Emily Bowman - St. Louis Native and Owner & Professional Violinist of Beau Son Strings - has over 30 years experience playing the violin and over 20 years experience playing and helping plan music for weddings, corporate events, parties, and other events. She loves working with clients to elevate their events with the magic of live music. Emily can provide many different ensemble types through her business - solo instruments, duos, trios, quartets, and more! Some of the most popular ensembles are Piano/Violin or Cello, String Quartet, and Solo Instrument. We are also able to provide amplification if needed. Contact today to have the power of live music enhance your next event!
We hired Beau Son Strings for our September 2023 wedding ceremony and cocktail hour music, specifically violin and piano. Emily was fantastic to work with before and day off! She was always prepared during our consultations and listened to our wants and needs! Everything went so well and we received so many compliments on how they were a lovely touch to our wedding and sounded wonderful! We are so happy with Beau Son Strings and recommend them to anyone looking to add a more personalized and elegant touch to their wedding!
Response from Beau Son Strings:
Thank you so much for your review, Jordyn! It was so great working with you and Brad to customize music for your wedding day!
Price Range: $500 - $3500
Gig Length: 60 - 180 minutes
Languages: English
Insurance: $2,000,000 - Commercial General Liability Coverage Part
At Beau Son Strings, our mission is to provide the highest quality of LIVE MUSIC to each event!
Beau Son Strings uses the BEST musicians in the St. Louis area. We offer instrumentation anywhere from solo violin to string quartet to a full chamber ensemble with vocalists.
Our talented musicians are passionate about delivering performances that captivate and entertain.
We believe in the power of live music to transform ordinary moments into extraordinary memories.
We understand that every event is unique, and that's why we tailor our performances to your specific needs.
Our clients are our top priority, and we're committed to providing a musical experience that exceeds your expectations.
Whether you're planning a romantic wedding, a lively party, or a sophisticated corporate event,
our live music services will add that extra touch of magic.
Let us create the perfect soundtrack for your event.
Emily Bowman is a Professional Violinist and the Owner/Founder of Beau Son Strings & Ensembles, LLC.
Emily has been playing violin for over 30 years, has a BM & MM in Music Performance, and has over 20 years experience playing and helping plan music for weddings, catholic services, and other events.
Beau Son Strings & Ensembles is not just another string group. We can offer any type of instrumentation you'd like. Our instruments include: Bagpipes, Banjo, Cello, Guitar, Harp, Flute, Organ*, Oboe, Piano, Percussion Instruments, Trumpet, Ukulele, Violin, Viola, Vocals - Female & Male.
We use the top musicians in the St. Louis area. Many of our musicians are members of the following orchestras and ensembles: the St. Louis Symphony, the Fabulous Fox Theater, The Muny, Bach Society of St. Louis, Winter Opera of St. Louis, Salem Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis, and more.
Many of our musicians have also had the opportunity to play with famous artists such as Amy Grant, Josh Groban, the Black Eyed Peas, Trans Siberian Orchestra, the Eagles, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players and so many more.
Most gigs that we play are acoustic but we do have the option to use amplification for those larger events. In this case, we will need access to electric. We also require chairs for the musicians at the event.
| November 09, 2023 • 4:30pm - 6:30pm | Dinner Party |
Our set list is always growing!
~ SONG LIST BY GENRE ~
~Classical~
Air (Bach)
Air from Water Music (Handel)
“All We Like Sheep” from The Messiah (Handel)
Alleluia (Mozart)
Allemande (Schein)
Arioso (Bach)
Ave Maria (Bach - Gounod)
Ave Maria (Schubert
Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
Brandenburg Concertos (Bach)
Bridal Chorus (Wagner)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Clair de Lune (Debussy)
Concerto Grosso Op. 6 (Corelli)
Divertimento in Bb Major (Mozart)
Divertimento in D Major (Moazart)
Divertimento in F Major (Mozart)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
“Finale” from Sonatina in G minor (Dvorak)
“Flower Duet” from Lakme (Delibes)
Four Seasons - Spring (Vivaldi)
Fur Elise (Beethoven)
Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie)
“Hallelujah Chorus” from The Messiah (Handel)
Hornpipe from “Water Music” (Handel)
Humoresque (Dvorak)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
Jupiter from The Planets Theme (Holst)
Judas Maccabeus (Handel)
La Rejouissance from Royal Fireworks (Handel)
Liebestraum (Liszt)
March in D Major (Handel)
Meditation from Thaís (Massenet)
Menuetto from Serenade No. 1 (Brahms)
Minuet (Boccherini)
Nocturne (Borodin)
Nocturne in Eb major (Chopin)
O mio babbino caro (Puccini)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Pavana (Gutierrez)
Pavane (Fauré)
Prelude from English Suite No. 3 (Bach)
Procession Alegre (Cornell)
Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
Prince of Denmark’s March (Clarke)
Procession of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
Rondeau - theme from “Masterpiece Theater” (Mouret)
Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner)
Royal Fireworks (Handel)
Serenade (Haydn)
Serenade in E Major - Moderato (Dvorak)
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - 1st movement (Beethoven)
Symphony No. 77 - movement 4 (Haydn)
Te Deum (Charpentier)
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Debussy)
The King's March (Clarke)
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
Trumpet Voluntary (Boyce)
Violin Sonata in D Major - Largo (Handel)
Water Music (Handel)
Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn)
~Pop~
100 Years (Five for Fighting)
All of Me (Legend)
All you need is Love (Beatles)
At Last (Etta James)
Better Together (Johnson)
Bless the Broken Road (Rascal Flatts)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury)
Candle in the Wind (John & Taupin)
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Crewe & Gaudio)
Can’t Help Falling in Love (Presley)
Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Guaraldi)
City of Stars (Hurwitz, Pasek, & Paul)
Defying Gravity (Schwartz) from the Musical Wicked
Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey)
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You (Adams, Lange, & Kamen)
Fly Me to the Moon (Sinatra)
Girls Like You (Levine, Starch, Evigan, Walter)
Glasgow Love Theme from “Love Actually” (Armstrong)
God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
Hallelujah (Cohen)
Happy (Williams)
How Far I'll Go (Lin-Manuel Miranda) from Moana
How Beautiful (Paris)
I Dreamed a Dream (Schönberg, Boublil, Natel, Kretzmer) from Les Miserables
I Do (Gad & Caillat)
I'm Yours (Mraz)
I Will be Here (Chapman)
I Won’t Give Up (Mraz)
Imagine (Lennon)
Let it Be (Lennon & McCartney)
Let it Go (Anderson-Lopez & Lopez) from Frozen
Lean on Me (Withers)
L-O-V-E (Kaempfert & Gabler)
Love Story (Swift)
Lucky (Mraz & Caillat)
Mama Mia (Anderson, Ulvaeus, & Anderson)
Marry Me (Train)
Marry You (Mars)
Moon River (Mercer & Mancini) from Breakfast at Tiffany's
My Heart Will Go On (Horner & Jennings)
Perfect (Sheeran)
Portugese Love Theme from “Love Actually” (Armstrong)
Rewrite The Stars (Pasek & Paul) from The Greatest Showan
Shallow (Germanotta, Ronson, Wyatt, & Rossomando) from A Star is Born
Shut Up And Dance (Berger, Maiman, McMahon, Patricia, Ray, Waugman)
Someone Like You (Adkins & Wilson)
Somewhere over the Rainbow (Garland)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole)
Stand by Me (King)
Stay with Me (Smith)
Tale as Old as Time (Menken & Ashman) from Beauty & the Beast
Tears in Heaven (Clapton & Jennings)
The Prayer (Foster & Sager)
The Sound of Silence (Simon)
The Way You Look Tonight (Fields & Kern)
Thousand Years (Perri)
Viva La Vida (Berryman, Buckland, Champion, & Martin)
We've Only Just Begun (Nichols & Williams) Performed by The Carpenters
What A Wonderful World (Armstrong)
What About Us (Moore, McDaid, Mac) Performed by Pink
What Makes You Beautiful (Kotecha, Yacoub, Falk)
When I'm 64 (Lennon & McCartney)
Yellow (Coldplay)
You are the Reason (Calum Scott)
You Raise Me Up (Graham & Loveland - Groban)
Your Song (John & Taupin)
~Ragtime/Tango/Waltzes~
Appalachia Waltz (O’Connor)
Bethena (Joplin)
Blue Tango (Anderson)
Joplin assorted Rags
Missouri Waltz (Eppel, Logan, & Shannon)
Jazz
At Last (Warren & Gordon - James)
The Best is yet to come (Coleman & Leigh - Sinatra)
Embraceable You (Gershwin)
Fly Me to the Moon (Howard - Sinatra)
It Don’t Mean a Thing (Ellington)
It Had to Be You (Jones & Khan)
St. Louis Blues (Handy)
Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
The Way You Look Tonight (Kern & Fields)
La Vie En Rose (Guglielmi & Piaf)
Unforgettable (Cole)
What a Wonderful World (Armstrong)
~Ballad/Musical Theater~
A Whole New World from Alladin
All I Ask of You - Phantom of the Opera (Lloyd Webber)
Anything Goes (Porter)
Ashokan Farewall (Ungar)
Candle in the Wind (John & Taupin)
Can’t Help Falling in Love (Presley)
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Crewe & Gaudio)
Fly Me to the Moon (Sinatra)
Defying Gravity (Schwartz) from the Musical Wicked
Disney Classics - assortment
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You (Adams, Lange, & Kamen)
Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits Assortment
I Dreamed a Dream (Schönberg, Boublil, Natel, Kretzmer) from Les Miserables
Lean on Me (Withers)
L-O-V-E (Kaempfert & Gabler)
Love Me Tender (Presley & Matson)
Memory - Cats (Lloyd Webber)
Moon River (Mercer & Mancini) from Breakfast at Tiffany's
My Favorite Things (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - from Sound of Music
My Heart Will Go On (Horner & Jennings)
Phantom of the Opera assortment (Lloyd Webber)
Rewrite The Stars (Pasek & Paul) from The Greatest Showman
Shallow (Germanotta, Ronson, Wyatt, & Rossomando) from A Star is Born
Someone Like You (Adkins & Wilson)
Somewhere - West Side Story (Bernstein)
Somewhere over the Rainbow (Garland)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole)
Stand by Me (King)
Summertime - Porgy & Bess (Gershwin)
Sunrise, Sunset - Fiddler on the Roof (Bock & Harnick)
Tale as Old as Time (Menken & Ashman) from Beauty & the Beast
The Prayer (Foster & Sager)
The Sound of Silence (Simon)
The Way You Look Tonight (Fields & Kern)
Think of Me - Phantom of the Opera (Lloyd Webber)
Unforgettable (Cole)
What a Wonderful World (Armstrong)
You Raise Me Up (Graham & Loveland - Groban)
Your Song (John & Taupin)
You’ve Got a Friend (King-Taylor)
~Classic Rock~
Beatles Assortment
Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Mercury)
Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey)
Imagine (Lennon)
Let it Be (Lennon & McCartney)
Stand By Me (King)
Starry, Starry Night (McLean)
Stop in the Name of Love (Supremes)
Sweet Caroline (Diamond)
This Magic Moment (Pomus & Shuman)
We've Only Just Begun (Nichols & Williams) Performed by The Carpenters
What About Us (Moore, McDaid, Mac) Performed by Pink
When I'm 64 (Lennon & McCartney)
You are So Beautiful (Cocker)
Your Song (John & Taupin)
~Folk Music~
Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór - Irish Folk Tune
Wellerman (A Sea Shanty)
The Parting Glass
Down By the Salley Gardens
~ SONG LIST FOR CHRISTIAN/CATHOLIC CEREMONIES ~
~Prelude/Processional/Recessional Song Choices~
Air from Water Music (Handel)
All of Me (Legend)
Angel Eyes (Brickman)
Arioso (Bach)
A Thousand Years (Perri)
Butterfly Waltz (Crain)
Bridal Chorus (Wagner)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Canticle of the Sun (Haugen)
Canticle of the Turning (Cooney)
Gaelic Morn (Mitchell)
Glasgow Love Theme from “Love Actually” (Armstrong)
Hallelujah (Cohen)
Heartsounds (Lanz)
How Beautiful (Paris)
Hymne (Vangelis)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
Jupiter from The Planets Theme (Holst)
Marry Me (Train)
Meditation from Thaís (Massenet)
O God Beyond All Praising (Holst)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
Perfect (Sheeran)
Prelude No. 1 in C/Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod)
Procession Alegre (Cornell)
Rondeau (Mouret)
Rondeau (Purcell)
Seek Ye First/Canon in D (Lafferty/Pachelbel)
Te Deum (Charpentier)
The King's March (Clarke)
The Wedding Song (Stookey)
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
Trumpet Voluntary (Boyce)
Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn)
With Trumpets and Horns (Handel)
You Are The Reason (Scott)
~Responsorial Psalms~
Blest are those who love you (Haugen)
Here I am Lord (Cooney)
Lord you have the Words (Joncas)
My Soul is thirsting for you (Angrisano)
Taste and See (Angrisano)
Taste and See (Kendzia)
The Lord is Kind and Merciful (Colson)
~Gospel Acclamations~
Mass of a Joyful Heart (Angrisano & Tomaszek)
Alleluia! Give the Glory (Hurd and Canedo)
Celtic (O’Carroll and Walker)
Festival (Chepponis)
~Lighting of Unity Candle/Offertory/Communion~
Bread of Life (Fisher)
Bridal Prayer (Copeland)
Covenant Hymn (Cooney)
Go Light Your World (Rice)
Here I Am (Booth)
Here I Am Lord (Schutte)
How Beautiful (Paris)
How Can I Keep from Singing? (Barnhart)
I Can Only Imagine (Millard)
I Will Be Here (Chapman)
In Crist Alone (Townend and Getty)
Irish Blessing (Fabing)
Love Has Come (Maher)
Open My Eyes (Manibusan)
Partners in the Mission (Hesed)
Table of Plenty (Schutte)
Taste and See (Moore)
The King of Love (Baker)
The Prayer (Foster & Sager)
The Servant Song (Gillard)
The Summons (Bell)
These Alone are Enough (Schutte)
Ubi Caritas (Hurd)
We are one Body (Scallon)
When Love is Found (Wren)
~Offertory/Communion~
Bread of Life (Fisher)
Bridal Prayer (Copeland)
Covenant Hymn (Cooney)
Here I Am (Booth)
Here I Am Lord (Schutte)
How Beautiful (Paris)
How Can I Keep from Singing? (Barnhart)
I Can Only Imagine (Millard)
I Will Be Here (Chapman)
In Crist Alone (Townend and Getty)
Irish Blessing (Fabing)
Love Has Come (Maher)
Open My Eyes (Manibusan)
Partners in the Mission (Hesed)
Table of Plenty (Schutte)
Taste and See (Moore)
The King of Love (Baker)
The Prayer (Foster & Sager)
The Servant Song (Gillard)
The Summons (Bell)
These Alone are Enough (Schutte)
Ubi Caritas (Hurd)
We are one Body (Scallon)
When Love is Found (Wren)
~Roses to Mary~
Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Ave Maria (Kantor)
Hail Mary Gentle Woman (Landry)
We provide music from any genre ranging from Bach to Taylor Swift. We customize music to what you'd like!
Chairs, coverage for outdoor events, electricity if wanting amplification and/or keyboard.
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