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About Bethany

5 star rated cellist with over 20 years experience in providing live music for Weddings, parties and corporate events.

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Newark

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Bethany graduated in 2003 with a degree in music performance and has worked as a freelance performer and teacher ever since. To date, Bethany has had a varied performing career playing with Orchestras across the East Midlands as well as Chamber ensembles and solo engagements. After acting as a deputy cellist for string trios and quartets for several years, Bethany started running Bethany Morris Music in 2014. The aim was to provide high quality music at an affordable price for smaller weddings and functions. Bethany performs as a soloist, using professional backing tracks to accompany. This offers an affordable alternative to hiring a larger ensemble and is perfect for smaller venues and tighter budgets. Over the last couple of years Bethany has played in some of the countries most beautiful Wedding venues including Chatsworth house in Derbyshire, Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire and Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. With a wide choice of repertoire including popular classics as well as jazz, pop covers and film music, Bethany is able to offer the perfect accompaniment to your special day.

Bethany

5 out of 5

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Bethany's Reviews

5 out of 5

Bethany was a perfect choice for our wedding. She played all the music we had requested, she was very good at communicating with us prior to the wedding, she was self sufficient on the day which was one less thing to worry about and she was very professional. I would highly recommend

5 out of 5

Beth was a very competent musician and performed very well at my Mother's 90th Birthday party. I would strongly recommend her for any celebrations you are planning

5 out of 5

Bethany was absolutely brilliant! Helpful, relaxed, excellent communication, collaborated well with our pianist & played beautifully! Very helpful too for music ideas. Fantastic!

5 out of 5

Bethany was the perfect entertainment for our Client Drinks Reception at Elton Hall. Bethany was professional, she played the Cello beautifully and we have received lots of compliments from our clients regarding this event. Thank you Bethany, I will be recommending you in the future.

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A quick message to say a big thank you for your beautiful playing last week. You received a lot of lovely comments from friends and family who thoroughly enjoyed your playing. You really helped to create the atmosphere we wanted.

Thank you for the wonderful music during our ceremony. It was beautiful and a real talking point for our guests

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Bethany's Song list

Popular/ Film music:

21 guns – green day

A million dreams (from The greatest showman) – Pasek, Paul

A sky full of stars – Coldplay

A thousand years – Christina Perri

A whole new world (from Aladdin) - Menken

Accidentally in love – Counting Crowes

Addicted to you – Avicci

All about you – McFly

All of me – John Legend

All the small things – Blink 182

At Last – Etta James

At the beginning (from Anastasia) - Stephen Flaherty

Beautiful (from Guardian:The lonely and great God) - Crush

Beautiful Day – U2

Beautiful in white – Shane Filan

Beautiful things – Benson Boone

Better half of me – Tom Walker

Better together – Luke Coombs

Biblical – Calum Scot

Birds of a feather – Billie Eilish

Bittersweet symphony – The verve

Blinding lights – The Weekend

Bloodsport – Sleep Token

Can you feel the love tonight (from The Lion King) - John/Rice

Can’t get you out of my head – Kylie Minogue

Can’t help falling in love – Elvis Presley

Castle on the hill – Ed Sheeran

Chandelier – Sia

Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol

Cherry Wine – Hozier

Come away with me – Norah Jones

Concerning hobbits (from The Lord of the rings) - Howard Shore

Cosmic Love – Florence Welch

Crazy in love (50 shades version from 50 shades of Grey) - Beyonce

Cry me a river – Justin Timberlake

Dancing in the moonlight – Sherman Kelly

Dancing on my own – Robyn

Dancing Queen – ABBA

Decode (from Twilight) - Paramour

Detectorists (theme from The Detectorists) - Johnny Flynn

Diamonds – Rhianna

Don’t know why – Norah Jones

Dream a little dream – The Mammas and the Pappas

Everything I do (I do it for you) from Robin Hood, Prince of thieves – Bryan Adams

Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac

Feeling Good – Muse

Fields of gold – Sting

Fireflies – Owl City

Flowers – Miley Cyrus

Fly me to the moon – Frank Sinatra

Girl on fire – Alicia Keys

Go the distance (from Hercules) - Menken

Golden Hour – Lawson/Lawson

Greatest Day – Take That

Grenade – Bruno Mars

Grow old with me – Tom Odell

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

Halo – Beyonce

Havana – Cabello

Have I told you lately – Van Morrison

Heaven – Bryan Adams

Heaven – Avicci

Helium – Sia

Hopeless Wanderer – Mumford and Sons

How deep is your love – Calvin Harris

How long will I love you – Ellie Goulding

I don’t want to miss a thing (from Armaggedon) - Aerosmith

I get to love you – Ruelle

I see the light (from Tangled) - Menken

I will always love you (from The Bodyguard) - Whitney Houston

I’ll be – Edwin McCain

I’ll be there for you (from Friends) - The Rembrandts

If I ain’t got you – Alicia Keys

If I were a boy – Beyonce

Imagine – John Lennon

Interstellar theme – Zimmer

Iris – Goo Goo Dolls

Isn’t she lovely – Stevie Wonder

Just the way you are – Bruno Mars

Killing me softly – Roberta Flack

Kiss from a rose – Seal

Kiss me – Sixpence none the richer

Kissing you – Desree

La vie en rose – Edith Piaf

Landslide – Fleetwood Mac

Let it be – Lennon/McCartney

Let you love me – Rita Ora

Like a prayer – Madonna

Love – Lana Del Rae

Love me like you do (from 50 shades of grey) - Ellie Goulding

Lover – Taylor Swift

Make you feel my love – Bob Dylan

Marry You – Bruno Mars

Moon River (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s) - Mancini

My Immortal – Evanescence

Never Enough (from The Greatest Showman) - Pasek/Paul

No Surprises – Radiohead

Now we are free (from Gladiator) - Zimmer

One day like this – Elbow

One last time – Ariana Grande

Ordinary – Alex Warren

Ordinary People – John Legend

Part of your world (from The Little mermaid) - Menken

Perfect – Ed Sheeran

Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan

Pokemon Theme (from Pokemon)

Rainbow – Kacey Musgraves

Rather be – Clean Bandit

Rewrite the stars (from The greatest Showman) - Pasek/Paul

Rise up – Andra Day

Rule the world (from Stardust) - Take That

Run (Leona Lewis version) - Snow Patrol

Send me on my way – Rusted Root

Shallow (from A star is born) - Lady Gaga

Shape of my heart (from Leon) – Sting

She (from Notting Hill) – Elvis Costello

She wolf (falling to pieces) - David Guetta/Sia

She’s the one – Robbie Williams

Signed, sealed, delivered – Stevie Wonder

Simply the best – Tina Turner

Skyfall (from James Bond: Skyfall) - Adele

Sleeping at last – Turning page (from Twilight) - Ryan O Neil

Someone like you – Adele

Something in the heavens – Lewis Capaldi

Something just like this – Coldplay and the Chainsmokers

Somewhere only we know – Keane

Somewhere over the rainbow (Ariana grande version) -

Songbird – Fleetwood Mac

Stand by me – Ben E King

Stay with me – Sam Smith

Steal the show (from Elemental) - LAUV

Summertime – Gershwin

Sunflower – Post Malone

Sweet Nothing – Calvin Harris/Florence Welch

Symphony – Clean Bandit

Tale as old as time (from Beauty and the beast) - Menken

Teardrop – Massive Attack

Thank u, next – Ariana Grande

The one – Kodaline

The vow – Ruth Cunningham

Thinking out loud – Ed Sheeran

This love – Taylor Swift

This will be (an everlasting love) - Natalie cole

Titanium – David Guetta

To build a home – Cinematic Orchestra

Use Somebody – Kings of Leon

Wake me up – Avicci

We found love – Calvin Harri/Rhianna

We have all the time in the world – Louis Armstrong

What a wonderful world – Louis Armstrong

What makes you beautiful – One Direction

When love takes over – David Guetta/Kelly Rowland

When we were young – Adele

Wildest Dreams – Taylor Swift

Wings – Birdy

Without you – David Guetta/Usher/Taio Cruz

Writings on the wall – Sam Smith

XO – John Meyer

Yellow – Coldplay

Yesterday – Lennon/McCartney

You are the reason – Calum Scot

You’ll be in my heart (from Tarzan) - Phil Collins

You’ll necer walk alone – Gene Pitney

You’re still the one – Shania Twain

Young and beautiful (from The Great Gatsby) - Lana Del Rae

Your song – Elto John

Folk/ World

Decide – Piazzolla arr Johnstone (cello only)

Irish Medley

The Irish Washerwoman – The Blackthorne stick

La Cumparsita – Rodriguez

Medativo – Piazzolla arr Johnstone

Classical:

'Adagio' from Concerto in C major - Haydn

'Adagio' from Concerto in D major - Haydn

Air on the G string - Bach

‘Arioso’ from Cantata 156 – Bach

Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba – Handel

Auf Flugen des Gesanges - Mendelssohn

Ave Maria – Bach/ Gounod

Ave Maria – Schubert

Bass dance - Warlock

‘Berceuse’ from the Dolly suite – Faure

Bist du bei mir – Bach

Bridal chorus – Wagner

Canon – Pachelbel

Chanson de nuit – Elgar

Concerto grosso in D minor - Vivaldi

Allegro - Adagio - Finale

Czardas – Monti

Dance of the blessed spirits – Gluck

Danza Espanola - Grandos arr Johnstone

Due Tramonti - Einaudi

Eine Kleine nacht music – Mozart

Allegro – Romanza – Menuetto – Rondo

‘Ent’racte’ from Carmen – Bizet

The Fireworks music (selections from) – Handel

La Paix – La Rejouissance

Flower duet – Delibes

Gavotte – Gossec

‘Gigue’ from suite in D major – Bach

Grande Valse brillant – Chopin

‘Grand march’ from Aide – Verdi

Gymnopedie No. 1 – Satie

‘Habenera’ from Carmen – Bizet

Humoresque – Dvorak

‘If with all your hearts’ from Elijah – Mendelssohn

Jesu, joy of man’s desiring – Bach

‘La dona e mobile’ from Rigoletto – Verdi

‘Largo’ from Xerxes – Handel

Laudate Dominum – Mozart

Londonderry air – Trad Irish

‘Meditation’ from Thais – Massenet

‘Minuet’ from concerto grosso in B min – Boyce

‘Nimrod’ from Enigma variations – Elgar

Nocturn No. 1 – Chopin arr Johnstone

‘O mio babbino caro’ from Gianni Schicchi – Puccini

O perfect love – Barnby

‘Preludio’ from Sonata 6 for cello and piano – Vivaldi

'Romance' from the Gadfly suite - Shostakovich

‘Rondeau’ from Sinfonies de fanfares – Mauret

Salut d’amour – Elgar

‘Sarabande’ from suite in D minor for piano – Handel

Serenade – Haydn arr Johnstone

Sheep may safely graze – Bach

Sicillienne – Paradis

Sonata in F major – Marcello

Largo – Allegro

Sonata in G major for Viola da Gamba - Bach

Adagio - Allegro

Song without words – Mendelssohn

Standchen – Schubert

Suite No. 1 in G major – Bach (Unaccompanied)

Prelude – Allemande – Courante – Sarabande Minuet I – Minuet II – Gigue

Swan, The – Saint Saens

The girl with the flaxen hair – Debussy

Traumerei - Schumann

Trumpet voluntary – Clarke

‘Waltz’ from Coppelia – Delibes

‘Waltz’ from Sleeping Beauty – Tchaikovsky

The Water music (selections from) – Handel

Air – Bouree – Hornpipe - Finale

Wedding March – Mendelssohn

Easy listening/ Jazz/ Shows:

Aint misbehavin’ – Waller/ Brooks

Anything goes – Porter

Bess, you is my woman from Porgy and Bess – Gershwin

Blue Tango – Anderson

Chrysanthemum, The – Joplin

Doin’ the crazy walk – Duke Ellington

Dream a little dream of me – The mamas and the papas

Easy Winners – Joplin

Entertainer, The – Joplin

Embraceable you – Gershwin

Fiddle Faddle – Anderson

Fig leaf rag – Joplin

Fly me to the moon – Sinatra

I got rhythm – Gershwin

It ain’t necessarily so – Gershwin

It’s de-lovely – Porter

It had to be you – Jones

I’ve got you under my skin – Porter

Jazz pizzicato – Anderson

Let’s call the whole thing off – Gershwin

Let there be love – Nat King Cole

Lullaby of Birdland – Weiss/ Shearing

Magnetic rag – Joplin

Makin Whoopee – Kahn/ Donaldson

Maple leaf rag – Joplin

Moon river – Mancini

New rag – Joplin

Night and Day – Porter

Oh, Lady be good – Gershwin

Over the rainbow – Arlen

Pennies from heaven – Johnson

Ragtime dance – Joplin

Smoke gets in your eyes – Harbach/ Kahn

Summertime – Gershwin

Sweet Lorraine – Burwell/ Parish

S’wonderful – Gershwin

Take five – Desmond

Take the A train – Strayhorne

They can’t take that away from me – Gershwin

What a wonderful world – Weiss/ Theile

Bethany's Prices

Last updated: 2025

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Duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£50
Up to 1 hour	£287.50
Up to 2 hours	£393.75
Up to 3 hours	£440

Drinks reception

Bethany is a classically trained solo cellist with over 20 years experience in delivering high quality music for Weddings, parties and events. She has played at events across the country and in some of the most prestigious venues including Chatsworth house in Derbyshire, Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire and Lincoln Cathedral. She plays on a classical cello using a pick up to amplify for larger venues and outdoor events. Bethany has a wide choice of repertoire to choose from, with Classical favourites, contemporary, pop, rock and film music on the list. Professional, piano backing tracks are used to accompany to give clients a quality, well rounded performance and relaxed feel to their event. All backing tracks are played through a PA system provided by Bethany. All electrical equipment is PAT tested and accompanied by a current certificate. The use of all equipment is included in each quote. Bethany also has PLI. This package gives you 1 hours live music to accompany your drinks reception. Additional time can be booked at £85 per hour. For bookings of more than 1 hour Bethany plays in sets of 55 minutes having a 10 minute break after each set. Bethany has a wide choice of repertoire to choose from including Classical, Contemporary pieces as well as pop covers, meaning that you can hand pick your perfect playlist for your guests.

£260

Ceremony only

Bethany is a classically trained solo cellist with over 20 years experience in delivering high quality music for Weddings, parties and events. She has played at events across the country and in some of the most prestigious venues including Chatsworth house in Derbyshire, Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire and Lincoln Cathedral. She plays on a classical cello using a pick up to amplify for larger venues and outdoor events. Bethany has a wide choice of repertoire to choose from, with Classical favourites, contemporary, pop, rock and film music on the repertoire list. Bethany is also happy to source new music for those key moments in the ceremony should your chosen piece not be on the list. Professional, piano backing tracks are used to accompany to give clients a quality, well rounded performance and relaxed feel to their event. All backing tracks are played through a PA system provided by Bethany. All electrical equipment is PAT tested and accompanied by a current certificate. The use of all equipment is included in each quote. Bethany also has PLI.

£287.50

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

I offer a very personal performance for each of my clients, playing pieces that they have personally selected for the day. I offer a broad range of music to choose from with everything from Classical favourites to Contemporary pieces and pop covers, so there is really something for everyone to enjoy.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

I have performed in venues all over the country: Chatsworth house, Woburn Abbey, Stubton Hall, Elsham Hall to name a few.

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

I am a classically trained musician but I listen to a broad range of music, Classical, jazz, world, pop, and draw from influences across the board.

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

I have repeat bookings for the RHS playing at their annual Flower shows.

Do you have different line-up options?

I offer solo cello with a choice of either professional backing tracks or live piano to accompany. I work regularly with pianist Jane Olson who provides this service and knows all of my repertoire. This choice offers clients flexibility in their booking when taking into account budget and the space available.

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

There is a certain amount of flexibility with every booking. My aim is to make your day run as smoothly as possible. If timings change in the run up to the event then just let me know.

How much time do you need to set up?

I always arrive 60 minutes before the start time to set up and warm up before guests start to arrive.

Can I pick the pieces you play from the set list?

A set list and Special requests form are sent out 6 weeks before your booking for you to pick your playlist. You can pick as much or as little as you want and I am always on hand to give advice where needed. If there is a special piece that you would like that isn't on the list then I am always happy to source new material for a booking.

Do you bring all the equipment you need to perform?

I carry all the equipment needed for a performance. This includes speakers to play the backing tracks through, a pick up for the cello if needed in larger venues and electric piano if the live piano option is chosen. All electrical equipment is PAT tested and accompanied with a current certificate.

Can you learn specific pieces before the event?

If there is a special song that you would like me to play on the day that is not on my set list then I am happy to source music for the occasion, as long as a suitable arrangement can be found.

Musicianship

Genres:

Classical, Ambient pop

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Instruments:

Cello

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Event types:

Wedding, Wedding proposal, Funeral / Memorial service, Church service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Concert, Recording session, Theatre / Show, Cruise, Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve

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Other skills:

Instrumental teaching, Theory teaching, Fluent sight-reader

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