"A ferociously good quartet"  - San Francisco Classical Voice

The Eclipse Quartet is a new music ensemble dedicated to the music of twentieth century and present day composers. The quartet also creates works of their own often in collaboration with other media. This quartet is made up of four women with strong backgrounds in international and national chamber music performance, new music and recording. Their combined experience represents a wide range of musical styles and collaborations. The Quartet has performed frequently on both coasts and has taken part in festivals like the festival of New American Music in Sacramento and the Look and Listen Festival, NYC.

Eclipse’s repertoire contains works by such composers as Morton Subotnick, Roger Reynolds, Julia Wolfe, Terri Riley, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Philip Glass and Loius Vierk. They have premiered new works by Zeena Parkins, Carla Kihlstedt, Justin Haynes, Gernot Wolfgang and David Jaffe. The quartet also collaborates with film makers, visual artists and performance artists, exploring the interaction of the seen and the heard.

In May 2006, the quartet’s recording of the string quartets of Zeena Parkins was released on the Tzadik label. Eclipse composed and recorded an original score for a dance film called “Opium” by the Suddenly Dance company which was made for and aired on the Canadian Bravo! station and was featured at Lincoln Center in the 35th annual Dance on Camera Festival. The quartet has also created original music for a film, 4 E Clips, by Ikue Mori as well as a live performance score to Suddenly Dance’s latest film, Nature’s Ecstasy.

Recent collaborations include work with percussionist, William Winant, culminating in a premier of Zeena Parkins' new quintet for percussion and string quartet, pianist Billy Childs at the Angel City Jazz Festival, guitarist, Marco Cappelli, with shows in NYC, LA and Naples, Italy and performances at the Getty museum in LA of a song cycle/theater piece by Sara Kirkland Snider, performed by Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Lisa Rothe.

They have been Visiting  Artists at Mills College in Oakland CA. since 2008.