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Featured in: The Fall 2020 Issue of:
 The Knot!!
Ocean Strings / Ocean String Quartet
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Music, like the ocean, can transport us on a journey, and lift us to new places and experiences. We're able to feel peaceful, excited or joyful. Through music we can express emotions in a unique way and with the special person we love. Music also creates an atmosphere that provides lasting memories of a very special event. You deserve to celebrate your most special events with special music!

The Ocean String Quartet is a professional acoustic string quartet founded in September 2003. We are available for weddings, receptions, anniversaries, luncheons, grand openings or other special performances. OSQ has performed at various venues on the Treasure Coast:
The Vero Beach Hotel & Spa, The Vero Beach Art Museum, Costa D'Este, The Moorings, Pointe West, Grand Harbor Beach Club, Sea Oaks, Waldo's Secret Garden, Windsor and many other garden and beachside venues.


NEW! SPECIAL MINI-MONIES, MICRO and/or Zoom Weddings NOW AVAILABLE!
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Let us create the perfect musical ambiance for your next special event!
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​*All Bookings/ Entries must be finalized with a signed contract and deposit by 11:59pm 11.30.20
Winner will be selected on Facebook LIVE/ IGTV On: Tuesday December 1st, 2020 12:00pm!!!
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“The Ocean String Quartet are such talented musicians, they brought such elegance to our wedding!

They are very professional and maintained excellent communication throughout the entire wedding planning process, which really eased my stress when planning from out of town.

I loved working with them and received TONS OF PRAISE from guests. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for live music at their wedding or other event!” -
Molly Gallina October 2016
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Opening for: The Matteo Bocelli Concert Fall of 2018
Vero Beach, FL 

                   Member Biographies

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Matt Stott - Violin

​Matt is an active string artist and teacher in the Vero Beach string community. He’s a director of the IRC Public School Orchestra Program which includes 5 schools. He attended Baylor University in Texas where he graduated with a degree in Music Education. Since then he’s performed with many string ensembles and as a Soloist with orchestras in the state of Florida. Matt also coaches high school basketball and enjoys keeping active in the community by participating in local marathons. He also enjoys traveling, hiking and camping in many parts of the country.  



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Richard Ballinger - Viola

Richard is a director in the IRC Public School Orchestra Program where he has more than 200 string students.  He attended Florida Southern College where he graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Music Performance Degree. Richard came to Vero Beach in 2004 after teaching privately and directing youth orchestras in Stuart, Florida. He has performed in and as a soloist with several orchestras throughout the state of Florida. When he's not busy teaching or performing he's busy surfing, boating or swimming in our Treasure Coast waters… ​thus the inspiration for the Quartet’s name.  ​

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Nicole Ballinger - Violin 

Nicole has been performing for 30+ years and started her musical studies with private instruction in Rhode Island.  After her move to Florida she returned to music performance along with her husband Richard. She has performed with several community orchestras, among them the Indian River Pops and now performs and coordinates the events for OSQ and the duo ensemble Ocean Strings.   She also enjoys teaching a multi-diverse private string studio which includes a Kindermusik studio for preschool children in Vero Beach.   In her spare time she loves to relax on the beach and has avid interests in photography, gourmet cooking & interior decoration and design.  

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Adriana Stenvik - Cello 

Adriana is an accomplished professional cellist and a dedicated teacher. Performing regularly in the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Craig Turley Orchestras, Beautiful Music, Ocean String Quartet, Nova Era, The Walt Disney World Orchestra, and the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, she divides her time between symphonic performance, performing in backup orchestras for national touring groups, and her private teaching studio in Vero Beach, Florida. Adriana also previously held the position of principal cellist of the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra. She has shared the stage with the violin master Joshua Bell and famous pop artists such as Seal, Sting, Adam Levine, Kelly Clarkson, and David Foster, and has toured Florida with The Irish Three Tenors, The Ten Tenors, Duran Duran, The Transiberian Orchestra, Ray Price, Ill Divo, The Indigo Girls, Celtic Woman, and the Electric Light Orchestra among others.  As an educator, Adriana has a private studio of over ten young aspiring students of cello and bass. She also coaches the cellists of Vero Beach High School. Adriana holds a Bachelor of Music in performance, and Master of Arts in Music, with a specialization in string pedagogy, from the University of Central Florida. She has also worked as an adjunct professor of string techniques in the past. ​


Sub- Members Biographies

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Sasha Liberis Korczynski - Violin


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Michelle Fry-Eggen - Cello
Michelle is currently the Director of the Melbourne High School Orchestra. Under her direction, the orchestra program at MHS has grown exponentially and consistently earns superior ratings at District and State Music Performance Assessments. Mrs. Eggen is the Florida Orchestra Association District Chair for District 10 (Brevard County) and she is the conductor for the Brevard Symphony Youth Orchestra's Festivo Orchestra. As a professional cellist she performs in the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra while maintaining an active private studio. Mrs. Eggen is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Florida State University with a Bachelors and Masters in Music Education. 

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Krystle Martinez- Violin/Viola
The Lotus String Quartet was founded by Krystle Deleon who is a proud graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio Music Department.  She received an Associates in Music Education at Del Mar college and received a Bachelors from UTSA in Music Education with a Certificate in Violin Performance.  She has been performing violin since she was 10 and has even performed as a soloist with the UTSA symphony in prestigious places such as St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. She also enjoys playing mariachi music and regularly performs with Mariachi Mujer Internacional who are the official mariachi of the 2014 NBA champions, the Spurs.

* PLEASE NOTE: Requests for dates are NOT considered an ensemble booking.   Confirmed bookings are made only after acceptance of an approved agreement betwe en one of our ensembles and our employer via electronic signatures thru Adobe Document Cloud AND after submission of a financial deposit.  We then list your date as booked on our performance calendar. ​
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