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Frontera String Quartet

The Frontera String Quartet will add a touch of elegance to your celebration with its classical string quartet repertoire. Invite Mozart and Bach to your event and everyone will be impressed! Two violins, viola, and cello make up the Frontera String Quartet. Specializing in weddings, they will provide consulting as well as music. A complete list of wedding music is available upon request. A string quartet is also wonderful entertainment for receptions and parties. Also available as a string trio, duo or solo violin.

The members of the Frontera String Quartet all received degrees from the University of Denver Lamont School of Music, which is where they met. All of the members are professional musicians who perform and teach full time. They have played together in various combinations since their school days, but came together and formed the Frontera in 1994.

Josie Quick, violinist
Josie Quick received her Bachelor of Music in violin performance in 1987. She currently performs with the original jazz ensemble Perpetual Motion, which has recorded three CDs that have received critical and popular acclaim. She is an instructor at the Swallow Hill Music Association, where she teaches Folk Orchestra and Blues Fiddle classes. She has worked with the Boulder Philharmonic, the Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Jefferson Symphony. Josie teaches a large studio of private students.

Lisa Appleton, violinist
Lisa received her Bachelor of Music Education. Since 1990 she has performed throughout the Rocky Mountain region in the violin and cello duo "Apples and Honey". Lisa is a member of the Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra. She is the string specialist of St. Mary's Academy and co-conductor for the Littleton Youth Orchestra.

Katie Fouse, violist
Katie earned her Bachelor's of Music in viola performance and her Master's Degree in Suzuki pedagogy from the University of Denver. She has performed with the Colorado Springs Symphony, Mercury Ensemble and the Colorado Symphony orchestras, in addition to numerous string quartets. She is a highly acclaimed instructor in the Suzuki method, and has been teaching for the past eighteen years.

Jennifer Fouse, cellist
Jennifer received her Master's degree in music performance from the University of Denver and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College. She has performed with the Colorado Springs Symphony, the Denver Chamber Orchestra, and the Colorado Ballet Orchestra. She currently is a member of the Mercury Ensemble. Aside from a busy performing schedule, Jennifer teaches a large class of cello students.

To book the Frontera String Quartet, contact Josie Quick at 303-377-1739 or e-mail josie@perpetual-motion.net

 

"I just wanted to thank you and your quartet for the fabulous performance
you gave at my wedding-I couldn't have hoped for better!"
- Kari D'Amato

 

"I'm not worried about a thing because I know I hired the best!" - Jennifer
Hampton


"I just wanted to thank the Frontera String Quartet for your excellent music for our wedding. We recognize good music when we hear it, and you were superb." - Lauren Hill

Music Samples - Frontera String Quartet

A demo CD of the following selections is available.

Processionals- when the bride and bridesmaids walk down the aisle. You can
choose seperate music for bridesmaids or have all the girls walk down to the
same music.

Title Click below to listen
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Real MP3
Trumpet Tune Real MP3
Pachelbel Canon Real MP3
Trumpet Voluntary Real MP3
Bridal Chorus Real MP3
Passacaile Real MP3

 

Interludes- music that can be played during the ceremony for things like
lighting of the unity candle, communion.

Title Click below to listen
Ave Maria Real MP3
Handel Air Real MP3
One Hand, One Heart Real MP3

 

Recessionals- For that joyous moment when the ceremony is over and you've
just kissed!

Title Click below to listen
La Rejouissance Real MP3
Brandenburg No. 3 Real MP3
Handel Hornpipe Real MP3
Wedding March Real MP3
Bach Air Real MP3
Eine Kleine Nachtmusic-Allegro Real MP3

 

Repertoire List for the Frontera String Quartet

The Frontera String Quartet is always adding music to their repertoire. This
is a partial list of their music.

W.A. Mozart String Quartets
No. 11
No. 12, mvts 1, 3
No. 13, mvts 1,3
No.15, mvt. 3
No. 16, mvt. 1,3
No. 17, mvt. 4
No. 21, mvts. 1,2,3
No. 22, mvt. 2
No. 23 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusick" mvts 1-4
No. 24, mvt. 2
Johann Strauss
Tales from the Vienna Woods
The Artist's Life
Blue Danube
Emperor's Waltz
J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 & 6
Little Fugue in g minor
Antonio Vivaldi
"Spring" from the Four Seasons
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Quartet Op. 18 No. 1
Traditional Wedding Music
Assorted short pieces by Handel, Corelli, Purcell, and Bach
Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag
The Entertainer
Solace
Elite Syncopations
Dan Fogelberg - Longer
The Rose
Somewhere Out There
Out Of Africa
Somewhere In Time
One Hand, One Heart
Sabbath Prayer; Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof

 

 
 

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