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Gloriette String Quartet provides personalised, exquisite and elegant ceremony music for your wedding ceremony, reception, corporate function, cocktail party, gala dinner or private function. Based in Sydney, Gloriette String Quartet has provided live entertainment in the form of the finest classical, jazz and contemporary music to clients across the Sydney metropolitan area, the Blue Mountains and Central Coast regions.
We know how much time and effort is required to organise a wedding, a corporate function and party and whether you are seeking romantic, classical wedding music, jazz or sophisticated live background music, we offer personalised repertoire tailored to your specific event or function requirements. We are passionate about performing and offer a professional service and a wide range of repertoire to deliver to you a comfortable, unique atmosphere and a first class impression and performance.
Gloriette String Quartet is an accredited member of the NSW Australian Bridal Industry Academy (ABIA) and have won the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Australian Bridal Industry Academy Award for Excellence in 'Ceremony Music' in NSW as voted by their wedding clients and other wedding industry professionals.
Maria Georgiou - Violin BMusEd (Bachelor Music Education)
Maria is the founder and music director of Gloriette String Quartet. She started playing violin at the age of 10 and first studied under the direction of Lorraine Moxey (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra). She later went on to study a Bachelor of Music Education degree at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and continued her violin studies with Alex Todicescu and Ronald Thomas.
Maria has been involved in a few orchestras such as the Sydney Youth Orchestra, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Orchestra, Penrith Symphony Orchestra and Strathfield Symphony Orchestra. For a short while she was involved in the Jesse String Quartet that played instruments specifically made for the quartet by John Godschal Johnson.
Having a greek background, she was asked to be involved in the 22nd Greek Festival of Sydney, to perform rare pieces by the greek composer Nikos Kavvadias.
Monica Jamieson - Cello BMusEd (Bachelor Music Education)
Monica started playing Cello from a young age and gained entrance into the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on the completion of her HSC. She studied under the direction of Ms Susan Blake for 5 years and previously with Mr Nigel Parry.
Monica completed a Bachelor of Music Education in 2000 and has been teaching ever since.
She played with Orchestras such as the Western Youth Orchestra while in high school and later with the SBS Youth Orchestra where she was the principle Cellist for 3 years. Toured around Europe with SBS to Estonia, Finland Russia and Spain.
Monica is enjoying life playing at weddings and corporate functions and is currently playing with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra.
John Bellamy - Viola BA Mass Communication, Certificate IV
John Bellamy is a composer, producer and sound designer working in Sydney, Australia. He specialises in composing for musical theatre, film soundtracks and commercial art. John is himself an accomplished violist, having played with the ABIA award winning Gloriette String Quartet since 2003.
John has studied composition with Daniel Blinkhorn and Scott Saunders and Music Production with Greg White and Drew Crawford. He is currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Music degree (BMus) Composition and Production at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM). In the past year, John has composed music for several AIM productions, including the sound design and score for the AADA production with Hamish Dixon and Javier Garcia 'Women of Troy' directed by Andrew Davidson.
Other highlights in 2008 saw the world premiere of John's solo piano work, 'Travelling Back' performed by Diego Idarraga. He also composed music for a theatrical trailer for the inaugural Sydney China Film Festival.
Noted for his broad repertoire, John has composed scores for, 'Roma's Tomatoes', directed by Danielle Lauren and 'Painting Lewis Morley's Picture', directed by Joshua Marks, as well as many other short films and corporate videos.
John loves to collaborate with other artists from different disciplines and is currently in post-production for a short movie musical, 'Estelle's Etoiles', directed by Danielle Lauren, as well as a stage musical 'Auld Lang Syne', a string quartet and choral/symphonic work.
John has previously studied music at Eora TAFE gaining the prestigious State Medal for Music Certificate IV. He also graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Arts - majoring in Communications, Film, Drama and English. While at university, John directed the award-winning documentary, 'Feral',Jennifer Painter's acclaimed, 'When Are We Going to Manly' for the stage and the performance art spectacular, 'Awake!'.
John has been an active musician since an early age, studying the piano, voice, violin, viola, pipe organ and guitar. He continuesto seek creatively inspiring and commercially successful, collaborative experiences.
Joanne Toouli - Violin BMus(Perf) MMus(Perf) (Bachelor Music Performance & Master of Music Performance)
Joanne began playing the violin when she was three years old. She completed a Bachelor of Music (performance) and Masters of Music (performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium and has studied at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. Joanne has a keen interest in teaching and has a number of private students. She also conducts a school string ensemble and orchestra.
Joanne enjoys performing in a variety of ensembles including the Sydney Opera House Babies Proms Orchestra, Sydney Sinfonia and Australian Youth Orchestra. She has accompanied artists such as Michael Buble, Delta Goodrem, Anthony Callea, Alex Lloyd and Katie Noonan. Joanne has also been playing violin on "Australian Idol" for the past two years.
Joanne has been a violinist in the Gloriette String Quartet since it began in 2002
