Welcome to
The Bridgewater String Quartet
The Bridgewater String Quartet is a professional Wedding String Quartet based in Manchester, performing regularly for Weddings and Events across the Northwest of England including Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Liverpool and North Wales.
Additional discounts for mid-week bookings!
Weddings
Specialists in live music for ceremonies
The Bridgewater String Quartet and Trio are specialists in providing live music for wedding ceremonies and receptions.
Our wide experience furnishes us with not only performance skills but also discretionary qualities of coordination, timing and subtlety. These are especially vital within the delicate dynamic of a service. We can provide music for all aspects of your wedding day from your ceremony, drinks reception, wedding breakfast to your after dinner entertainment.
Bringing your special event to live
The Bridgewater String Quartet takes pride in using only the finest quality musicians from world-class orchestras, we deliver a reliable service of the highest quality. Whether it is a new product launch, charity ball, private party, awards ceremony or a company’s drinks reception or dinner, our experience ensures a relaxed environment.
With one of the UK’s largest repertoire lists, we have music for all tastes and can even accommodate special themes.
Talented & Professional
All members are graduates of the UK’s top music conservatoires and have a wealth of experience performing at Weddings and Events. As well as private functions, The Bridgewater String Quartet have collectively performed at many prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Philharmonic Hall, London Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Royal Festival Hall. Photography © Tom Bangbala
Alison
VIOLINIST
Naomi
VIOLINIST
Aimée
VIOLIST
Ilona
CELLIST
The Bridgewater String Quartet and Trio members each have a regular deputy of equal calibre. We also work with a small pool of talented and professional musicians.
All musicians graduated from top music conservatoires across the UK. This guarantees that you will always receive a top-class performance on your big day.
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Testimonials
Alison was a great help with answering any questions we had prior to the day. They had a huge repertoire to choose from, so big that we left the final 15 songs to the band to choose from as we couldn’t decide, and they didn’t disappoint…
…For anyone debating in having a string quartet, I couldn’t recommend these guys enough but the difference live music makes is unbelievable. You’ll never regret hiring the band, but you’ll always regret not hiring them.
Sensational! What incredibly talented and genuinely lovely people. I hired them for my wedding and it was one of the most amazing part of my day. Price is really good value for what you get. They even learned to play Thunderstruck by AC/DC just for my bridal entrance! Outstanding! I lived my Bridgerton dream. All my guest loved them. Thank you so much 🥰
Communication from Alison in the lead up to our special day was excellent, and the performance on the day will remain with us forever, it was just beautiful.
This was without doubt the best ‘extra’ part to our wedding, and if you’re soft like me, beware…the music is likely to make you cry throughout the event! Thank you so much for being a part of our special day, I cannot recommend you enough! X
Bridgewater string quartet are a must have for any wedding!
They are so easy to deal with and can turn their beautiful music to any song.
They added to the magic of our daughters wedding – as background music we saw guests humming along to well known songs and, they were ready to fill in the silence when the bridal entrance music failed to start on time.
Totally recommend these amazing musicians for any event as they can adapt to all events big and small
Thank you making our daughters wedding even more special !
Our hearts are absolutely bursting with pride and gratitude for The Bridgewater String Quartet. Words simply cannot describe how amazing you were at our wedding in August 2023 and for the months and months leading towards the day itself. Thank you to each of you for making our wedding day so perfect for us all, especially my beautiful Mum.
…Throughout all correspondence, Alison was wonderful and unbelievably helpful. Not only did she source the music for our church ceremony, she also arranged for multiple lesser-known pieces to be composed for us. Each and every one of which was performed perfectly and brought our families to tears.
…Thank you so so so much for making our wedding day so exceptionally personal & memorable. With love and gratitude always xxx
Excellent service from start to finish. Alison was always very attentive and fast to respond to all requests and questions. She even arranged a couple of pieces I had written for string quartet to play as a surprise on the day. The musicians on the day were all of the highest quality and they received many compliments from my guests; most significantly the professionals among them. I would not hesitate to book the Bridgewater Quartet for any occasion as the final touch to the ambiance. Thank you so much for making our day so special!
I hired Bridgewater for my wedding day and it honestly MADE the day. Not only are they the sweetest people on earth they play so well. All of my guests were absolutely blown away and it made the world of difference to my entrance down the aisle. They have a huge range of music to choose from and even accept suggestions if you really want a song that isn’t on their list too!
Wish I could do the whole day again to watch them, they went down a hit!
Couldn’t recommend more
We just wanted to say thank you to you and the rest of the trio you really made our wedding day. Us and our guests loved the music, we really can’t imagine what our day would have been like without you there.
The music sounded incredible during the ceremony and drinks reception and we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you to anyone! Thank you for making the whole process so seamless, you’ve been a dream to work with x
What can I say! I can’t thank you enough for being so amazing you helped elevate our day to another level, I’m still on magical whirlwind I don’t want to get off. I’m sorry I didn’t get to give you a big hug and thank you in person. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for your amazing performance at our wedding, it was just perfect and everyone really loved your string quartet. My mum was just so happy that you were performing as she loved you guys and mentions you every time I see her. Thank you for helping make our day and our guest’s day extra classy and special.
Videos
Por Una Cabeza (Gardel). MTS
Canon in D Major (Pachelbel). MTS
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 1. Allegro moderato (Bach).MTS
Click here to see our other videos and shorts on YouTube
Music
Canon in D – Pachelbel
Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
Air from Suite No.1 – J.S.Bach
The Queen of Sheba – Handel
Irish Sherry Suite – Traditional
Divertimento in F – Mozart
Let’s Do It – Cole Porter
Makin’ Whoopee – Donaldson
Makin’ Whoopee – Donaldson
Moon River – Mancini
Somebody Loves Me – Gershwin
Por Una Cabeza – Gardel
Get in touch
We’d love to hear from you
The Bridgewater String Quartet is one of Britain’s finest ensembles, performing throughout Northwest of England including Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire and Liverpool.
Phone: 07754 522595
