Oceana Duo/Trio

• Lara Garner, international artist - piano, harp, flute
• Ben Roberts, Santa Cruz Symphony, SF Sinfonietta - violin
• Louella Hasbun, Marin Symphony, San Jose Symphony - cello
• Tricia Callero, Spindrift Players - soprano
• Jon Mendle, SF Conservatory of Music - classical guitar
• Alina Polonskaya, SF Sinfonietta - violin, viola

#1 NATIONALLY RATED CLASSICAL DUO/TRIO ON GIGMASTERS. Either as a lovely duo of violin & harp, a duo of violin & piano, our classic piano trio with cello, or a chamber quartet with harp or piano, we will create the ambiance you are seeking for a memorable event. As seasoned professionals, we always ensure the music fits the event and everything runs smoothly.

VARIETY: Our unique quality is our versatility in style and instrumentation. Our harpist is also a pianist and flutist and can bring more than one instrument to an event to provide variety. As a quartet with keyboard, we play an authentic baroque chamber orchestra sound, using both harpsichord and organ setting.(Listen on our website to many more audio samples). In addition to the variety in instruments, we play in a wide variety of styles, including jazz, pop/rock, broadway tunes, celtic and folk fiddling. Our violinist is known for his improvisational skills.

AMPLIFICATION: Having performed for many years in a variety of situations, we know how to enhance an event with music - including using amplification when needed. We find that, particularly with large outdoor weddings and noisy parties, it can make all the difference between an average event and something memorable. Many brides actually hire expensive sound companies to do this. In many cases, our equipment is adequate.

EXPERIENCE: We have played in illustrious venues from coast-to-coast, from Carnegie Hall in New York City to Davies Hall in San Francisco. We periodically go on tour to different parts of the world with various musical groups. Our violinist just returned from touring this summer in Switzerland with the SF Sinfonietta.

MUSIC DEGREES: Our music degrees are from Manhattan School of Music, UC Berkeley, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, & Illinois State Univ. Our pianist/harpist lived in both Rome and in Paris, where her performing career was based for several years.

ORCHESTRAS: We are in the Santa Cruz Symphony, SF Sinfonietta, San Jose Symphony (Symphony Silicon Valley), Marin Symphony & Berkeley Symphony.

• Adagio - Mendelssohn
• Air on the G String - Bach
• Airmail Special - Benny Goodman
• All I Ask of You - Andrew Lloyd Weber
• Amazing Grace - trad. hymn
• Angel - Sara McGlaughlan
• Angel Eyes - Jim Brickman
• Angels We Have Heard on High - Christmas
• Anvil Chorus from "Il Trovatore" - Verdi
• Arabesque - Debussy
• As the Deer - Christian
• Ashokan Farewell - Ungar
• At Last - jazz
• Ave Maria - Franz Schubert
• Baby Love - Diana Ross
• Bach flute trio - Bach
• Bach Prelude in C (solo piano) - Bach
• Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffman" - Offenbach
• Baroque Selections - Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, etc...
• Be, Thou, My Vision - traditional celtic
• Beautiful Blue Danube - Strauss
• Because We Believe - Andrea Boccelli
• Beethoven trios in Eb & c minor - Beethoven
• Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
• Bless the Broken Road - Rascall Flatts
• Brandenburg Concerto #2 - Bach
• Bridal Chorus - Wagner
• Broadway showtunes - various
• Butterfly Waltz - Brian Crain
• Call Me Irresponsible - Sammy Cahn
• Camelot - Camelot
• Can Can - Offenbach
• Can I Have This Dance? - Anne Murray
• Can You Feel the Love Tonight? - Elton John
• Candle in the Wind - Elton John
• Canon in D - Pachelbel
• Can't Help Lovin Dat Man of Mine - Jerome Kern
• Carmen suite - Georges Bizet
• Caro Nome from the Barber of Seville - Rossini
• Celtic harp selections - Turlough O'Carolan
• Change My Heart, O God - Christian praise
• Chanukah - Jewish
• Christ the Lord Is Risen Today - Christian
• Christmas Carols - Traditional
• Claire de Lune - Debussy
• Classical Trios - Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn
• Colors of the Wind - Disney
• Corcovado - Latin
• Core Ingrato - Italian Neopolitan
• Country Roads - John Denver
• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky
• Dark Eyes - Russian Gypsy
• Desperado - Latin
• Disney movie score selections - various
• Do You Hear the People Sing? - from "Les Miserables"
• Do, Re, Mi - Sound of Music
• Dodi Li - trad. Israeli
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Duke Ellington
• Down by the Sally Gardens - Irish
• Du Bist Bei Mir - Bach
• Dvorak Trio in g minor - Dvorak
• Easy Winners - Joplin
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart
• Emperor Waltz - Strauss
• Endless Love - Lionel Ritchie
• Entrance of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
• Entre'acte from Carmen - Bizet
• Erev Ba - Israeli
• Every Breath You Take - Sting
• Fallen Embers - Enya
• Falling Slowly - from "Once"
• Freilach - Jewish Klezmer
• French Baroque harpsichord music - Rameau, Couperin, Lully
• From A Distance - Julie Gold
• From Such Great Heights - Postal Service
• Funuculi, Funucula - Italian
• Fur Elise - Beethoven
• Girl from Ipanema - Jobim
• Give Me Your Hand - trad. Irish
• Glow Worm - Paul Linke
• Good King Wenceslas - Christmas
• Good Riddance - Greenday
• Habanera from "Carmen" - Bizet
• Halicha Lekeisariya (Eli, Eli) - trad. Israeli
• Hallelujah Chorus - Handel
• Happy Birthday - American
• Hava Nagila - Jewish
• Haydn Trio in G - Franz J Haydn
• Hey, Jude - Paul McCartney
• Hine Ma Tov - Israeli
• How Great Thou Art - Christian
• Humoresque - Dvorak
• Hungarian Dance #5 - Brahms
• I Dreamed a Dream - "Les Mis"
• I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
• I Will Be Here - Steven Curtis Chapman
• I Will Remember You - Sarah McLaughlan
• I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
• Ich Liebe Dich - Beethoven
• If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys
• Imagine - John Lennon
• In The Mood - Joe Garland
• Isn't It Romantic? - Rodgers & Hart
• It Don't Mean A Thing - Duke Ellington
• Jasmine Flower - traditional Chinese - Chinese
• Java Jive - 1940s swing
• Jerusalem of Gold - Israeli
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
• Jupiter (solo harp) - Holst
• Kalinka - Russian
• Klezmer selections - traditional
• Kreuzer Sonata - Beethoven
• La Cinquintaine - Lalo
• La Donne e Mobile from "Rigoletto" - Verdi
• La Rejouissance - Handel
• Largo from "Xerxes" - Handel
• Legends of the Fall - James Horner
• Let it Be - John Lennon
• Liebeslied - Kreisler
• Liebestraum - Franz Liszt
• Lili Marlene - 1940s ballad
• Lord of the Rings selections - Howard Shore
• March from "Aida" - Verdi
• Mazurka - Chopin
• Meditation from Thais - Massenet
• Memories from "Cats" - Andrew Lloyd Weber
• Merry Widow Waltz - Lehar
• Minute Waltz - Chopin
• Misty - Erroll Garner
• Moondance - Van Morrison
• Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
• Morning Has Broken - traditional celtic
• Moscow Nights - Russian
• Movie score selections - various
• Mozart duet in D - Mozart
• Mozart duet in G - Mozart
• Mozart Sonata in D (solo piano) - Mozart
• Mozart Trio in Bb - W.A. Mozart
• Mrs Maxwell (celtic harp) - O Carolan
• Musetta's Waltz from "La Boheme" - Puccini
• Music of the Night from "Phantom" - Andrew Lloyd Weber
• My Favorite Things - Sound of Music
• My Heart Will Go On (Titanic) - Celine Dion
• My Immortal - Evanescence
• Nocturne - Chopin
• November Rain - Guns' n Roses
• O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
• O' Sole Mio - Italian Neopolitan
• O, Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
• Ode to Joy - Beethoven
• Ol' Man River - Showboat
• On the Jordan - Israeli
• On Wings of Song - Mendelssohn
• One Hundred Years - Five For Fighting
• Only Time - Enya
• Opera selections - opera composers
• Oye Como Va? - Latin
• Pachelbel Canon in D (trio) - Pachelbel
• Panis Angelicus - Frank
• Pavane - Faure
• Peacherine Rag - Joplin
• Perfect Love - John Denver/Placido Domingo
• Phantom of the Opera selections - Andrew Lloyd Weber
• Pomp and Circumstance - Sir Edward Elgar
• Praise Be to God - Christian
• Puttin' On the Ritz - Berlin
• Que Tu Me Quieras - Latin
• Raindrop Prelude - Chopin
• Romance Sans Paroles - Faure
• Romanze in G - Beethoven
• Rondo Alla Turca - Mozart
• Royal Fireworks - Handel
• Rustles of Spring - Sinding
• Sail On - Lionel Ritchie
• Salut D'Amor - Elgar
• Satin Doll - Duke Ellington
• Schubert Adagio - Schubert
• Schubert trio No. 1 & 2 - Franz Schubert
• September from "The Fantastiks" - Tom Jones
• Serba - Jewish Klezmer
• Serenade - Sinding
• Serenade in d minor - Schubert
• Shalom Aleichem - Jewish
• Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach
• Sheherezade - Rimsky-Korsakov
• Shepherd Moon - Enya
• Sholom Aleichem - Jewish
• Siboney - Lecuona
• Some of These Days - Jerome Kern
• Something - The Beatles
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen (Judy Garland)
• Spring Sonata - Beethoven
• Spring Song - Mendelssohn
• St James Infirmary - 1940s jazz
• Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
• Stop in the Name of Love - Diana Ross
• Sunrise Sunset - Fiddler on the Roof
• S'vivon - Jewish Hanukkah
• Tales From the Vienna Woods - Strauss
• Tango Argentino "Como Le Va?" - Valverde
• Tango El Choclo - Villoldo
• Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
• The Communion Song - Christian
• The Little Birch Tree - Russian
• The Prayer - Andrea Boccelli/Celine Dion
• The Rose - Amanda McBroom
• The Star-Spangled Banner - American
• Theme from Rocky - (unusual recessional)
• This is the Day - Psalm 118
• Time to Say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli
• To A Wild Rose - MacDowell
• 'Torna Sorriento - Italian Neopolitan
• Traumerei - Schumann
• Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
• Tum Balalaika - Russian
• Tum Balalaika - Jewish
• Turbulent Waters - Maykapar
• Tuxedo Junction - 1940s swing
• Two Guitars - Russian Gypsy
• Unforgettable - Sinatra
• Venetian Boat Song - Mendelssohn
• Vissi d'arte from Madama Butterfly - Puccini
• Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Vivaldi
• Wake Me Up When September Ends - Greenday
• Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky
• Water Music - Handel
• We Three Kings of Orient Are - Christmas
• Wedding March - Mendelssohn
• When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - traditional Irish
• When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krause
• Will Ye No Come Back Again? - trad. Scottish
• Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
• Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
• Women of Ireland - traditional
• You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban
• You'll Be in My Heart - Phil Collins

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• We could not have had a better experience. They were a joy and certainly added to our beautiful wedding! -- Barbara T, San Ramon, CA, 7/27/2008
• Having Oceans Sands Trio play at our Wedding was the BEST decision we made! It was the perfect touch to our perfect day. THANK YOU! -- Donna D, San Rafael, CA, 3/28/2009
• I can't say enough good things about the Ocean Sands Trio. They played from a very impressive repertoire for the three hours of our wedding reception and, even though there were 60 people in a relatively small space, their sound never "got in the way" of conversation. Lara is dependable, flexible and accommodating–three very important adjectives for the business she's in–and I wouldn't hesitate in giving her my highest and most enthusiastic recommendation! -- Kerry E, San Francisco, CA, 8/24/2008
• They were fantastic!!! I would recommend them to anyone! -- Colleen C, Hopland, CA, 10/5/2007
• What a pleasure to have this harpist have my daughter and son-in-law's brunch. I would recommend Ocean Sands Trio for any event. EXCELLENT!!! -- Curt W, Los Gatos, CA, 1/19/2008
• I was extremely impressed with Lara's courtesy and professionalism. She gave a lovely performance on the harp which made our event extra special. I would highly recommend her services. -- Pat E, Sausalito, CA, 2/29/2008
• Lara is a marvelous pianist and very easy to work with. She played everything we asked for and created a lovely background environment for our party. I can't say enough good things about her music and personality. I highly recommend her and I plan on hiring her again for another event. -- James H, San Francisco, CA, 10/22/2008
• Ocean Sands Trio was absolutely the final touch to my daughter's wedding day. They were on time and in the gazebo playing as I (mother of the bride) came to the wedding area. I walked up to them to greet them and they were all so cordial. Their professionalism was beyond measure. At the last minute the soloist for the wedding was unable to sing and Lara filled in singing "The Prayer." What a treat that was!!! I didn't have to frantically look around for a replacement - she was there and willing to help out. I never worried about anything for one minute - it was all taken care of and more. I would highly recommend this trio for any event. -- Susan W, Hollister, CA, 6/27/2008
• They were excellent, extremely professional and played beautifully. -- Danielle R, Burlingame, CA, 7/5/2008
• Lara and her group were just what we were hoping for. We wanted a classy event and the Ocean Sands trio helped us accomplish this with great success. Booking a trio from the East Coast can be a challenge. Ocean Sands and Gigmasters made it easy. I highly recommend Ocean Sands for private parties and corporate events. Thanks! -- Lisa S, San Francisco, CA, 8/25/2008
• Lara was a pleasure to work with and the band sounded great! -- Cathy V, Reno, NV, 9/14/2008
• Lara was extremely accommdating, with many recommendations. She was very responsive to my questions and needs ( I was nervous about the wedding and I emailed her A LOT!)and she worked to make me feel comfortable and confident. She and her fellow musicians were punctual, professional, and their music was great. They also worked with our freind who sang at our wedding ceremony both before the event by email and on the day of the event before guests arrived. All of our guests commented on how lovely and fitting the music was. I highly reommend both Lara and Ocean Sands. -- Bill B, Oakland, CA, 7/26/2008
• The event was perfect. -- Indy C, San Jose, CA, 8/11/2007
• Ocean Sands was an excellent choice for our Company Holdiay party. They were professional and extremely talented. Our guests really enjoyed the music and I would highly recomment them. -- Kristen K, Cupertino, CA, 12/14/2007
• We were very happy to have the Ocean Sands Trio to play at our wedding ceremony. They were amazing and we would recommend them to anyone! Great communication & very friendly! Thank YOU Ocean Sands for your hard work and your beautiful talents! We are grateful your music was part of our special day. -- Melisa P, Berkeley, CA, 9/15/2007
• They were fantastic! The Ocen Sands Trio went above and beyond to find the music we wanted and perform it beautifully for our ceremony! -- Katlyn M, Carmel, CA, 8/31/2008
• Excellent musicians. Everyone enjoyed the music. The whole evening just seemed perfect. Thanks to Ocean Sands' incredible talent and easy accessibility in communications prior to the event. I recommend them highly. -- James H, San Francisco, CA, 12/10/2008
• Played beautifully and would definitely recommend to a friend. -- Kira M, Burlingame, CA, 8/13/2007
• They were wonderful. The music was just right and everyone had a fantastic evening. We were lucky to have them and I would certainly hire them again. -- Amelia J, San Francisco, CA, 8/9/2007
• Wow! They were great. I sincerely recommend the Ocean Sands Trio to anyone looking for beautiful music to accompany their event. They were perfect in every way. -- Derek G, San Francisco, CA, 7/21/2007

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