A true "Winter Wonderland" - 03 December 2011

We have a lovely opportunity to perform for a great dinner and holiday reception for a client and his friends. It was in a beautiful residence in close to NYC with the loveliest decorations I've ever seen at someone's home! The host had caterers, a full buffet, a Christmas tree for gift giving, and us ... I'm sure the guests felt very important! We played a sample of pieces from all parts of our collection: classical, jazz, broadway, pop, rock, and holiday. It was great getting a chance to play some hip-per music and really get "down and dirty" with a few pieces, LOL. Take a look at the video sample of our Winter Holiday Mix for your party:

Venue

Private Residence

Westchester, NY

Service

3-hours of Cocktail/Holiday Music

Program List (sampling)

Ave Maria
Bittersweet Symphony, The Verve
Carol of the Bells
Coventry Carol
I Say A Little Prayer (from My Best Friend's Wedding)
Isn't She Lovely, Stevie Wonder
Just Dance, Lady Gaga
The Nutcracker Suite
Ode to Joy
Once Upon A December (from Anastasia)
Palladio (DeBeers Diamond Commercial)
Silent Night
Sleeping Beauty Waltz

Spanish Dance
Temptation Sensation (from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

We Wish You A Merry Christmas
A Whole New World (from Disney's Aladdin)
Winter (from "The Four Seasons")

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Pre-Halloween Freeze!! - 30 October 2011

Pre-HALLOWEEN Wedding! Yay! It was almost time for our favorite holiday and whaddaya know? It's was freezing cold. We mean, FA-reeeeee-zing! We drove out to Cresent Beach with a flute trio (flute, violin, cello). David & Pamela picked a lovely venue with great view of the water. And since it was such a bright and lovely day, they decided to switch things to outdoors. Unfortunately, the wind was high and the temperature was low so we could not play outside. So inside, the innovative maitre'd suggested we play at the door between the outside pier and reception hall. It was better, but still freezing. Thankfully our instruments were safe in the well-heated room!

Venue

Crescent Beach Club, Bayville, NY

www.thecrescentbeachclub.com

Services

Ceremony

Flute trio (flute, violin, cello)

Program List

Prelude

Autumn (from the Four Seasons)

Ave Maria

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Trumpet Voluntary

Yellow, Coldplay

Your Song, Elton John

Ceremony

Wedding Party ~ Air on the G String

Bridal Entrance ~ Canon in D

Unity Ceremony ~ Someone to Watch Over Me

Recessional ~ All You Need is Love, The Beatles

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'A Summer in Iowa' - 16 October 2011

A client contacted us about performing Dvorak's American String Quartet for a seminar/lecture they were hosting - and we were super-excited to comply. It's always nice to play some of our concert repertoire for an audience of keen listeners; really tests all those years of musical training and such. We performed at the beautiful Richter Performing Arts Building in Danbury, CT. The host was very nice and the lecture was very information (all about Dvorak's time in Iowa and his inspiration for writing the piece). The crowd was highly excited for the 3rd movement with the "bird calls" which was the focus on the lecture. It was a great performance with snacks and the end in a very comforting and romantic scenery. Thank's RAA!

Service

Concert Performance

Program List

Dvorak's "American" String Quartet 

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'Wishful Thinking' Cabaret - 14 August 2011

If you didn't get a chance to see it, you missed one fantastic show! iconiQuartet presented Wishful Thinking ~ a musical cabaret & charity event benefitting The American Red Cross at TADA! Youth Theater, Sunday, August 14. We contacted favorite musical theatre singers Tracie Franklin (Hairspray Natl. Tour, Ain't Misbehavin'), Trey Mitchell (Wonderful Town Natl. Tour), Andrew Overcash, Chelsea Picken, and Katherine Wright to perform broadway and pop hits about living for our dreams. Our 4-piece ensemble was expanded to a 20-piece "iconiQuestra" chamber orchestra with woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano, and strings. We raised over $200.00 and had an audience of 50 guests; its was a great success for our first endeavor. We'd like to thank all the singers, musicians, and guests who helped make WT a great event and start of a New York Tradition!

P.S. If you'd like to have a chamber ensemble for your event, just contact us!

Check-out the opening number composed and arranged by Bobbie Crow! More videos available for viewing at http://www.youtube.com/Bob10318:

Press

BroadwayWorld.com Annoucement

Program List

Alto's Lament, Heisler/Goldrich
Boy With Dreams (from Edges: A Song Cycle), Pasek/Paul
* Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing, Stevie Wonder
Free (from A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum), Sondheim
Half As Big As Life (from Promises, Promises), Bacharach
* I Feel So Much Spring (from A New Brain), Finn
I Want to Go to Hollywood/Girl in the Mirror (from Grand Hotel), Yeston
In His Eyes (from Jekyll & Hyde), Wildhorn
* Just Around the Riverbend (from Disney's Pocahontas), Menken/Schwartz
* Part of Your World (from Disney's The Little Mermaid), Menken/Ashman
* Prisoner of Love, 宇多田ヒカル (Utada Hikaru)
* Purpose (from Avenue Q), Lopez/Marx
Random Black Girl, Kooman/Dimond
Serious (from Legally Blonde), Benjamin/O'Keefe
* The Spark of Creation (from Children of Eden), Schwartz
A Way Back to Then (from [title of show]), Bowen
When Sunny Gets Blue, Mandel, Where Do You Start?, Mandel
Whether or Not, Contreras

iconiQuestra Chamber Orchestra

Woodwinds: David Bertrand, Wojciech Milewski, Aaron Patterson
Brass: Gregory Hammontree, Derek Kwong, Erin Whelan, Yuko Yamamura
Percussion: Zachary Eldridge
Piano: Jake Lloyd
Violin: Katsumi Ferguson,Annette Homann, Ayesha Rosena Anna McGowan, Mami Okada, Doyun Park, Mami Alisa Sugita, Daisuke Suzuki
Viola: Blake Allen
Cello: Abigail Kniffin & Navin Manglani
Bass: Holly Koncelik & Joseph Wallace

* = special orchestraion by Bobbie Crow 


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Hello! Welcome to the Official Blog for iconiQ String Quartet. This will be your source to see just what we're thinking, playing, and feeling as musicians struggling through the torrent that is NYC. Feel free to comment, converse, or ask questions. Visit us at our home page for more information:

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