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OBrien Strings Classical Trio from New Haven, CT

Will travel up to 50 miles

  • Avg 5.0 | 35 Reviews
  • 98 Verified Bookings
  • Member Since 2010
  • 8 Awards & Badges
  • Accepts Online Payment
  • Starting at $225 per event

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Kate O'Brien, violinist and leader for OBrien Strings, enjoys making special events come alive with the music you want to hear at weddings, parties, private and public events throughout CT and neighboring NY, MA and RI. She personalizes her enormous repertoire for you with current and past popular and romantic songs, elegant classical selections, jazz, swing, ethnic, country, rock, soul, blues and folk music. She plays SOLO violin and with her DUOs, TRIO and QUARTET and loves taking requests for what people want to hear. Her STRING TRIO and Violin/Guitar DUO are her most popular ensembles. Kate helps make a personalized music list for every client to match your vision and theme of your event. She can make suggestions, you can browse her long lists of music she plays and you can request special songs for Kate to put together. Her experience playing in professional orchestras, operas, shows and also folk, rock, jazz and dance bands allows her to play selections both old and new that guests of all generations will recognize. She coordinates in advance with the venue and any organizers and arrives early that day to set up in the best area, talk to the officiant and organizers about details and timing the music to the event. Bottom line, with OBrien Strings, you can rest assured that your event will be set for success! Her STRING TRIO (violin, viola, cello) arrangements provide a rich and full sound comparable to a quartet. Our fine acoustic instruments carry well both inside and outside and we can provide light amplification if needed. Kate can STROLL among your guests for cocktail hours or parties as a SOLOIST or with her VIOLIN/GUITAR DUO. She also plays with her own keyboard player or your organist, and her ensembles can add flute, trumpet, rhythm section or accompany a vocalist.

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Review by Jessie M.

Wedding CeremonyReviewed on June 4, 2023From New Haven, CT

Kate was very communicative throughout the planning stages of our wedding and was very easy to work with. Her trio sounded fantastic during our ceremony and they were very professional. Her rates are fair and they were punctual. She made trio arrangements for two songs for us and they nailed them! I can’t wait to find another opportunity to hire O’Brien Strings again.

OBrien Strings:

Thanks so much Jessie! All my best wishes to you and Richard.

Review by SUE K.

CelebrationReviewed on May 13, 2023From Oxford, CT

Highly recommend this group. They performed for our senior center and the crowd LOVED them! They chose and performed a perfect variety for them to enjoy!

OBrien Strings:

Thank you, Sue! We totally enjoyed ourselves and you were a delight to meet, a great attitude and so well organized.

Review by Dawn W.

Wedding CeremonyReviewed on October 2, 2022From Rocky Hill, CT

OBrien Strings:

Thank you, Dawn! We really enjoyed playing for your family and guests, our combination of popular tunes, wedding standards and elegant classical. We were inspired by everyone's totally happy attitude and the beautiful black and gold themed set up.

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Song List 

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  • Some of the most popular songs at weddings the past few years | We play literally hundreds of current and past popular songs and can send you PDFs of our rapidly expanding current list!
  • A Thousand Years | Christina Perri
  • I Can't Help Falling in Love With You | Elvis
  • All You Need is Love | Beatles
  • All of Me | J. Legend
  • This Will Be (an Everlasting Love) | Natalie Cole
  • Don't Stop Believin' | Journey
  • Perfect | Sheeran
  • Stand By Me | Ben E. King
  • Viva La Vida | Cold Play
  • How Deep is Your Love | Bee Gees
  • You Are the Best Thing | Ray Montagne
  • You've Got a Friend | Carol King
  • Here Comes the Sun | Beatles
  • I’m a Believer | Monkees
  • At Last | Etta James
  • All of the Lights | Kanye West
  • La Vie en Rose
  • Marry Me | Train
  • I'm Yours | J. Mraz
  • I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing Aerosmith | Aerosmith
  • What a Wonderful World | Louis Armstrong
  • When a Man Loves a Woman | Percy Sledge
  • Wildest Dreams | T. Swift
  • Lean on Me | Bill Withers
  • We take requests! | for SOLO violin, String DUOs, TRIO and QUARTET
  • Love Me Like You Do | Ellie Goulding
  • Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison
  • All I Ask of You | Phantom
  • Make You Feel My Love | Adele
  • Violin/Guitar DUO | So many additional songs..we can send you a PDF
  • ELEGANT CLASSICAL | Classical favorites often requested for weddings:
  • Pachelbel | Canon in D
  • Here Comes the Bride | traditional
  • Clarke | Trumpet Voluntary
  • Mendelssohn | Wedding March
  • Beethoven | Ode to Joy
  • Classical music by these great composers: | Bach , Beethoven, Bernstein, Brahms, Chopin, Clarke, Debussy, Dvorak, Handel, Haydn, Masgagni, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Pachelbel, Puccini, Purcell, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Telemann, Vivaldi and more!
  • Romeo & Juliet | A Time for Us
  • Simon Tov + Mazel Tov | for Jewish weddings
  • POPULAR, ROCK, SOUL, ROMANTIC | plus JAZZ tunes and lots more!
  • All My Life | KC + JoJo
  • Ants Marching | Dave Matthews
  • Anniversary Waltz | traditional
  • Appalachia Waltz | O'Connor
  • As Tears Go By | Rolling Stones
  • As Time Goes By | Casablanca
  • Better Together | Jack Johnson
  • Because | traditional
  • Bewitched | Bothered and Bewildered
  • Bitter Sweet Symphony | Verve
  • Bloom | Paper Kites
  • Bridgerton | main theme
  • Buon Giorno Principessa | Life is Beautiful
  • Can You Feel the Love Tonight | Lion King
  • Close to You | Carpenters
  • Colors of the Wind | Pocohantas
  • Con te Partiro | Andrea Bocelli
  • Dancing Queen | Abba
  • Dog Days are Over | Florence + Machine
  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore | Ellington
  • Eleanor Rigby | Beatles
  • Electric Love | Borns
  • Falling Slowly | Once
  • Fascination | Waltz
  • Fields of Gold | Sting
  • Gabriel's Oboe | The Mission
  • Game of Thrones (theme)
  • Gangsta's Paradise | Coolio-Wonder
  • Girl from Ipanema | Jobim
  • God Only Knows | Beach Boys
  • Hallelujah | Cohen
  • Halo | Beyonce
  • Happy Birthday | traditional
  • Happy Together | The Turtles
  • Here There and Everywhere | Beatles
  • Hey Jude | Beatles
  • I Kissed a Girl | Perry
  • I Won't Give Up | Mraz
  • If I Only Had a Brain | The Wizard of Oz
  • I'll Be There | M. Jackson
  • Imagine | Lennon
  • In the Airplane Over the Sea | NMH
  • In My Place | Cold Play
  • In the Still of the Night | Five Satins
  • Invisible String | T. Swift
  • Just the Way You Are | Mars
  • Last of the Mohicans
  • Long and Winding Road | Beatles
  • Love Affair | Morricone
  • The Luckiest | Ben Folds
  • Mercy, Mercy | Joe Zawinął
  • Mission Impossible | the TV show
  • Moon River | Mancini
  • Morning Has Broken | Cat Stevens
  • My Girl | Temptations
  • My Heart Will Go On | Titanic
  • Never Enough | Greatest Showman
  • New York New York | Kander
  • No Cars Go | Arcade Fire
  • No Particular Place to Go | Chuck Berry
  • November Rain | Guns 'n Roses
  • Oh What a Beautiful Morning | Oklahoma
  • Once Upon a Dream | Sleeping Beauty
  • One | U2
  • Our Love is Here to Stay | Gershwin
  • Over the Rainbow | Wizard of Oz
  • Pretty Woman | Roy Orbison
  • Purple Haze | Jimi Hendricks
  • Ride the Lightning | Metallica
  • The Rose | Bette Midler
  • 'S Wonderful | Gershwin
  • Safe and Sound | Capital Cities
  • Sea of Love | Honey Drippers
  • Shallow | Lady Gaga
  • She's a Rainbow | Rolling Stones
  • Someone Like You | Jeckll + Hyde
  • Something | Beatles
  • Something Wild | L. Stirling
  • Somewhere in Time | John Barry
  • Somewhere My Love | Dr. Zhivago
  • Stairway to Heaven | Led Z
  • Starboy | The Weeknd
  • Staralfur | Sigor Ross
  • Star Wars | Theme, Imperial March
  • Stephen Foster | Folk Songs
  • Such Great Heights | Postal Service
  • Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond
  • Sweet Child of Mine | Guns 'n Rose
  • Thank You | Led Zeppelin
  • Touch the Sky | Kanye West
  • Tupelo Honey | Van Morrison
  • Two of Us | Beatles
  • Unchained Melody | Ghost
  • Under the Boardwalk | Drifters
  • Walk Don't Run | Ventures
  • The Way You Look Tonight
  • We've Only Just Begun | Carpenters
  • What the World Needs Now | Dionne Warwick
  • When I Fall in Love | Sleepless in Seattle
  • When I'm 64 | Beatles
  • When You Wish Upon a Star | Pinoccchio
  • Wonderful Tonight | E Clapton
  • Yellow | Cold Play
  • Yesterday | Beatles
  • You Are Loved | Josh Grobin
  • Young and Beautiful | Lana Delray
  • JAZZ | RAGTIME
  • Bethena | Joplin
  • Dill Pickles Rag | C. Johnson
  • Entertainer Rag | Joplin
  • Ragging the Scale | ragtime
  • Solace | Joplin
  • Spain | C. Corea
  • Sweet Georgia Brown | swing
  • ETHNIC | Latin, C+W, Italian, Irish, Jewish, Polish and more!
  • Ashokan Farewell | the Civil War
  • Beer Barrel Polka | Polish
  • Celtic Odyssey | Irish
  • Come Back to Sorrento | Italian
  • Crazy | Willie Nelson
  • Simple Gifts | traditional
  • Danny Boy | Irish
  • Fiddler on the Roof Sunrise | Sunset
  • Hava Nagilah | and other Horas
  • Irish Jigs | and Hornpipes
  • My Melody of Love | Polish
  • Never on Sunday | Greek
  • Orange Blossom Special | Fiddling
  • Roses Raisins & Almonds | Jewish
  • Sheebeg and Sheemore | Irish
  • SACRED | HYMNS AND MORE
  • You Raise Me Up | Grobin
  • Abide with me | hymn
  • The Prayer | Bayer Sager
  • Amazing Grace | traditional
  • Bach | If Thou Art With Me
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic | hymn
  • Catholic Masses | all parts
  • Celtic Alleluia | for Catholic ceremony
  • How Great Thou Art | hymn
  • Let There be Peace on Earth | hymn
  • Lord Bless Thee and Keep Thee | hymn
  • Prayer of St. Francis | hymn
  • Vangelis | Hymn
  • Wedding Song | Stookey
  • HOLIDAYS | MUSIC
  • Sleigh Ride | L. Anderson
  • Angels We Have Heard on High | trad.
  • Bring a Torch | Jeannette Isabella
  • Christmas Concerto | Corelli
  • Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer
  • Coventry Carol | trad.
  • Handel | Messiah selections
  • Here We Come a Wassailing | trad.
  • Lo How a Rose 'er Blooming | trad.
  • Masters In This Hall | trad.
  • Oh Christmas Tree | trad.
  • People Look East | trad.
  • Shepherd's Chorus | Amal
  • And | many more carols!
  • VIOLIN/GUITAR | DUO
  • Too many to list-- please ask for pdf | We take requests!
  • POPULAR | ROMANTIC and ROCK
  • JAZZ Standards | The Great American Songbook
  • ETHNIC music | all kinds
  • Music from many shows and movies
  • VIOLIN/GUITAR | classical, traditional
  • Wagner | Bridal March (trad.)
  • Mendelssohn | Wedding March (trad.)
  • Bach | Air on the G string
  • Bach | Arioso
  • Mascagni | Intermezzo
  • The Prayer | Bayer-Sager
  • Strauss | waltzes
  • Tchaikovsky | Romeo and Juliet
  • The Wedding Song | trad.
  • and many | many more!
  • VIOLIN/GUITAR | ETHNIC music
  • Italian | Irish + Fiddle tunes
  • Country and Western | and Western
  • Jewish | Hungarian
  • French | Polish
  • Latin | Greek

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Past Events

October 6, 2023 • Wedding Reception
Fri5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Waterford, CT
September 9, 2023 • Wedding Ceremony
Sat3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Winsted, CT
June 17, 2023 • Wedding
Sat10:30 AM - 1:30 PM Terryville, CT
May 20, 2023 • Wedding Ceremony
Sat12:00 PM - 12:30 PM New Haven, CT
May 11, 2023 • Celebration
Thu1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Oxford, CT
February 27, 2023 • Community Event
Mon11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Windsor Locks, CT
October 1, 2022 • Wedding Ceremony
Sat2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Rocky Hill, CT
September 4, 2022 • Wedding Ceremony
Sun12:30 PM - 3:30 PM Mystic, CT
June 17, 2022 • Birthday Party (Adult)
Fri6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Shelton, CT
June 11, 2022 • Wedding Ceremony
Sat4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Guilford, CT
June 4, 2022 • Wedding Ceremony
Sat4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Glastonbury, CT
April 3, 2022 • Wedding Ceremony
Sun11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Waterbury, CT

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