Lauren Hinds is a violinist/electric violinist based in Leeds, UK.
She is extremely versatile and enjoys playing a mixture of popular, classical, and contemporary music. Lauren is available for weddings, parties, corporate events and session work.
Lauren studied her undergraduate degree in classical violin at Leeds College of Music and also stayed on to study for her Masters after being awarded a fully funded scholarship from the college. Alongside her studies Lauren has entertained audiences across the UK regularly performing with groups STORM and the Adelia String Quartet.
Most recently Lauren performed at the Royal Festival Hall in London alongside Marc Almond, lead singer of the eighties hit, Tainted Love. In the past she has also performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall and a variety of theatre’s across France and Belgium.
Although Lauren is classically trained she takes joy in performing covers of contemporary pop songs and performing upbeat crossovers of traditional classical pieces.
Lauren performs on a Ted Brewer clear Vivo Air electric violin complete with LED lighting and also her newly made 2016 acoustic violin by luthier Roderick Ward.
Although based in Manchester, Lauren is available as violinist for weddings and other events across the whole of the UK & worldwide.
Lauren was fantastic our guests loved her and were all very complementary, Lauren was professional lovely personality I would recommend hiring her to anyone.
Arrived on time and calmly set up and got on with it. Appreciated as we were very busy.
I can perform throughout the whole day if wanted. Sets are usually not longer than 45 minutes at a time.
I have a PA suitable for upto 200 guests. I'm also completely wireless so I can roam throughout the venue.
Yes
Not much space at all. A small table/chair required for laptop. Power access is essential. I can perform outside with a wireless amplifier, contact for more details.
Yes I am always happy to learn requests providing it's playable. Some songs are not always suitable for violin though (rap etc..)
Dependant upon booking. Example - 2 x 45 minute sets will have a 15 minute break in between.
Pop Set List
1. Abba Medley
2. Abba - The Winner Takes It All
3. Adele - Medley
4. Adele - Skyfall
5. Adele - Make You Feel My Love
6. Adele - Someone Like You
7. Adele - Rolling In The Deep
8. Adele - Hello
9. Adele - When We Were Young
10. Aerosmith - Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
11. Alicia Keys - If I Ain’t Got You
12. Amy Winehouse - Valerie
13. Anna Kendrick - Cups
14. Ariana Grande - One Last Time
15. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
16. Avicii - Wake Me Up
17. Beatles - Yesterday
18. Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
19. Beatles - All You Need Is Love
20. Beatles - Hey Jude
21. Beyonce - Halo
22. Bill Withers - Lean On Me
23. Bon Jovi - Livin’ On A Prayer
24. Braveheart Theme
25. Bruno Mars - Marry You
26. Bruno Mars - Grenade
27. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
28. Camila Cabello - Havana
29. Christina Perri - A Thousand Years
30. Clean Bandit - Rockabye
31. Coldplay - Yellow
32. Coldplay - Clock
33. Coldplay - Fix You
34. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
35. Coldplay - Paradise
36. Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars
37. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
38. Christina Aguilera - Hurt
39. David Guetta - Titanium
40. Elbow - One Day Like This
41. Ella Henderson - Rule The World
42. Ella Henderson - Believe
43. Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud
44. Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
45. Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill
46. Ed Sheeran - Perfect
47. Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime
48. Ellie Goulding - Your Song
49. Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
50. Elton John - Can You Feel The Love
Tonight
51. Elton John - Your Song
52. Elvis Presley - I Can’t Help Falling In Love
With You
53. Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind
54. Etta James - At Last
55. Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
56. Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon
57. Glen Hansard - Falling Slowly
58. Gary Barlow - Sing
59. Guns ’n’ Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine
60. Israel Kamakawo’ole - Over The Rainbow/
What A Wonderful World
61. James Arthur - Safe Inside
62. James Arthur - Say You Won’t Let Go
63. James Blunt - Bonfire Heart
64. James Blunt - You’re Beautiful
65. James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
66. John Legend - All of Me
67. Journey - Don’t Stop Believing
68. Judy Garland - Somewhere Over The
Rainbow
69. Justin Timberlake - Can’t Stop The Feeling
70. Katy Perry - Firework
71. Katy Perry - Roar
72. Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
73. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
74. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
75. Leona Lewis - Run
76. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
77. Little Mix - Black Magic
78. Little Mix - Hair
79. Louis Armstrong - Wonderful World
80. Luis Fonsi - Despacito
81. Madonna - Like A Prayer
82. Mancini - Moon River
83. Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
84. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
85. Michael Buble - Haven’t Met You Yet
86. Michael Buble - It’s A Beautiful Day DISNEY/MUSICALS
87. Michael Buble - Sway 88. Muse - Starlight
89. Muse - Feeling Good 90. Oasis - Wonderwall 91. Oasis - Songbird
92. One Republic - Counting Stars
93. Peggy Lee - Big Spender
94. Pharrell Williams - Happy
95. Phil Collins - A Groovy Kinaid Of Love 96. Pink - True Love
97. Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah 98. Queen Medley
99. Queen - Somebody To Love 100.Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now 101.Rag’n’Bone Man - Human 102.Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack 103.Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Hard To
Concentrate
104.Rihanna - We Found Love
105.Rihanna - Stay
106.Rihanna - Only Girl
107.Robbie Williams - Angels
108.Robbie Williams - Something Stupid 109.Sam Smith - Stay With Me
110.Sam Smith - Not The Only One
111.Seal - Kiss From a Rose
112.Sia - Cheap Thrills
113.Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
114.Take That - Rule The World
115.Taylor Swift - Love Story
116.The Carpenters - We’ve Only Just Begun 117.The Fray - How To Save A
118.The Killers - Mr. Brightside
119.The Killers - Human
120.The Pussycat Dolls - Sway
121.The Righteous Brothers - Unchained
Melody
122.The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 123.Train - Hey, Soul Sister
124.Twilight - Bella’s Lullaby
125.U2 - With Or Without You
126.Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 127.Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 128.Yiruma - River Flows In You
Classical Set List
1. Anon - Greensleeves
2. Bach - Air on the G String
3. Beethoven - Ode To Joy
4. Bizet - Habanera
5. Boccherini - Minuet
6. Brahms - Lullaby
7. Di Capua - O Sole Mio
8. Dvorak - Humoresque
9. Dvorak - Largo from New World 10. Elgar - Nimrod
11. Elgar - Salut D’Amor
12. Elgar - Chanson de Matin
13. Elgar - Chanson de Nuit
14. Faure - Pavane
15. Faure - Sicilienne
16. Faure - Pie Jesu
17. Gabriel’s Oboe
18. Handel - Hornpipe
19. Handel - Le Rejouissance
20. Holst - Jupiter from The Planets 21. Massenet - Meditation from Thais 22. Mascagni - Intermezzo Cavalleria
Rusticana
23. Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
24. Mendelssohn - Wedding March
25. Pachelbel - Canon in D
26. Puccini - Oh! Mia Bambino Caro
27. Saint Saens - The Swan
28. Satie - Gymnopedie
29. Shostakovich - Waltz No.2, Jazz Suite 30. Schubert - Ave Maria
31. Strauss - The Blue Danube
32. Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Theme
33. Tchaikovsky - Waltz from Sleeping
Beauty
34. Vivaldi - Largo from Winter