Craig Stratton studied violin performance in London and in Prague, with professor Ivan Straus and attended numerous master courses in the Czech Republic and Austria.
Craig has given solo recitals in the UK, France, Czech Republic and Florida and now performs with the contemporary group MODULUS QUARTET
He has appeared on countless film and TV productions including JUDY, Star Wars Episode 1, Bridget Jones, Die Another Day, Pride Prejudice and Zombies, Foyles War,
As a session player, Craig has performed on Julian Cope’s album Interpreter and appeared on the Jools Holland Show with Tindersticks. His CD From the Homeland of Czech romatic music for violin and piano is now available online. The CD was featured on the Classic Fm Evening Concert and given three stars in the Classic FM magazine. From the Homeland has also been broadcast on Lyric FM, Dublin and 4MBS Classic Fm - Brisbane, Australia
Craig plays violin, banjo and mandolin in the country folk group PIG EARTH which won best Horizon Act of the Year at the British Country Music Awards and performed at Wembley Arena in February 2012
SKYPE LESSONS for violin and piano now available. Email me through the CONTACT page.
April 2020
SKYPE lessons available for violin and piano. Email me through CONTACT page.
Saturday 7th March 2020
Theatre by The Lake. Keswick 11am
Craig Stratton (violin) with Marie-Elsa Bragg (reading from her new book Sleeping Letters)
2019 - Modulus Quartet - Romania Tour
Tuesday 21st May 2019
London Live Interview - Modulus Quartet
2017 - Modulus Quartet 12 Seconds of Light UK Tour.
Honister, Bristol, London, Oxford, Exeter, Birmingham, Peak District
Monday 6th July 2015
Pig Earth - Chesham Folk Club 8:30pm
Thursday 25th June 2015
Pig Earth - Uxbridge Folk Club 9pm
May 2015
Bergersen quartet appearance on BBC's "The C Word"
August 2014
Piano performance on "Boomers" for BBC
December 2013
Recordings with Tango group
Buenos Aries, Argentina.
Saturday 23rd November
Mozart Requiem with Hart Voices and
Bergersen Quartet
All Saints Church, Fleet 7:30pm
Wednesday 13th November 2013
Pig Earth at the Half Moon, Putney
supporting 3 Daft Monkeys, 8pm
Thursday 7th November 2013
Bergersen Quartet, Spectral Concert with
Hyperion Ensemble, Conway Hall, London
Tuesday 9th July 2013
Pig Earth Band at the Buckingham Summer Music Festival, 8pm,
Radcliffe Centre, MK18 1EG
Sunday 23rd June NOTE TIME 6pm
Steve Reich's Different Trains performed by Bergersen Quartet
Sunday 12th May 2013
Bergersen Quartet performing with West End star Kerry Ellis and guitarist Brian May
Friday 26th April 2013
Lana Del Rey video shoot for her single "Young and Beautiful"
Friday 19th April 2013
Bergersen Quartet performing at Asian Music Circuit
Friday 22nd February 2013
Bergersen Quartet performing at Peninsula Contemporary Arts Festival 8pm
Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University PL4 8AA
Friday 1st February
Piano doubling on TV series "Poirot"
Wednesday 24th and 31st October / Wednesday 7th November 2012
Bergersen Quartet’s autumn 2012 features three concerts
‘St Bartholomews the Great’ Church, West Smithfield London EC1A 9DS
Composers :
Eliot Short
James Pickering
Anna Braithwaite (Shoo Shoo Baby)
T-toe (Terry Owen) (Trombone)
Matthew King
Tom Kilworth with Harpist Valeria Kurbatova
Gemma Storr & Joe Carlo
Sea Stacks (Davy Berryman)
Paul Hepden (Plural Muses)
Friday 20th July 2012
"Opposites React" : Live dance fusion with Bergersen Quartet : 7:30pm
Hoxton Square N1 6NU
Tuesday 17th July 2012
Twitter Symphony Orchestra "The Hawk Goes Hunting" released on Youtube
Saturday 7th July 2012
Private function : Brno, Czech Republic
Unaccompanied works by Bach
Saturday 26th May 2012
PIG EARTH: Acoustic Festival of Britain 6pm,
Uttoxeter Racecourse
Wednesday 9th - Friday 11th May
Bergersen Quaret performing "Scrublands Suite" by Peter Copley,
Brighton Fringe Festival, UK
Wednesday 2nd May 2012
Chamber Orchestra promoting Music and Management.com
Sunday 22nd April
Monday 30th April 2012
Chamber Orchestra promoting Music and Management.com
Sunday 22nd April 2012
Monday 16th April 2012
Pig Earth featured artist on Lincoln City Radio 9pm - 10pm Don't miss it!!
Thursday March 23rd 2012
Bergersen String Quartet recording session with Clement Marfo
Friday 18th March 2012
Pig Earth live BBC Radio Cambridge 9:15pm
Thursday 22nd March
Session recording for Strongroom Studios, Bergersen String Quartet
Friday 2nd March 2012
Filming on Downton Abbey
Sunday 26th February 2012
Performing with PIG EARTH at Wembley Arena 3pm. Supporting Reba Mcentire and Lonestar
Saturday 18th February 2012
Filming Downton Abbey - as "Fiddle player"
Sunday 5th February 2012
Lakeside - Wharf Road, Frimley Green, Surrey, GU16 6PT
NB. Pig Earth performing from 1pm until 2pm
Sunday 8th January 2012
works by Martinu, Brahms, Beethoven and Piazzolla
NB. Concert starts at 6:30pm, St.Mary's Church, West Sussex, PO20 7RE
15th / 16th / 20th November 2011
Bergersen String Quartet - Spectrum Music Festival XXI
Conway Hall, London
Thursday 20th October 2011
Alan Titchmarsh show ITV, 3pm with Katherine Jenkins
Sunday 8th May 2011
Bergersen String Quartet performs as part of the Reverberations / Steve Reich weekend at the Barbican, London
Monday 27th December 2010
Works by Beethoven, Dvorak and Elgar
Saturday 14th May 2010
