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Eric Gorfain is an American violinist and founder of The Section Quartet. He is married to singer-songwriter Sam Phillips, with whom he has toured and recorded.
He studied music at UCLA and won a scholarship to spend a semester at the Sakuyo Ongaku University in Japan. He worked as a studio violinist and became fluent in Japanese.
He was concertmaster for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on their Unledded tour. Soon after, he formed the Section Quartet, which does session work in pop, rock, jazz, and rap. Gorfain has written string arrangements for Sam Phillips, Ryan Adams, Christina Aguilera, A Perfect Circle, Band of Horses, Neil Diamond, Sean Lennon, and Cassandra Wilson, and has worked as an arranger and orchestrator with producers Glyn Johns, Jacknife Lee, and Jon Brion.
In 2001 he provided music for Yoake no Mariko, a Japan-exclusive PS2 game designed by Ren & Stimpy Show creators, Spümcø.
Partial discography
With The Section Quartet
- 2004 No Electricity Required
- 2006 Lizard Like Us
- 2007 Fuzzboxx
With Sam Phillips
- 1994 Martinis & Bikini
- 2004 A Boot and a Shoe
- 2008 Don't Do Anything
With Grant-Lee Phillips
- 2004 Virginia Creeper
- 2006 Nineteeneighties
- 2007 Strangelet
- 2009 Little Moon
- 2016 The Narrows
With Al Stewart
- 2005 A Beach Full of Shells
- 2005 Just Yesterday
- 2008 Sparks of Ancient Light
With Spock's Beard
- 2005 Octane
- 2006 Spock's Beard
- 2010 X
With Christina Aguilera
- 2006 Back to Basics
- 2006 Hurt
With Ryan Adams
- 2007 Easy Tiger
- 2011 Ashes & Fire
- 2015 1989
With Belle and Sebastian
- 2010 Write About Love
- 2013 The Third Eye Centre
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 Up to Now, Snow Patrol
- 2010 Something for the Rest of Us, Goo Goo Dolls
- 2011 40 Odd Years, Loudon Wainwright III
- 2011 Sophisticated Ladies, Charlie Haden
- 2012 After Hours, Glenn Frey
- 2012 Red, Taylor Swift
- 2014 Melody Road, Neil Diamond
- 2014 You Should Be So Lucky, Benmont Tench
- 2016 This Girl's in Love (A Bacharach & David Songbook), Rumer