDVARD:

  • Gavotte, from “Holberg Suite, Op. 40”

GRUNFELD, ALFRED:

  • Valse

GROBAN, JOSH:

  • You Raise Me Up

HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH:

  • Quartet Op.3, No.5

HOLST, GUSTAV:

  • ‘Jupiter’ from “The Planets”

IRISH FIDDLE TUNES:

  • 1- A Lovely Lass (arr. G. Speckert)
  • 2- Nothing Can Sadden Us (arr. G. Speckert)
  • 3- Quiet Sailing Waters (arr. G. Speckert)
  • 4- The Green Glen (arr. G. Speckert)
  • 5- The Foggy Dew (arr. G. Speckert)
  • 6- With Spirit (arr. G. Speckert)
  • 7- An Irish Waltz Medley: My Wild Irish Rose,  The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady, That’s an Irish Lullaby, When Irish Eyes are Smiling (C. Alcott/M. Nugent/J.R. Shannon/E. Ball; arr. S. Rosenhaus)

JAZZ STANDARDS COLLECTION:

  • 1- It’s Only a Paper Moon (arr. B. Ligon)
  • 2- It Had To Be You (arr. M. Norgaard)
  • 3- Bye Bye Blackbird (arr. B. Caputo)
  • 4- Blue Moon (arr. M. Turner)
  • 5- Take Five (arr. B. Ligon)
  • 6- How High the Moon (arr. T. Sharp)
  • 7- A Day in the Life of a Fool (arr. B. Ligon)

MORE JAZZ & POPULAR STANDARDS:

JENKINS, KARL:

  • Palladio

JOBIM, ANTONIO CARLOS:

  • The Girl from Ipanema

KNUDSON, ELIZABETH:

  • A Vagabond Song
  • Short and Suite (mvts. I, II, III)

LED ZEPPELIN:

  • Stairway to Heaven

MARLEY, BOB:

  • Is This Love (arr. E. Knudson)

MENKEN, ALAN:

  • A Whole New World (from “Aladdin”)
  • Beauty and the Beast

METALLICA:

  • Nothing Else Matters (arr. E. Knudson)

MEYER, GEORGE:

  • For Me and My Gal

MONACO, JAMES:

  • You Made Me Love You

MONTI, VITTORIO:

  • Czardas

MOZART, WOLFGANG:

  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)
  • Quartet No. 4 in C Major, K. 157
  • Quartet No. 17 in Bb Major- “The Hunt”, K. 458

O’CONNOR, MARK:

  • Appalachia Waltz

OFFENBACH, JACQUES:

  • Galop from “La vie Parisienne”

OPERA FAVORITES COLLECTION:

  • 1- O mio babbino caro from “Gianni Schicchi” (Puccini, Giacomo)
  • 2- The Flower Song from “Lakme” (Delibes, Leo)
  • 3- Der Vogelfanger from “The Magic Flute” (Mozart, Wolfgang)
  • 4- Bei Mannern from “The Magic Flute” (Mozart, Wolfgang)
  • 5- Barcarolle from “Tales of Hoffman” (Offenbach, Jacques)
  • 6- Habanera from “Carmen” (Bizet, Georges)
  • 7- Toreador’s Song from “Carmen” (Bizet, Georges)
  • 8- Meditation from “Thais” (Massenet, Jules)

PRESLEY, ELVIS:

  • Can’t Help Falling in Love
  • Love Me Tender

PUCCINI, GIACOMO:

  • Nessun Dorma, from “Turandot”

QUEEN:

  • Bohemian Rhapsody

RAVEL, MAURICE:

  • Pavane pour une infante défunte

ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO:

  • William Tell Overture

SATIE, ERIK:

  • Gymnopedie No. 1

SCHUBERT, FRANZ:

  • Scherzo from “Death and the Maiden”
  • Impromptu from Op. 142
  • Moment Musicale No. 3

SCHUMANN, ROBERT:

  • Traumerei

SIMAKU, THOMA:

  • The Nightingale

TANGOS & MORE COLLECTION: (MCLEAN, MICHAEL)

  • 1- Tango
  • 2- Serenata
  • 3- Rhumba
  • 4- Csardas
  • 5- Fandango
  • 6- Tango Chromatique

TRADITIONAL:

  • Siman tov u mazel tov (Jewish)
  • Steffaleken (Scandinavian)
  • Toss the Feathers (Irish)
  • Vals fra Jamtland (Scandinavian)

STRAUSS, JOHANN (JR.):

  • On the Beautiful Blue Danube
  • Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

SULLIVAN, ARTHUR:

  • Three Little Maids from “The Mikado”

VIVALDI, ANTONIO:

VOLANS, KEVIN:

  • String Quartet No. 1, “White Man Sleeps”

WARD, CHARLES:

  • The Band Played On

WILLIAMS, JOHN:

  • “Star Wars”: Main Theme

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OTHER:

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CELEBRATION OF LIFE

  • Abide With Me (W.H. Monk)
  • Amazing Grace (American trad.)
  • Beautiful Saviour (trad. German)
  • He Leadeth Me (W.B. Bradbury)
  • Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (L. van Beethoven)
  • I’ll Fly Away (arr. E. Knudson)
  • Nearer, My God To Thee (S.F. Adams)
  • Nessun Dorma from “Turandot” (G. Puccini)
  • Nimrod from “Enigma Variations” (E. Elgar)
  • The King of Love, My Shepherd Is (trad. Irish)
  • The Lord’s My Shepherd (J.L. Macbeth Bain)
  • When Peace, Like a River (Horatio G. Spafford)