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William Routledge - Castlerigg stone circle

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M U S I C​​

 

Offering flexible entertainment options

I can offer a wide variety of musical entertainment options: solo cello / cello duet, string quartet, string quartet with soprano, string chamber orchestra.​ Each of my groups have developed a repertoire to suit different performance scenarios:

 

  • Solo cello / cello duet - perfect for a wedding ceremony, birthday party, private concert, or other intimate event.
  • Orphic Trio - The Orphic Trio champion contemporary Baltic composers whilst maintaining a repertoire that includes well known and well loved trio music. In September 2014 the Orphic Trio toured Lithuania performing music by Shostakovich, Senderovas, Takemitsu, and Achron.
  • Grosvenor Quartet - Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from St. Martin-in-the-Fields in a concert with Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg, and the Choir of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 2013. Book for recitals/soirees/concert parties/corporate events requiring serious classical music.
  • Quartano - Beautiful combination of string quartet and soprano Elizabeth Slade. Offering a wide variety of lighter classical music, show tunes, opera arias and jazz standards... Book for wedding entertainment, garden parties, concerts.
  • Keld Ensemble - A string orchestra of between 10 and 20 musicians. Performed to critical acclaim at St. Martin-in-the-Fields April 2014 and '15. Collaborations with guitarists Giorgio Serci (2013, '14, & '15), and Giulio Tampalini, and DJ Francesca Lombardo in 2013. Providing a wide ranging repertoire from the famous Tchaikovsky and Elgar Serenades, to arrangements of music by Giorgio Serci, Jimmy Hendrix's 'Purple Haze' and Piazzola's 'Oblivion'. Book for concerts, concert parties, music festivals, education projects, corporate events.
     
Will Routledge at Art in Action 2011
Will Routledge with Quartano, 2011
Will Routledge with Keld Ensemble and Giorgio Serci, 2013
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