Shilakowsky Music Service

Harris Shilakowsky Classic Music Ensembles including; Shilakowsky String Quartet String Ensembles, Solo Violinist Virtual & Live Orchestras & Bands DJ Service Musical Arrangements & Recording Services Professional Musicians providing personalized service. Your desires and needs are considered before anything else.

SSQ is…
the Shilakowsky String Quartet
Elegant Music for Wedding Ceremonies
The SSQ DJ Service
Playing your favorite tunes
and
The NEW SSQ Band
rockin’ & jazzin’ with SSQ Musicians & Singers

Rock, Pop, Jazz, Swing & Romantic
for Cocktails, Dinner & Dancing

Professional Musicians
Personal Service

Performing music for
Weddings, B'nei Mitzvah and all Celebrations, Parties and Special Events

"...Lively dance-tunes, & hauntingly beautiful, spiritual melodies..."

"...I loved it!"
 
Special Requests...your favorite song arranged for string quartet? No problem!*

Our Repertoire

We perform music for special occasions such as weddings, bar-bat mitzvot, parties, fund-raising events & concerts. Our music includes classical selections, tunes from Broadway Musicals, Operas, Jazz and Popular Artists, Fun Party Songs, waltzes, Jewish Music and other religions and countries arranged for string quartet including Yiddish songs, Wedding Music, traditional joyous and moving Christian, Hebrew, & Israeli music from both sacred and secular sources, including music from Fiddler on the Roof. Klezmer Band & orchestral arrangements are available adding additional orchestra and band instruments such as clarinet, trombone, trumpet, etc. to the strings of the quartet.
Classical selections include the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Vivaldi (4 Seasons), Borodin, Favorite excerpts from operas by Puccini, Verdi, popular classics by Bach, Gounod, Tchaikowsky, & Jazz Classics such as Autumn Nocturne, Body & Soul, Fascinatin' Rhythm, I Got Rhythm, Lullaby of Birdland, Joplin Rags, Ellington Compositions, and more.
Bridal March (Mendelssohn), Brandenburg Concerto (JS Bach), Meditation from "Thaïs" (Massanet), Canon (Pachelbel), Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart), Water Music (Handel), Sinfonies De Fanfares, Rondeau (Mouret), Hornpipe from Water Music (Handel) and ethnic musics of all types including...

Jewish Music
Mazel Tov! Klezmer Style - a Bass Quintet by Jay Fishman including Simon Tov, Hevenu Shalom, Chosen Kallah Mazel Tov; Popular Jewish Melodies for String Quartet including Erev Shel Shoshanim (An Evening of Roses), Dodi Li, K'var Achare Chatsot, K'shoshana Ben Hachochim, Klezmer Wedding Medleys including Doinas, Horas, Chusidls, & Freylachs
& NEW ARRANGEMENTS by Harris Shilakowsky

SSQ Bio
Our Quartet consists of professional string players who are all active free-lance musicians performing regularly with groups such as the Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and the Lyric Opera Company of Boston.
The lead violinist, Harris Shilakowsky, was formerly the concertmaster for the New Orleans, London, Omaha, and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras.

For information, bookings and more song list information, please contact:
 
*Unique Arrangements for string quartet by Harris Shilakowsky.
You pick your favorite piece or song. I'll arrange it for the string quartet for you. We'll perform this never-before-heard composition at your wedding

*Recording Services: We'll record your special string music at the wedding, using our professional digital recording equipment…much higher quality than typical video recordings…and burn a CD of the whole wedding ceremony or just the musical parts, if you wish.

Make sure the quality of the sound is perfectly balanced.  Use a Sound Check.

You may order additional copies for your wedding guests to be mailed out to the people on your list.

PACKAGE ALL OF YOUR MUSIC NEEDS and SAVE YOU MONEY. We perform live especially for ceremonies and cocktail hour, then provide DJ services.

We hire only musicians who have passed our rigorous standards of performance. No students or amateurs perform in the Shilakowsky Ensembles. We WILL perform with your vocalist or organist of your choice.

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