STATUS CYMBAL is the String Quartet with a difference.

As well as playing the works of Mozart, Beethoven and all the other great composers for the medium, it is also able to bring the same dedication of performance to its own unique library of sparkling and witty arrangements of all kinds of popular music from Opera through Swing and Jazz to the great Musicals, Pop hits and Rock classics, including tunes by the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Abba and many more.

Stauts Cymbal are available for concerts, weddings, product launches and all other kinds of function both corporate and private, together with entertaining in hotels and restaurants and on board cruise liners. Whatever the occasion, you can be assured of a fully professional approach, at a very competitive price, to ensure the success of your event.

As one of the UK's busiest and most sought-after professional quartets, and with more than eighteen years of experience, STATUS CYMBAL has the ability and panache to enhance the ambience of every kind of event, however formal or informal the occasion.A keen sense of the requisite style, achieved by close liaison with the client, ensures that Status Cymbal will be playing the right music in the right place and at the right time.

The UK premiere of the Hollywood movie The Royal Tenenbaums, the re-launches of O2 and Audos, the corporate event organisers, as well as the magazine Men?s Health?s search for a new cover model all saw STATUS CYMBAL providing the music.Always, special care is taken to match the music to the wishes of the engager, thus creating the appropriate mood and atmosphere however extrovert or intimate the occasion might be

The STATUS CYMBAL approach to popular music is both refreshing and adventurous.

From the beginning, it commissioned works from some of Britain's finest string arrangers, so that its unrivalled library now extends from Monteverde to Madonna via Bach, Mozart, Strauß, Gershwin, Bernstein, Duke Ellington, the Beatles, Abba, the Carpenters, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and Queen, to name but a few.

The haunting and the beautiful, the lively, the tearful, the passionate and the humorous, all can be heard in a STATUS CYMBAL performance. Variety, originality and entertainment are its watchwords.

Althorp,
Claridges,
the London Ritz,
Highclere Castle and Pinewood Studios where guest lists have included the Princess Royal, Cleo Laine, Lord Sainsbury, Pavarotti, Bob Geldof, Keith Richards, Steve Redgrave, David Gower and Boy George.