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Eric Gorfain is an American violinist and founder of The Section Quartet, a string quartet that plays cover versions of rock songs. He is married to singer-songwriter Sam Phillips, with whom he has toured and recorded.
Gorfain studied music at UCLA and won a scholarship to spend a semester at the Sakuyo Junior College of Music in Japan. He worked as a studio violinist and became fluent in Japanese. Beginning in 1991, he toured and recorded with musicians in Japan, then returned to Los Angeles three years later. In 1995, he was hired to work on the reunion tour of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. He followed the tour to Japan where his knowledge of Japanese allowed him to act as translator.




The Section Quartet


Soon after the Robert Plant and Jimmy Page tour, he formed the Section Quartet, which calls itself "a rock band with strings". Gorfain said the quartet was inspired by his time with Plant and Page and by an ambition to play lead guitar in a rock band. He wrote an arrangement for the song "Dazed and Confused" by Led Zeppelin and recorded it on the album No Electricity Required (2004). The album includes cover versions of songs by the rock bands Coldplay, Kiss, Iron Maiden, and Queens of the Stone Age.
The quartet's members are violinists Eric Gorfain and Daphne Chen, cellist Richard Dodd, and violist Leah Katz. They are classical musicians who also work on soundtracks and pop music albums, such as Stripped (RCA, 2002) by Christina Aguilera. The quartet's performance on the song "Beautiful" from Aguilera's album caught the attention of the songwriter, Linda Perry, and she produced their album Fuzzbox (2007) for Decca Records.
Gorfain has written string arrangements for Sam Phillips, Ryan Adams, A Perfect Circle, Band of Horses, Neil Diamond, Sean Lennon, and Cassandra Wilson, and has worked as an arranger and orchestrator with producers Jon Brion, Glyn Johns, and Jacknife Lee.




Discography


With The Section Quartet

2004 No Electricity Required
2006 Lizard Like Us
2007 Fuzzboxx
With Ryan Adams

2007 Easy Tiger
2011 Ashes & Fire
2015 1989
With Christina Aguilera

2002 Stripped
2006 Back to Basics
With Neil Diamond

2014 Melody Road
2016 Acoustic Christmas
With Grant-Lee Phillips

2004 Virginia Creeper
2006 Nineteeneighties
2007 Strangelet
2009 Little Moon
2016 The Narrows
With Sam Phillips

1994 Martinis & Bikinis
2004 A Boot and a Shoe
2008 Don't Do Anything
2011 Solid State
2013 Push Any Button
With Spock's Beard

2005 Octane
2006 Spock's Beard
2010 X
2018 Noise Floor
With Al Stewart

2005 A Beach Full of Shells
2008 Sparks of Ancient Light
With others

2004 Seventy Two & Sunny, Uncle Kracker
2005 Back to Bedlam, James Blunt
2005 The Day After Yesterday, Rick Springfield
2006 Friendly Fire, Sean Lennon
2007 Civilians, Joe Henry
2007 Indiana, Jon McLaughlin
2009 Here We Go Again, Demi Lovato
2009 Fashionably Late, Honor Society
2010 Something for the Rest of Us, Goo Goo Dolls
2010 Belle and Sebastian Write About Love, Belle and Sebastian
2011 Sophisticated Ladies, Charlie Haden
2012 After Hours, Glenn Frey
2012 Red, Taylor Swift
2014 You Should Be So Lucky, Benmont Tench
2016 Lemonade, Beyoncé
2016 This Girl's in Love, Rumer
2016 Post Pop Depression, Iggy Pop
2016 The Altar, Banks
2017 Salutations, Conor Oberst
2017 The Far Field, Future Islands
2023 Mercy, John Cale




References

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• The Stage (album)
• Diamond Star Halos
• Here We Go Again (album Demi Lovato)
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Red (album Taylor Swift)
• Eric Gorfain
• Eric
• Drastic Symphonies
• The Section Quartet
• Sam Phillips (musician)
• High Dive
• 2 (Darker My Love album)
• Calling the World
• Only God Was Above Us
• Pink + White