In 2017, our Stringspace events included:

• Art Gallery of NSW – Jade MacRae and Band Performing at the Opening of the Making Modernism Exhibition for the Art Gallery of NSW
• Art Gallery of NSW – AGNSW Dinner event for Steven Lowy
• Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society – Dinner party at the National Arboretum, Canberra
• Australian Prime Minister’s Awards Ceremony at The National Arboretum, Canberra (jazz band)
• Australia Square – 50th Anniversary Party for Harry Seidler’s Australia Square at Australia Square (string quartet)
• Australian Of The Year Awards ceremony at Parliament House, Canberra (string quartet)
• The Biggest Morning Tea Fundraiser at The Melbourne Town Hall (string duo)
• Carolina Clothes Store Opening, Neutral Bay (solo jazz sax)
• Century Entertainment – Stringspace Orchestra concerts of Intimate Music from The New World – Final Fantasy at The Melbourne Recital Centre, The Concourse Sydney and in Brisbane.
• Chifley Tower – Art Opening (string quartet)
• Chifley Tower – Daily Christmas Entrance Foyer Music (string quartet)
• Chinese Property – client event at Collins Street, Melbourne (solo cellist)
• City of Adelaide’s National Volunteer’s Week celebration (string duo)
• Clyde & Co. Art Auction, Perth (string duo)
• The Commonwealth Club, Canberra
• Crestone Wealth – Client Cocktail Party: Collins Street, Melbourne (string quartet)
• Crystal Cruises “Bach Cruise” Launch – Stringspace Orchestra
• Data Processor’s Annual Christmas Party at Walsh Bay (string quartet)
• Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet – Australia Day Party at the Prime Minister of Australia’s residence, Canberra (solo guitarist)
• The Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet – Luncheon in Honour of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu
• Disney – Beauty & The Beast premiere at The State Theatre
• Eq Tower Opening Launch Party, Melbourne (string duo)
• The Gin Palace’s 20th Anniversary Party, Melbourne (1950’s Lounge Band)
• Herbert Smith Freehills – Annual Wine Tasting Dinner (solo jazz guitarist)
• Herbert Smith Freehills – Client Dinner Party (jazz band)
• Herbert Smith Freehills – Client event – (Latino guitar & bass)
• Herbert Smith Freehills – Corporate Client Christmas Party (solo jazz piano)
• Herbert Smith Freehills – End-of-year client evening (solo jazz piano)
• Herbert Smith Freehills – Private viewing of the Archibald Exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW (string duo)
• James Bond-themed birthday party (string quartet)
• Lendlease – Cocktail Party for the Property Council of Australia at Barangaroo (string trio)
• Madgwick Lawyers Melbourne Office Opening (string quartet)
• Malleson Lawyers event at The Christian Dior Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria
• Merivales – March Into Merivale hosted by Justin Hemmes at The Ivy Bar (Jade MacRae singing with our strings)
• Murdoch School of Law – End of Year Reception Party (string duo)
• National Australia Bank – client party at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra (string trio)
• National Australia Bank – event at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (string duo)
• National Gallery of Australia – Versailles Exhibition – Afternoon Tea Event (solo harpist)
• National Gallery of Victoria – Christian Dior Exhibition Dinner at the National Gallery of Victoria for the National Gallery of Victoria (string trio)
• NEP Studios – Concert celebration (Stringspace Orchestra)
• Nespresso – Solo Violin CD to be played in 11 Nespresso Stores throughout Australia
• Nespresso Vertuo Activation – Solo Violinists in-store throughout November & December.
• Objective Corporation Christmas Party (string duo)
• Omega Boutique Christmas Party – Sydney & Melbourne (string quintets)
• Pink Ladies Luncheon – hosted by Ita Buttrose – Brisbane
• Pink Ladies Luncheon – hosted by Former Governor-General Quentin Bryce at the National Gallery of Australia.
• Providence Client Christmas Party at The Establishment Hotel, Sydney (string duo)
• Q&A – William Barton 45-minute Pre-Show Concert for TV show Q&A at Parliament House (solo didgeridoo)
• Rialto Tower (solo cellist)
• Royal Automobile Club of Queensland – Cocktail Party (string trio)
• Shine Awards Night at The Brisbane Town Hall (string quartet)
• Southern Cross Club Awards Ceremony, Canberra (string quartet)
• Southern Cross Club – Melbourne Cup Lunch (string quartet)
• State Library of Victoria –  State Library of Victoria’s Thank You event (string duo)
• Sunday Heart Parade – Recording session at Sing Sing Studios Melbourne (string duo)
• Sydney Opera House – Kids Music Cafe Concert Series – We provided musicians and a full program for five concerts over five days at the Sydney Opera House.
• Sydney Opera House – Music of the Forest Concert Series for the Sydney Opera House at the Sydney Opera House
• Sydney Opera House – Opening Night of Peter & The Wolf (solo jazz piano)
• The Sydney Opera House – We trialled two acoustic setups so final decisions on the new acoustics being installed in the Opera House could be made. Our string quartet expanded into a small orchestra with French Horn, Clarinet and percussion.
• Tianjin Airlines Launch at The Melbourne Aquarium (jazz band)
• Toyota – VIP Australia Private Dinner Concert (string quartet)
• University of Queensland’s Award Ceremony (jazz + pop band)
• Xiamen Airlines – Thank You Dinner at Crown, Melbourne (string quartet)

Photos coming soon…

Photo credit: @eunbeelee

Hey Lucie,

I just wanted to say a big thank you for our wedding day.

It was such a nice touch having you guys at our ceremony. Everyone commented on how well you guys played.

Have a great day!

Cass

Lovely feedback from a wedding Stringspace played at last Sunday at Altitude Restaurant:

“I just wanted to say thank you so much. The string quartet was the perfect addition to our ceremony and so many people made comments to the same effect.”

Many thanks,
Megan

Stringspace performed at the Pink Ladies Luncheon at The Sofitel, Brisbane yesterday. The wonderful Ita Buttrose was guest-speaker (string duo)

Lovely feedback from yesterday’s event at The National Portrait Gallery.

Vanessa and Michael were amazing last night, they did an exceptional job & I felt very privileged that they performed at my event.

Regards, Michael – National Australia Bank

Tonight, we have a string duo performing at a private event for The National Australia Bank at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

Here are a few more photos from our Music of the Forest Sydney Opera House Concerts. We’ve had eight more performances since Friday, with today being our last day. Thank you to the Opera House for having us. It’s been amazing!

We had two fun Music of the Forest Stringspace String Quartet concerts at the Sydney Opera House today. It was Bridget’s official first day playing the solo 1st violin parts and she was awesome! Bridget had the whole Utzon Room audience up on their feet clapping and dancing!

Here are a few pre-concert warm-up rehearsal and post-show pics.

Today we had two more great Music of the Forest concerts at the Sydney Opera House!

Today Stringspace performed three String Quartet concerts at The Sydney Opera House for the Opera House’s Music of the Forest series today. It has been such a treat having Sally Cooper up from Melbourne performing as a violin soloist with our Sydney players! She’s always brilliant!

Vogue Magazine was keen to see a clip of Caterina singing in advance of their Omega watches event that’s coming up, so we’ve jumped ahead to SQ6 and made them one. They liked it and have confirmed their booking. Enjoy!

Today we started with 3 string quartet concerts at the Sydney Opera House, and then later Bridget and Ollie performed at a lovely wedding at Paperbark Grove, Centennial Park.

Today we had Music of the Forest Concerts 8 – 10 at the Sydney Opera House.

This morning we had Music of the Forest Concerts 6 & 7 at the Sydney Opera House.

Today we had a quick warm up rehearsal before concerts 4 and 5 at the Sydney Opera House.

Today we had our first three Sydney Opera House concerts for Music of the Forest. They went great!

Today we had a Stringspace orchestra rehearsal for our Sydney Opera House concert series “Music of the Forest”. The concerts will be string quartets, but almost all our musicians who are playing in the series came along to this rehearsal in the Utzon Room.

Photo credit: Derek Henderson/Vogue Magazine

Hi Lucie

Everything was great last week and Harry did a great job.

Thanks for organizing everything.

Cheers,

Leanne Parker
Manager, Special Events

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point

Photo credit: Ros Kavanagh

This is our third event for Alfred. They organise lots of amazing events, including the TEDx talks at the Opera House.

Happy long weekend everyone!

We have just reached 50,000 subscribers on our YouTube channel StringspaceLive! Thank you to everyone for watching our clips!

We’ve just been watching the fantastic cover of Sia’s Chandelier in the Classic FM office, and we absolutely love it! I’m pretty sure our online audience would love it too, so I’m wondering if you’d allow us to host the original video on our Facebook page and on ClassicFM.com? Obviously, you’re used to getting views in the millions, but I’m hoping that Chandelier will do really well if we share on our highly engaged Facebook page – and we’d, of course, tag you and provide links.

Do let me know if you’d be happy to proceed!

Thanks,
Dan
ClassicFM

Today Vogue Magazine were at our family home, otherwise known as the Stringspace film set!

Big congratulations to Audrey for achieving an A+ in her violin exam at the Sydney Conservatorium today! Here’s a photo of Audrey performing at the Sydney Opera House with Stringspace in the Opera House’s Kids Music Cafe Series.

Photo credit: Jonathan Cami for Etihad/Sydney Opera House

Lucie – the music was wonderful! The party was a huge success and Stringspace definitely set the tone!

Thanks for your help.

Simone

Another lovely review on Easy Weddings:

Today Stringspace had a meeting with the Sydney Opera House to talk through programming and performing 28 concerts coming up in July & August at the Opera House this year. Also, in talks for doing more concerts in 2018. We’re excited!! Love working with the Opera House.

Recently we added a French Horn, Clarinet, and Percussion to our usual string quartet line up to make an orchestral sound for the Sydney Opera House. Stringspace musicians were hired to trial two acoustic setups over a full day, so final decisions on the new acoustics being installed in the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House could be made. Our musicians were then asked to give their preference. They really enjoyed the experience.

The Joan Sutherland Theatre is the home of The Australian Ballet and Opera Australia (previously known as The Opera Theatre), it was such an honour to be asked by the Sydney Opera House’s Director of Performing Arts to provide all the musicians for this landmark decision.

A few rehearsal pics:

Our string quartet performed three sets with Jade MacRae onstage at The Ivy Bar Ballroom for March Into Merivale. Some of the included songs were: Here Comes the Sun, Diamonds, Kissing You and Empire State of Mind. It was a big success with Merivale’s saying it was “a magical performance”. They sounded AMAZING!

Here’s an excellent review of our Sydney Opera House Kids Music Cafe concert series:

The ABC came along to our Opera House Concerts today and said they are interested in filming our concerts for TV!

In the morning we had another fun concert for the Sydney Opera House at the Sydney Opera House, and then in the evening Stringspace provided a solo piano player to perform as 1400 guests arrived at the magnificent State Theatre for the latest Walt Disney movie premiere.

Today Audrey joined our March Concert Series at the Sydney Opera House with a little violin solo. She was great!

This morning we were rehearsing and then performing at the Opera House for the new Kids Music Cafe series. We included Bach, Handel, Beethoven, and Vivaldi. It was really fun!

“The musicians were fantastic.” – Jessica Sweeney

– Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet

Today we added a French Horn, Clarinet, and Percussion to our string quartet to make a small orchestra for the Sydney Opera House. Stringspace musicians were used to trial two acoustic setups so that final decisions on the new acoustics being installed in the Opera House could be made.

Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society dinner at The National Arboretum, Canberra

“Thanks for yesterday – it was absolutely fantastic.” Jennifer – National Gallery of Australia – Versailles Exhibition

The couple went together to a concert at the Opera House and then happened to walk by while we play their song. Anyway, it all worked beautifully and she said yes!

Just wanted to extend a BIG thank you for Saturday. With your help, I have not only succeeded in getting a “yes” from the most wonderful girl I’ve ever known, but I think we also succeeded in raising the bar a few notches for all the other young couples out there!

…we won’t ever forget such an awesome experience.

Cheers,
Paul

“I wanted to ask if you could please pass on my thanks to Matt for yesterday. His music was so lovely and provided a wonderful backdrop to the reception.” Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet

2017 Australian of the Year Awards ceremony live ABC TV broadcast at Parliament House, Canberra

“I loved your guys – they were fantastic. All incredible talents and on the money musically. Can’t wait to work with them again!”

Hello! Welcome to 2017!