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Aqua | String Quartet

Aqua String Quartet is a classically trained, finely tuned string quartet that features some of Perth’s most up and coming players – bound by a passion for performance… Boasting completely original arrangements and reinterpretations of artists spanning from the Beatles to Gotye and from Metallica to Amy Winehouse, it would be fair to say no stone has been left unturned in building Aqua String Quartet’s ever-expanding repertoire of future classics

  • Entertainment:
    Classical Music, Live Music, String Instruments
  • City:
    Perth

Video Samples

  • Aqua | Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan
  • Aqua | Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
  • Aqua | Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
  • Aqua | Time is Running Out - Muse

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  • Aqua | String Quartet
  • Aqua | String Quartet
  • Aqua | String Quartet

Biography

Aqua String Quartet is a classically trained, finely tuned string quartet that features some of Perth’s most up and coming players – bound by a passion for performance.

The members of Aqua String Quartet have spent most of their lives refining their chops on the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart – only listening to and playing more contemporary music as a fan or as a hired gun, never truly exploring the potential of applying their passion to the greatest songs written this side of the millennia.

Aqua String Quartet have set out, led by first violinist and arranger Rachael Aquilina, to bring about somewhat of a change to the commonly held perception of what a night out to see a string quartet might look, sound and feel like. If you’re not sure what Daft Punk, Radiohead or Britney Spears would sound like played by two violins, a viola and a cello, you’re not alone… add one of Perth’s most respected drummers, Ben Vanderwal, and you’ve got something close to an idea of how cool some of the best songs from the last 50 years could sound – rethought and rearranged on instruments that have ruled popular music over the last 500 years.

Boasting completely original arrangements and reinterpretations of artists spanning from the Beatles to Gotye and from Metallica to Amy Winehouse, it would be fair to say no stone has been left unturned in building Aquila’s ever-expanding repertoire of future classics – reimagined for classical instruments. Aquila’s live performances smash the two worlds of classical and contemporary music together in a way neither would expect, making for renditions and re-imaginings that bring out the rock in classical and the baroque in pop.