Celebrate the holidays and music! Make a tax deductible contribution to our kickstarter campaign for our current recording project, music for percussion and string quartet with Willam Winant. Music by Frederic Rzewski, Zeena Parkins and James Tenney. 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69441864/eclipse-quartet-recording-project-0?ref=search

"A spellbinding performance...like breaths taken, each unique, but from the same source" -LA Times

The Eclipse Quartet is an ensemble dedicated to the music of 
twentieth century and present day composers. The scope of their 
repertoire spans works from John Cage and Morton Subotnick to 
collaborations with the singers Beck and Caetano Veloso. Eclipse 
has the versatility to cross genres from works that include 
electronics and computer processing to the jazz compositions of 
grammy award winning pianist Billy Childs.  The Quartet has 
performed frequently on both coasts and has participated in 
festivals such as the Look and Listen Festival in NYC, the 
Scarlatti Festival in Naples, Italy, the Martha's Vineyard 
Chamber Music Festival and the Angel City Jazz Festival in 
Los Angeles.

The repertoire of Eclipse contains works by such dynamic 
composers  as Roger Reynolds, Julia Wolfe, Ben Johnston, Ruth 
Crawford Seeger, Annie Gosfield, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Philip 
Glass, John King and Lois V. Vierk. They have premiered new 
works by Zeena Parkins, Carla Kihlstedt, Justin Haynes, Gernot 
Wolfgang, Stephen Cohn and David Jaffe.

Eclipse has recorded the string quartets of Zeena Parkins for 
the Tzadik label and will be releasing Morton Feldman's epic 
String Quartet and Piano piece with pianist Vicki Ray on 
Bridge Records in the winter of 2013. Eclipse is currently 
working to record three works for percussion and string 
quartet with percussionist William Winant on New World 
Records in 2013 as recipients of the Aaron Copland Fund for 
Music Recording Grant.

The Eclipse Quartet are Artists in Residence at Mills College in 
Oakland California and at the historic artists' retreat Villa 
Aurora in Los Angeles.