Stringspace
Lucie Miller
Founder, Director
Stringspace was established in 2003 by musician Lucie Miller. Her interest and mission are to provide extremely high-quality & vibrant musicians for events.
Lucie is from a family of third-generation professional musicians and artists. She has worked at the Sydney Theatre Company and performed regularly with the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra.
Lucie has arranged & performed on most string quartet pop songs you can hear on the Stringspace website. She has two violin performance degrees – including a Bachelor of Music (ANU distinction) and a Graduate Diploma from the Sydney Conservatorium (scholarship). During her music degrees, she also attended the Canberra School of Art & the Sydney College of the Arts – majoring in painting. Internationally, Lucie has performed with the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra in over 100 concerts throughout France and Germany.
Lucie directs, edits and produces all the music film clips at StringspaceLive.
As director of Stringspace, Lucie regularly organises live music for the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, the Art Gallery of NSW, and the National Gallery of Australia. She has also organised music for Alannah Hill (at her Chapel Street Store), The National Portrait Gallery, Global Television (Sydney & Melbourne), The Sydney Theatre Company, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Sydney Opera House, Sotheby’s, Sydney Writers’ Festival, Melbourne Fashion Week, Sydney Fashion Week, Sydney Dance Company, ACMI – Australian Centre for the Moving Image, State Library of Victoria, State Library of NSW, Victorian State Government, Australian Guild of Screen Composers, the Australian Performing Rights Association, The Law Council of Australia, Vivid Festival, Australian Film Director Peter Weir, The ABC Q & A Show, InDesign, & Hopscotch Film Director Troy Lum.
Companies that Lucie has organised music for include: Louis Vuitton, Omega (Sydney & Melbourne), Harpers Bazaar, MYER, M.A.C Cosmetics, Porsche (Sydney & Melbourne), Rolex, Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari Maserati, Oroton, Christian Dior, CHANEL, Grandiflora, Volvo, The Living Edge, Winnings, David Jones, Nespresso, Estee Lauder, Jones Lang LaSalle, Coca-Cola, Bvlgari, Dion Lee, SABA, Hugo Boss, Harper’s Bazaar, Gourmet Traveller, and Vogue.
Stringspace has provided a string quartet for U2 at a World Aids Day event at the Sydney Opera House and performed in front of many of the world’s current Presidents and Prime Ministers, including events for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francoise Hollande, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung & The Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. We have performed for The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton, at an event hosted by the Prime Minister at Parliament House, The Prime Minister of Australia’s Australia Day parties at The Lodge and the Prime Minister’s Christmas Party at Kirribilli House.
Since 2003, Stringspace has provided high-quality string and jazz musicians for weddings, corporate events, parties, concerts, and recording sessions for CD, TV, and film throughout Australia.
Stringspace is an agency made up of a collective of friends who all work together for the common goal of providing extremely high-quality live music.
Stringspace has provided numerous jazz bands in-store + private events for Tiffany & Co. – in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide & Auckland, and in-store for Louis Vuitton & Hugo Boss. We have organised a solo violinist to perform throughout Australia in-store for M.A.C Cosmetics – including an event for M.A.C at Vogue Fashion Night Out and a string quartet for the Harpers Bazaar Woman of the Year Awards. We have also booked string players to perform on episodes of the TV show Home & Away.
Our versatile string musicians have been touted as some of the world’s finest.
Stringspace’s extensive string quartet repertoire includes stylish classical, jazz and a popular selection of pop tunes.
Our YouTube Channel, StringspaceLive, receives approx. Fifteen thousand views daily, 6 million views a year, and 1000+ new subscribers each month. Our string quartet video of Pachelbel Canon is the world’s most viewed classical string quartet video. It currently has over 8 million views.
Stringspace musicians are talented, experienced, creative, and professional, and all share an artistic approach to performing. They include graduates of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the National Academy of Music, the Adelaide Elder Conservatorium, the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, the Tasmanian Conservatorium, the Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Western Australia & The Australian National University.
A highlight so far in 2021 was being contacted by the Netflix TV show Bridgerton. Other highlights have included providing our Stringspace Orchestra to perform at the CHANEL Australian Ballet Dinner at the Sydney Opera House, a string quartet for the National Gallery of Australia’s Annual Members Dinner, the Opening of the National Portrait Galleries most extensive exhibition for 2021 – “Australian Love Stories”, a jazz band for the Art Gallery of NSW, and string quartet for an event at the NGV. We also provided a Violin Duo to perform via live stream for the opening of the InDesign Awards.
Stringspace musicians include scholarship and award-winning graduates who have performed in Australia’s highest-profile orchestras & with our most respected dance & theatre companies:
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Sydney Symphony
Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra
ACO2
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Theatre Company
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Bell Shakespeare
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra Victoria
Canberra Symphony
Queensland Symphony
Tasmanian Symphony
Stringspace regularly provides musicians to the following:
The Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet
National Gallery of Australia
The National Gallery of Victoria
The State Library of Victoria
The National Portrait Gallery
The Art Gallery of NSW
The Museum of Contemporary Art
The National Library
Tiffany & Co.
Gloss Creative
LB Styling
The Property Council of Australia
Shell House
Crestone Wealth
The Style Co.
We are recommended to clients by:
The Australian Chamber Orchestra
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The State Library of Victoria
The State Library of NSW
NSW Art Gallery
National Gallery of Australia
The National Portrait Gallery
The Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra
Artists who Stringspace musicians have previously collaborated with include: