In 2025 we are celebrating our 10-year anniversary! Since the beginning, we added a lot of beautiful music to our repertoire, and provided high quality services to many clients. Be our guest, and let us make your special day even more awesome!
"Mikhail and Valentina's string duo was perfect for our wedding ceremony last month! We received many compliments from our guests on the tasteful music that set the stage for our most memorable day!"
Nicki & Charlie
There are lots of beautiful places in Michigan for an outside ceremony. Consider live, acoustical music played on string instruments to create a most special athmosphere for a perfect wedding.
Do you have a favorite song, or the song that means a lot for two of you? You can have that special moment during your ceremony and you will remember it as we can create an arrangement of almost any song to be played at your wedding.
We are skilled musicians with years of experience playing in orchestras, at solo and chamber concerts in United States and abroad. August Strings opened for us a possibility to create something new and exciting by doing what we love.
Join our studio - first lesson is half-price! We are looking for students who wants to improve, eager to learn, and ready to work hard for the great results. Online lessons available.
Our teachers are dedicated and knowledgeable professionals with highest educational degrees in music and with worldwide teaching and performing experience. They successfully combine best features of Russian and American string schools.
We strive to give our students highest standard of instructions, helping them discover colorful world of music and achieve their dreams. Our teachers seek an individual approach, paying close attention to the personality and the goals of each student. This allows our students to choose their own pace of learning: from relaxing and joyful playing for fun to intense training for those who is planning to enter educational institutions with a music performance degrees.
We provide first half hour lesson for half price, so you can try and see if this is what you need.
Music makes our world brighter, happier, and more complete. This belief, along with the feelings of joy and excitement from making art, is what we aspire to pass to our students. We hope to inspire them to share their dreams and ideas through music, as we have done ourselves.
We fill our lessons with positive energy and professionalism. The fundamentals of instrumental playing are applied in a way which allows each student to express themselves and feel inspired to continue growing. Our teachers enjoy working with students of all ages and levels. At every step we provide thoughtful guidance, teaching beginners basic skills and helping advanced students improve their playing and prepare for public performances and auditions.
Contact us for more information about private/group lessons.
Tatiana Zueva is our music teacher.
She has been working with my kids for 2 years. She was referred to us by a previous teacher with high recommendation. She is a very talented violinist.
Throughout the time we worked with her, she has been an enthusiastic and encouraging teacher. She helped my child to develop the interest to learn the essential skills of violin.
She would go above and beyond to provide other resources to improvise the skill rather than textbooks that we bought in the Suzuki program. She is very flexible with time and scheduling. She is a very humble person and comes to the child's level when working with them so they are not scared or uncomfortable.
She is very patient and kind, respectful and committed to student growth.
I highly recommend Tatiana as a violin teacher for any ages without reservation.
Prathima - Mother of 2 children. Ages - 11/15.
Our string duo will perform at your wedding, corporate event, or reception. We offer a tailored client service and unique arrangements created for you. Our musicians hold advanced performance degrees and maintain active professional career in classical music and education, performing together for many years as orchestra, chamber, and solo musicians in the US and abroad. Get a quote or book now!
Our string duo plays classic wedding repertoire for ceremonies, light classical music for receptions, and we can arrange almost any special song with an advance notice.
August Strings did an awesome job providing background music for our event. They were very professional and punctual. I plan to use them again next year!
Absolutely amazing! This talented group performed new songs for me such as Livin' On A Dream by Journey. I highly recommend them. They are stunning and gave a beautiful ceremony performance. I had guests many come up to me asking who was the string quartet group. Well done! I am extremely pleased with them!
The fact that I am taking the time to write a review for August Strings BEFORE they have played at my daughters wedding should tell you all you need to know! Because my daughter is insistent on getting married outside, in NOVEMBER, IN MICHIGAN getting a musician to say anything beyond, "We don't play outside in November," took several weeks. Mikhail actually took the time to explain why a professional musician cannot risk their hands and instruments playing in the cold. Mikhail has been quick to answer emails and we have come up with a plan for the quartet to play inside and use the DJ sound equipment to play outside. We are meeting at the venue in June to go over the logistics and set the play list for the service and cocktail hour. Just one more reason for my five rating above. I will also mention that I feel the fee for what we are getting is an amazing value. August Strings has already shown that they are worth their weight in gold!
We hired August Strings to play music for our wedding ceremony and had an amazing experience with them. They were easy to work with, very responsive and went above and beyond to make our weddig day special and stress-free. They even took the time to learn some new songs that tailored the wedding to fit our personalities. Most importantly, August Strings preformed the music beautifully. I received a lot of compliments from my guests afterwards. The value was excellent too, I had thought live music was going to be out of my reach budget-wise, but their prices were surprisingly affordable and the extra class, atmosphere and personality was definitely worth it. I really can't say enough good things about them. I would recommend August Strings to anyone.
We had August Strings play for our wedding ceremony. It was last minute and we had 3 different song requests yet they managed to make it all work beautifully! We couldn't be happier with our choice in using August Strings for our wedding.
Mikhail and Valentina's string duo was perfect for our wedding ceremony last month! We received many compliments from our guests on the tasteful music that set the stage for our most memorable day! Throughout our email correspondence, Mikhail was always very prompt with responses and very flexible and open to our music preferences. He even contacted me a few weeks prior to the event to touch base and to make sure all was going as planned. The price was very reasonable. I would highly recommend Mikhail and Valentina to anyone looking for an elegant ensemble for their event.
August Strings played for our ceremony for an outdoor summer wedding. They were very accommodating with our location and the music arrangements were beautiful. It was nice to meet in advance in person to discuss our music preferences!
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