Los Angeles and Bay Area String Quartet for Weddings & Special Events

Violinist Hannah Murray is a classically trained musician who enjoys a dynamic and diverse musical career. Based in Los Angeles, Hannah is an active educator regularly invited to give lectures, workshops, and masterclasses across the country on topics including Timani, violin pedagogy, and yoga for musicians.

She is the founder of corpSonore – sound | body | wellness, a platform for musicians’ health and wellness, and is the violin and viola instructor at Mount Saint Mary’s University. As a performer, she has had the privilege of touring internationally with various bands and composers.

Until recently, Hannah was the principal second violinist of the Tulsa Symphony and currently enjoys freelancing with multiple ensembles in Southern California.

She has performed with Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, 2CELLOS, Andrea Bocelli and Michael Bublé and has over fifteen years of experience performing at events of all kinds.

You can find Hannah at the local animal rescues when she’s not performing for humans, serenading our four-legged friends.

Mark Bassett’s high-octane and dynamic cello playing has led him to create music with a vast variety of genres and performers. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Mark has collaborated with artists like Josh Groban and Lindsey Sterling. He has toured with bands such as Evanescence, Hanson and Celtic Thunder. Now residing in Los Angeles, his passion for film and video game music has led him to be an in demand recording artist.

Recent recordings include Hollywood films such as Charlie’s Angels, Bad Boys For Life, and Frozen 2. Mark has also performed on popular games like Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, and performed at the 2019 Game Awards.

As a classical musician, Mark has recently collaborated with chamber groups such as the Philadelphia String Quartet and the Calder String Quartet, performed as assistant principal cellist of the Fresno Philharmoic and principal cellist of the Zelda: Symphony of the Goddess tour. Mark is a conductor for LA Philharmonic’s Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles.

Maksim Velichkin is an accomplished cellist, pianist, and harpsichordist who has been active as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra artist among an international circle featuring venerable conductors and headlining classical stars.

He has worked with James Levine, Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Yuri Temirkanov, Wolfgang Sawallish, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Sarah Chang, Maxim Vengerov, Yuri Bashmet, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Joshua Bell, Martha Argerich, Gabriela Montero, Renaud Capucon, Lynn Harrell, Misha Maisky, Frans Helmerson as well as many others. Maksim’s performances have been featured on Radio Swiss Romande, WQED FM in Pittsburgh, National Radio and Television of Uzbekistan.

Moreover, as an improviser and interpreter of contemporary and popular music Maksim’s performance and recording career includes credits with noted musical celebrities Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Billy Childs, Burt Bacharach, Bobby McFerrin, Dwight Trible, Bitter:Sweet, Chris Botti, Bob James, Josh Groban, Red Elvises, Bernadette Peters, Natalie Cole, Alan Silvestri, Richard Thompson and many others.

Violist and violinist Sorah Myung enjoys a diversified career as soloist, chamber musician, collaborator and educator. Ms. Myung is currently a faculty member at Irvine Valley College, Vanguard University and Chamber Music Orange County Pre-College while she plays frequently with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Orange County, Southern California.

As part of advocacy of the next generation, Ms. Myung has been working for various music programs in the school districts for over a decade. She is often invited to judge competitions such as American String Teachers Association (ASTA) and MTAC (Music Teachers association of California) and holds a string chair position at Musical Arts Competition of Orange County.

Ms. Myung received her Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory, has a graduate certificate in performance from the DePaul University, and a Master of Music degree from the Yale University School of Music.

Ms. Myung has a great passion for travel, adventures and food and wants to step on the seventh continent, Antarctica someday.

Boryana Popova began violin studies at age six, and soon after attended the State Music School in Varna, Bulgaria. Upon graduation, she was accepted to the National Music Academy in Sofia, where she completed her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin performance.

After she arrived in the US in 2007, Boryana completed her Masters degree at UCLA in 2009 and in 2012 she completed her DMA studies under the instruction of Professors Movses Pogossian and Guillaume Sutre. At UCLA she has participated in master classes with Stuart Canin, Ani Kavafian, Anne-Akiko Meyers, Martin Chalifour, Mark Robertson, David Low, Renaud Capucon, and the Borromeo String Quartet, among others, and was also a member of the UCLA Gluck Foundation Los Angeles String Quartet.

Boryana currently works as a freelance musician in Los Angeles, where she has performed with several orchestras such as: Santa Monica Symphony, Riverside Philharmonic, LA Jewish Symphony, Corona Symphony, Opera San Luis Obispo, Musical Theatre West, and Helix Collective. Boryana is a regular member of Mozart Classical Orchestra (Irvine) and a concertmaster of Pacific Opera Project. Boryana is a board member and director of chamber music of Opera Ritrovata - an opera company dedicated to promote works of women and minorities. As a session musician, she has recorded on numerous scores for film and television, pop albums and commercials. Boryana is also a violin teacher at the French Conservatory of Music in Beverly Hills.

Hui-Ping Lee was born in Taipei, Taiwan .she began her music studies in Taipei and after receiving her degree she moved to United States and began to study at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens Collge(CUNY) while studying for her masters degree in violin, she got inspired to also study viola with Professor Daniel Phillips as well as violin and Lee later collaborated with Prof. Phillips in a highly acclaimed performance of Mozart’s Sinfornia Concertante. Besides being a soloist, she is also devoted to chamber music and experience different genres of music. In Los Angeles, she meets regularly with a chamber group rehearsal under Mr. David L. Wen, derictor of Clap & Tap Chamber Orchestra. . Hui-Ping had a New York debut in Carnegie Weill Hall, New York in 2006. Right now she is a active freelance musician and music educator in Los Angeles.