quartetpad.com

Award-winning pop string arrangements for all occasions!

Quartetpad arrangements are created with professional string players in mind, but are regularly performed by groups of all ages and abilities, worldwide!

Alison Gillies is the arranger behind all the music on quartetpad.com. By day, a cellist for the orchestra of Welsh National Opera, in her spare time, she is passionate about arranging the latest pop tunes for strings!

Alison’s career has taken her around the world, performing with symphony orchestras, in West End shows, and alongside dance companies. She has also shared stages with pop and crossover artists like Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra, Hauser, McFly, Roni Size, and Kanye West. She has recorded soundtracks for films and TV shows such as Black Mirror, and David Attenborough’s ‘Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur’ and has also composed and performed her own original music for BBC radio dramas.

Alison trained at Cardiff University, Trinity College of Music and Bristol University and began creating her pop string arrangements in 2002. She has not stopped since! Her arrangements, now recognised globally, are now a staple for ensembles worldwide, and she is proud to be an Exclusive Arranger for Hal Leonard’s ArrangeMe Service.