Biography
The Blue Sky Atlanta String Quartet is an exceptional ensemble, boasting some of Atlanta's finest professionals with a remarkable combined experience of over 100 years in performance. Their expertise in creating beautiful harmonies with violin, viola, and cello adds an elegant touch to events, promising to create lasting memories.
One of the quartet's superpowers is its ability to seamlessly cover a wide range of music, from classical compositions by old-world masters like Bach and Vivaldi to modern hits by Imagine Dragons and Taylor Swift. This versatility allows them to cater to diverse musical preferences, making them an ideal choice for a variety of events.
The quartet's extensive music library, including classical, pop, traditional wedding songs, classic rock, American songbook, and Christmas carols, offers something for everyone. This makes them suitable for wedding ceremonies, cocktail hours, receptions, business events, and holiday parties. Their flexibility is further highlighted by their willingness to learn and prepare string-quartet arrangements for special requests, even creating custom arrangements with advance notice.
The traditional instrumentation of cello, viola, and 1st and 2nd violins contributes to the quartet's stunning and full sound quality, ensuring a captivating and elegant ambiance for events. The ensemble's proven diversity, accommodating both contemporary favorites and ethnic selections, makes them well-suited for a variety of occasions.
The quartet's willingness to accommodate special requests and create custom arrangements, combined with their vast repertoire, reflects their commitment to delivering a personalized and enjoyable musical experience. For those seeking refined and beautiful music to enhance their event, the Blue Sky Atlanta String Quartet makes an excellent choice. $1,750 - $3,000 depending on day, duration and location.
Song List
Blue Sky Atlanta String Quartet's Repertoire
(With enough advance notice we can have arrangements ready for your song if not listed below.)
Great wedding ceremony music – classical/instrumental
Air on the G String (Bach)
Appalachia Waltz (O’Connor)
Aria from “Xerxes” (Handel)
Arioso (Bach)
Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod)
Ave Maria (Caccini)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Bist Du Bei Mir (Bach)
Bridal Chorus (“Here Comes the Bride”) (Wagner)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Moderato (Bach)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Allegro (Bach)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Clair de Lune (Debussy)
Concerto No. 8 (Christmas Concerto) (Corelli)
Coro from Water Music (Handel)
Entrance of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
The Four Seasons, Spring, 1 (Allegro) (Vivaldi)
The Four Seasons, Spring, 3 (Allegro) (Vivaldi)
The Four Seasons, Winter, Largo (Vivaldi)
Highland Cathedral
Hornpipe from Water Music (Handel)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bac)
Let the Bright Seraphim (Handel)
O Mio Babbino Caro (Puccini)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
Pastoral Symphony (from The Messiah) (Handel)
La Rejouissance (Handel)
Rigaudon (Campra)
Rondeau (Mouret)
Selections from Water Music (Handel)
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
Sicut Cervus for String Quartet (Palestrina)
Sleepers, Awake (Bach)
Te Deum (Charpentier)
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
Waltz from Sleeping Beauty (Tschaikovsky)
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
Great wedding ceremony music – contemporary
All of Me
All You Need Is Love
Beautiful Day
Best Day of My Life
Do You Realize?
Edelweiss (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
Enchanted
The First Day of My Life
From This Moment
Grow Old With Me
Here Comes the Sun
Hallelujah
Here, There and Everywhere
How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
Hymne (Vangelis)
In My Life
Love Story
The Luckiest
Make You Feel My Love
Marry Me
Marry You
Moon River
On Top of the World
One Hand, One Heart
Only Time
Over the Rainbow
Our House
Perfect
The Prayer (Sager/Foster)
Shut Up and Dance
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Someone to Watch Over Me
Something
Story Book Love
Then
Thinking Out Loud
A Thousand Years
Unchained Melody
The Wedding from “Legends of the Fall”
What a Wonderful World
When You Say Nothing At All
Wildest Dreams
Wonderful Tonight
You Are So Beautiful
You Are the Best Thing
You Raise Me Up
Christian music
Alleluia (Schutte)
Alleluja from Exultate Jubilate (Mozart)
Amazing Grace
Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod)
Ave Maria (Caccini)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
Be Thou My Vision
The Best of Rooms
Blest Are Those Who Love You (Haugen)
Catholic Mass (Schutte)
Celtic Alleluia (O’Carroll)
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Communion Processional "Take and Eat"
Down in the River to Pray
Flesh of My Flesh
For The Beauty of the Earth
Gift of Love
Gloria in Excelsis (Vivaldi)
Hallelujah Chorus (Handel)
How Beautiful
How Deep the Father's Love for Us
How Great Thou Art
I Surrender All
I Will Be There
I'll Be
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bac)
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Beethoven)
The Lord Bless You and Keep You (Rutter)
The Lord's Prayer (Malotte)
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Morning Has Broken
Nearer, My God, To Thee
Nearer, Still Nearer
O Perfect Love
O Store Gut
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Pastoral Symphony (from The Messiah) (Handel)
Prayer for Home
Psalm 34: Taste and See (Haugen)
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
Sicut Cervus for String Quartet (Palestrina)
Simple Gifts
Sleepers, Awake (Bach)
Thanks Be to God
Wedding Song (There Is Love)
What A Friend We Have in Jesus
You Raise Me Up
Jewish music
Chosn Kale Mazel Tov
Dodi Li
Erev Shel Shoshanim
Jesusalem of Gold
Nigun
Simon Tov
Y’Did Nefesh
More great classical/instrumental music
Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
Bachianas Brazileiras No. 5, Aria (Villa-Lobos)
Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (Fur Elise) (Beethover)
Cavatina (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach)
Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, (Bach)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
Fiddle Tunes
The Flower Song (From Lakme) (Delibes)
Gabriel's Oboe (Morricone)
Gigue (Boardman)
Gloria in Excelsis (Vivaldi)
Grand Sonata Pathetique, (Beethoven)
Habanera from Carmen (Bizet)
Hallelujah Chorus (Handel)
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms)
Intermezzo Sinfonico from Cavalleria Rusticana (Madcagni)
Meditation from Thais (Massenet)
Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme (Puccini)
New World Symphony – Largo (Dvorak)
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (Rachmaninoff)
Royal Fireworks Suite 1. Overture (Handel)
The Swan (Saint-Saens)
Symphony No. 3: Chorale (Saint-Saens)
Symphony No. 4 "Italian" (Mendelssohn)
Tango in D (Albeniz)
Traumerie (Schubert)
Waltz (Brahms)
More great contemporary music
1,2,3,4
All About That Bass
All My Life
Amazed
Any Way You Want It
At Last
La Bamba
Bella Notte
Besame Mucho
Bittersweet Symphony
Boadicea
Bohemian Rhapsody
Book of Days
Born to Be Wild
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bygone Days
Call Me Maybe
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Clocks
Come What May
Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Don't Cry
Don't Stop Believin'
Danny Boy
Everlong
Endless Love
Falling Slowly
Feather Theme
First Day of My Life
Flashing Lights
Georgia On My Mind
Glory to Georgia
A Groovy Kind of Love (Wine/Sager)
Happy Birthday
Here Comes Your Man
Ho Hey
Home
Hoppipolla
Hysteric
I Choose You
I Dreamed a Dream
I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’
I Got You Babe
I Gotta Feeling
I Love You Much Too Much
I Melt With You
I Say a Little Prayer
I See the Light
I Will
I Won't Give Up
I'll Stand By You
I'm A Believer
In My Place
It Had To Be You
It's A Small World
It’s Time
James Bond Theme
Just Like Heaven
Kiss the Girl
Kiss Me
Labor of Love from “Star Trek”
Let It Be
Let it Go
Lovesong
The Ludlows from “Legends of the Fall”
The Kiss from “Last of the Mohicans”
Kiss the Girl
Marching Bands of Manhattan
May It Be
Maybe I'm Amazed
Mr. Blue Sky
Mr. Brightside
More Than a Feeling
Never Gonna Give You Up
Nightswimming
Norwegian Wood
Notre Dame Victory March
Only If
Paradise
Patience
Por Una Cabeza
River Flows in You
Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme, A Time For Us (Rota)
Ribbon in the Sky
The Rose
Safe and Sound
Satin Doll
Say Yes
The Scientist
A selection of tangos (McLean)
September
Shallow
Somebody to Love
Somewhere My Love
Somewhere Only We Know
Somewhere Out There
Staralfur
Starlight
Summertime
Sweet Afton
Sweet Caroline
Sweet Child of Mine
Sweet Home Alabama
That's How Strong My Love Is
Theme from “Beauty and the Beast”
Theme from “Gone With The Wind”
Theme from “Somewhere in Time”
Theme from "Up"
Then
Unforgettable
Us
La Vie en Rose
Viva La Vida
Wading in the Velvet Sea
The Way You Look Tonight
When I'm 64
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
A Whiter Shade of Pale
A Whole New World
Wonderwall
Yea Alabama!
Yellow
Yesterday
You and Me
You Found Me
Young and Beautiful
Your Song
You're My Best Friend
Vocal Accompaniment
This music is specially arranged for voice plus string quartet. In most cases, the songs are
available in multiple keys to accommodate the vocalist.
All I Ask of You
At Last
Ave Maria
Amazing Grace
Can’t Help Falling (In Love With You)
Come What May
From This Moment
Grow Old With Me
Here in My Heart
How Beautiful
I Will Be Here
The Lord’s Prayer
Make You Feel My Love
Making Memories
Panis Angelicus
Parent’s Prayer
Pie Jesu
The Prayer
Prayer for Home
Ribbon in the Sky
The Rose
Someone to Watch Over Me
Surely the Presence of the Lord
Wedding Song
When You Say You Love Me
You Raise Me Up
String Quartet with Trumpet
This music is specially arranged for trumpet plus string quartet.
Air (Handel)
Bridal Chorus (Wagner)
Chorale from Organ Symphony (Saint-Saens)
Coro Minuet (Handel)
Hornpipe (Handel)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
Overture to Royal Fireworks (Handel)
La Rejouissance (Handel)
Rondeau (Mouret)
Si Nos Dejan
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Te Deum (Charpentier)
Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
Christmas
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
Carol of the Bells
Christmas Song
Coventry Carol
Deck the Halls
Ding Dong Merrily on High
First Nowell
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Good Christian Men, Rejoice
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Here We Come A Wassailing
Holly and the Ivy
In the Bleak Midwinter
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Jingle Bells
Joy to the World
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
Merry Christmas, Darling
O Christmas Tree
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Holy Night
O Little One Sweet
Once in Royal David's City
Sans Day Carol
See Amid the Winter's Snow
Silent Night
Sleigh Ride (Mozart)
Star Carol
Still, Still, Still
We Three Kings
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
What Child is This
White Christmas
Winter Wonderland
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