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About Emma

Experienced and professional solo violinist for weddings ceremonies & receptions; corporate events, anniversaries, proposals and more.

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Emma is a versatile, professional violinist with wide experience of live performance, touring, recording and performing music for weddings and functions of all types. She is an extremely experienced wedding musician specialising in solo violin for civil ceremonies, church ceremonies, drinks receptions, & wedding breakfasts as well as proposals, anniversaries and special occasions. Emma is very familiar with the format and special requirements of wedding ceremony music. She is also happy to advise on music choices and other details in the lead up to your wedding, with a songlist of 200+ titles ranging from pop to classical, Disney, rock, jazz, musicals, film and TV themes, Emma can also cater for special ceremony requests. On the event day Emma is always prompt, well presented and friendly and will provide all of the equipment required for her performance.

Emma

5 out of 5

24 verified reviews

Satisfaction

5.0

Professionalism

5.0

Communication

5.0

Punctuality

5.0

Emma's Reviews

5 out of 5

I was looking for a quote for a violinist for 05/10/24 for my wedding day in Gretna Green. After numerous searches I came across Emma’s page. I can honestly say she’s amazing. Emma has got back to me straight away with any queries I had. I changed my mind with song choices and she was happy to amend. I also asked if she could do a video of her on the violin to a certain song and she also did that for me no problem. I would recommend her to anybody. She turned up on my wedding day and the guests said she was great. I can’t wait to look at what the videographer captured as I missed most of her songs with so much going on. Thank you so much Emma. You have been fantastic and you’re such a lovely person :-)

Reply from Emma

1 month ago

Hi Tonya, Thanks so much for leaving a review. It really was my pleasure to play for you and all your lovely guests! Wishing you both all the very best. Emma xx

5 out of 5

Emma was fantastic ! All queries we had were responded to quickly . She has a large number of songs to request so we weren’t short of options. It was the icing on top of the cake to a truly memorable day! Highly recommend. Thanks again!

Reply from Emma

2 months ago

Hi James, Very many thanks for taking the time to leave a review - I really appreciate it! It was an absolute pleasure to play for your beautiful ceremony and I am so glad you both had a wonderful & memorable day! Emma x

5 out of 5

Emma stepped in the night before our wedding due to our other violinist cancelling. We are so grateful that she was able to play at our big day. Emma just picked up the music straight away that we’d requested and played so wonderfully. All of our guests loved the music and it made our wedding feel even more special. Thank you.

Reply from Emma

2 months ago

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review Rachel! It really was a pleasure and I’m so glad that you and your guests enjoyed the music ☺️🎻x

5 out of 5

Emma was an amazing addition to our wedding ceremony. The music was stunning and she even fulfilled my request by playing my grandads song as I walked down the aisle. Highly recommend if you’re looking for live music at your wedding! Amazing. Thanks again x

Reply from Emma

3 months ago

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review Abby! It really was a pleasure to play for your ceremony and I'm very glad you enjoyed the music!x

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We both want to thank yourself and David for your perfect performance at our Wedding Ceremony.

Your beautiful music certainly made the night perfect.

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Emma's Song list

Pop

10,000 Hours - Justin Bieber

Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows (from Shrek)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye

A Million Dreams - from The Greatest Showman

Always - Bon Jovi

Apache - The Shadows

A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

All of Me - John Legend

Always A Woman To Me - Billy Joel

And I Love Her - The Beatles

Annie's song – John Denver

Birds if a Feather - Billie Eilish

Can't Help Falling In Love

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

Consider Yourself – from Oliver

Dancing Queen - ABBA

Despacito - Luis Fonci & Daddy Yankee

Dirty Old Town - Ewan Macoll/The Pogues

Don't Look Back in Anger (Oasis)

Downtown - Petula Clark

Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles

Enchanted - Taylor Swift

Eternal Flame - The Bangles

Everything I Do I Do It for You – Bryan Adams (from Robin Hood)

Every Breath You Take - The Police

Everlasting Love - Natalie Cole

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac

Falling Like The Stars - James Arthur

Fantasy - Mariah Carey

Fields of Gold, Sting/Eva Cassidy

From This Moment On - Shania Twain

Get Happy

Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA

Give Me Everything- Bridgerton

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

Halo - Beyonce

Happy Together - The Turtles

Here, There and Everywhere- The Beatles

Hey Jude - The Beatles

Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes

How Long Will I Love You - Mike Scott/ Ellie Goulding

I'd Do Anything - Oliver

I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing - Aerosmith

I Have A Dream (ABBA)

I Guess I’m In Love - Clinton Kane

I Look To You. - Whitney Houston

I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) - The Proclaimers

In My Life - The Beatles

In The Summertime - Mungojerrie

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

It Had To Be You (Jazz)

I Think I Want To Marry You - Bruno Mars

I Will Alway Love You - Whitney Houston

I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash

Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel

Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberts Flack/ The Fugees

Kissing You - Des’ree

Lay All Your Love On Me - ABBA

Linger - The Cranberries

Living On A Prayer - Bon Jovi

LOVE - Nat King Cole

Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding

Love Story - Taylor Swift

Love of My Life - Queen

Mamma Mia - ABBA

Material Girl - Madonna

Memories - Maroon 5

Michelle - The Beatles

Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney

My Love - Sia

My Way - Frank Sinatra

Nine Million Bicycles - Katie Melua

Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You - George Benson

Ocean Eyes - Billy Eilish

One Day Like This - Elbow

One Last Time - Ariana Grande

Penny Lane - The Beatles

Perfect - Ed Sheeran

Photograph - Ed Sheeran

Piano Man - Billy Joel

The Power of Love - Jennifer Rush

Pointless - Lewis Capaldi

Rainbow Connection (from The Muppets)

Rewrite The Stars - Zendaya, Zac Efron

River Flows In You - Yiruma

Schindler's List Theme

Sealed With A Kiss (Brian Hyland/ Jason Donovan)

She – Charles Asnavour/ Elvis Costello (featured in Notting Hill)

Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay

Slipping Through My Fingers - ABBA (Mamma Mia)

Somewhere Only We Know - Keane

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Stand By Me - Ben E King

Sunny Side of The Street

Super Trouper - ABBA

Sweet Child if Mine - Guns n Rose

Take Me To The Church - Hozier

Take A Chance On Me - ABBA

Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

That's Amore – Harry Warren

The Climb - Miley Cyrus

Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

This Will Be An Everlasting Love - Love Affair

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin

Titanium - David Guetta

Turning Page - Sleeping At Last

Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters

Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez

Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

Video Games - Lana del Ray

Vincent - Don Mclean

Voulez Vous- ABBA

Wake Me Up - Avicii

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

We’ve Only Just Begun - The Carpenters

What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

Whatever - Oasis

When I Fall In Love

When I Need You – Leo Sayer/ Celine Dion

Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift/ Bridgerton

Wings - Birdy

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

Wonderwall - Oasis

Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus

Yellow - Coldplay

Yesterday - The Beatles

You Are The Reason - Calum Scott

Young and Beautiful - Lana del Ray

Your Song - Elton John

You’re My Best Friend - Queen

You're Still The One - Shania Twain

You Raise Me Up - Westlife

Film & TV, Disney & Show Music

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (Cinderella)

All I Ask of You (Phantom of the Opera)

Alice in Wonderland Waltz

A Whole New World - from Aladdin

Beauty and The Beast/ Tale As Old As Time - Alan Menken

Be Our Guest (Beauty & The Beast)

Beyond The Sea

Binary Sunsets Theme from Star Wars

Bring Me Sunshine - Morecambe and Wise

Can You Feel The Love Tonight (The Lion King)

Candle On The Water (Pete’s Dragon)

Castle On A Cloud - from Les Miserables

Cheek to Cheek

Chim Chimeree (Mary Poppins)

Colours of the Wind (from Pocahontas)

Concerning Hobbits (from The Hobbit)

Evenstar (Lord if the Rings)

Favourite Things (from The Sound of Music)

Feed The Birds - Mary Poppins

Friends Theme (I’ll be there for you)

Game of Thrones

Get Happy - from Little Voice

Glasgow Love Theme - Craig Armstrong (from Love Actually)

Going Home - from Local Hero

Gollum’s Song ( Lord of the Rings)

Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter

High Noon - Tex Ritter

How Far I'll Go (Moana)

I Do It For You from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

In Dreams (Lord of the Rings)

Into The West (Lord of the Rings)

It Had To Be You- When Harry Met Sally

I See The Light (from Tangled)

Il Postino (theme)

Jurassic Park Theme

Kiss The Girl - Little Mermaid

La Vie En Rose - Edith Piaf

Let It Go (Frozen)

L-O-V-E- Parent Trap/ The Vampire Diaries

Makin’ Whoopee - The Fabulous Baker Boys

Married Life (Theme from Up)

Maybe from Annie

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion

Moon River – Henry Mancini (featured in Breakfast at Tiffany's)

Married Life (theme from Up)

Music of The Night (Phantom of the opera)

Noble Maiden Fair from Brave

Once Upon A Dream

Part of Your World (Little Mermaid)

Pirates of The Caribbean Main Theme (He’s A Pirate)

Promontory - Last of the Mohicans

Love theme from Love Story

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

Rewrite the Stars - The Greatest Showman

River Flows In You - Twilight

Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Harold Arlen

Speak Softly Love (from The Godfather)

Star Wars Theme - John Williams

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The King of the Golden Hall (Lord of the Rings)

Think of Me (Phantom of the Opera)

Turning Page - from Twilight Saga

Por una Cabeza – Carlos Gardel (featured in True Lies)

Prima Donna (from Phantom of the Opera)

Pure Imagination (from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory)

Rewrite The Stars from Greatest Showman

Under Your Spell (from Buffy The Vampire Slayer)

When You Wish Upon A Star( from Pinocchio)

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Phantom of the Opera)

You’ve Got A Friend In Me - Toy Story

Classical

A La Luz de los Faroles - Mendizabal

Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber

Andante - Gluck

Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No.5 - Haydn

Ave Maria

Arioso - JS Bach

Barcarolle - Offenbach

Bist du bei Mir - JS Bach

Bridal March - Wagner

Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman - Offenbach

Canon in D - Pachelbel

Chanson de Matin - Elgar

Chiquilin de Bachin - Piazzolla

Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves - Verdi

Clair de Lune - Debussy

El Choclo - Villoldo

El Dia Me Quieras - Carlos Gardel

Flower Duet - Delibes

The Four Seasons Themes - Vivaldi

Habanera from Carmen - Bizet

Humoresque - Dvorak

Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni

Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring - JS Bach

La Donna E Mobile - Verdi

Meditation - Massanet

Minuet in G Major - JS Bach

Minuet - Boccherini

Morning from Peer Gynt - Grieg

Meditation from Thais - Massanet

Nocturne - Mendelssohn

Ode To Joy - Beethoven

O For The Wings of a Dove - Mendelssohn

On Wings of Song - Mendelssohn

Plaisir D'Amour - Martini

Polovtsian Dance - Borodin

Por Una Cabeza - Carlos Gardel

Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner

Romantic Piece - Dvorak

Salut D'Amour - Elgar

Rondeau - Mouret

Te Deum - Charpentier

To A Wild Rose - Edward Macdowell

Tu Devicto - Charpentier

Trumpet Voluntary - J.Clarke

Sheep May Safely Graze - JS Bach

Salut D’Amour - Elgar

Selected movements from Water Music and Fireworks - Handel

Wachet auf - JS Bach

Trumpet Tune - Purcell

Spring - Vivaldi

Largo from Winter - Vivaldi

Wedding March - Mendelssohn

Wedding March - Wagner

Bollywood

Teri Meri

Tum hi ho

Tere liye veer zaara

kal ho na ho

Banjaara

Humko Humise Chura Lo

Folk and Traditional Tunes ( a small selection - many more possible!)

Amazing Grace

Ashokan Farewell

Bonny At Morn

Blow The Wind Southerly

Cushie Butterfield

Drowsy Maggie

Danny Boy

Fields of Athenry

Flower of Quern

Galopede

The Girl I Left Behind Me

Hunting The Hare

I’ll Tell Me Ma

Londonderry Air

Mairi's Wedding

Mrs Jamieson's Favourite

My Love is Like A Red,Red Rose

Scarborough Fair

Skye Boat Song

Simple Gifts

Timour The Tartar

The Black Velvet Band

The Cinderella Waltz

The Girl I Left Behind Me

The Greenwood Tree

The Oyster Girl

The Pirate's Waltz

The Water of Tyne

The Wild Rover

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Whiskey In The Jar

Christmas

Away in A Manger

Ding Dong Merrily On High

Fairytale of New York

First Noel

Frosty the Snowman

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Here Comes Santa Claus

The Holly and the Ivy

In The Bleak Midwinter

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

I Saw Three Ships

Jingle Bell Rock

Jingle Bells

Joy To The World

It's Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas

Let It Snow

O Christmas Tree

O holy Night

O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Rocking Around the Christmas Tree

Santa Claus is Coming To Town

Silent Night

Sleigh Ride

The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Christmas Song (Chestnuts)

Winter Wonderland

Emma's Prices

Last updated: 2024

Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.

Performance duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£200
Up to 1 hour	£250
Up to 2 hours	£300
Up to 3 hours	£375

Surprise Violinist!

A short performance of up to 15 minutes to surprise a loved one, for example at a restaurant for a special celebration meal; at home or in a special location of your choice for a birthday, anniversary or romantic surprise!

£187.50

Wedding ceremony

This includes music before the service begins as guests are getting seated, entrance music; music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave.

£250

Welcome Drinks

Live violin music to welcome your guests to your wedding pre-ceremony.

£250

Drinks Reception

A one and a half hour booking for drinks reception/ photographs.

£275

Ceremony & Drinks reception

A 2 hour booking to cover: Music as guests are getting seated in ceremony room; entrance music, signing the register and exit music followed by music during drinks reception/ photographs.

£300

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

Emma combines an excellent professional standard of musical performance with a friendly and helpful personality! She will do everything in the run up to your event to be helpful and efficient and perform to the highest standard on the day.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

Durham Castle; Wynyard Hall; Bowburn Hall; Shotton Hall; Hardwick Hall; Lumley Castle; Redworth Hall; Healey Barn; Middleton Lodge; Otterburn Castle; Le Petit Chateau; Beamish Hall; South Causey Inn; Beamish Park Hotel; Eshott Hall; Ellingham Hall; Newton Hall.

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

Solo violin and jazz violinists.

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

Emma performs at festivals and venues all over the UK as well as touring in Europe. In 2018 she was nominated in the prestigious British Jazz Awards. She has also performed live on both radio and television.

Do you have different line-up options?

I perform solo violin for civil and church wedding ceremonies, drinks receptions, pre-ceremony welcome & wedding breakfasts as well as all kinds of other occasions such as proposals, anniversaries, funerals, family celebrations.

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

We always try our best to be flexible to help ensure your event runs as smoothly as possible. If timings change slightly in the run up to the event just let us know.

How much time do you need to set up?

I will arrive 30-45 minutes before I am due to start playing which allows ample time to set up.

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

Yes you can choose any pieces from the song-list. Wherever possible I will also accommodate song choices that are not on the current song-list. If you have a request that doesn't appear on the song-list just ask and I will let you know if it is possible.

Do you bring all the equipment you need to perform?

Yes, absolutely! I bring my own instrument to play acoustically as-well as an acoustic amplifier and specialist violin microphone where amplification is needed.

Can you learn specific pieces before the event?

If there is a special song you'd like me to learn I am happy to do this for you. I always check out any new requests first to make sure they will work/ sound right on solo violin and will let you know. When time allows I will also record a short sample video so that you can check it out for yourself before deciding.

Musicianship

Genres:

Classical, Jazz, Folk, Pop, Rock, Electronic, Film / TV music, 1920s era music, 1930s era music, 1940s era music, Swing, Gypsy jazz, Easy listening, Light music, Acoustic, Covers, Vintage, French music, Christmas, Traditional church music, Contemporary Christian, Baroque, Musical theatre, Contemporary classical, Classical crossover, Medieval music, Bluegrass, Country, Traditional English folk, Traditional Irish folk, Traditional Scottish folk, Top 40, Americana, Classic rock, Pop rock, Indie, Scottish music, Tango, Opera, Folk rock, Blues, Ambient pop, Britpop, Alternative rock, World music, 1950s era music, 1960s era music, 1970s era music, 1980s era music, 1990s era music

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Instruments:

Violin, Fiddle, Electric violin

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Event types:

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

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Other skills:

Fluent improviser, Fluent sight-reader, Instrumental teaching, Community music worker, Theory teaching, Animateur

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