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About Us
The Eloquence Quartet was formed when long time friends Peggy Brady and Beth Heid wanted the
opportunity
to play string quartets more often and to explore a wider range of repertoire. They invited
cellist Gywneth Davis and
violinist Rachelle Davis to join them. Peggy began collecting interesting
quartet arrangements on her trips to Munich
and Vienna, also finding a few gems on the internet.
She has assembled one of the most diverse and beautiful repertoire
collections of any Bay Area string
quartet and has organized the songs according to genre so that they can be easily
accessed on the
job when special requests are made. Since its formation, the Eloquence Quartet, Trio and Duo have
become a familiar attraction at the most beautiful venues in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. They are
in high demand for
their professionalism, flexibility and enthusiasm on the job. The members of the
Eloquence Quartet love to make music
together, and have chosen to play together because of their
stylistic affinities. Words often used to describe their
sound are “rich, warm and elegant”
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Peggy Brady,
first violinist and leader of the Eloquence
Quartet, received her musical training at the Hochschule
fur Musik in
Vienna and Arizona State University. In
the twenty years that she has lived in Napa she has been
performing as a
soloist, in chamber music concerts and
in symphony orchestras. She is currently the Assistant
Concertmaster of the
Napa Valley Symphony and Principal
Second Violin of the Marin Symphony where she has been
featured as a soloist
in the west coast premier of two modern
compositions. She has been a member of the Phoenix Symphony,
the opera orchestra of the Staatstheater inBraunschweig, Germany, the AIMS festival orchestra in Graz, Austria, the
California Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony.
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Rachelle Berthelsen-Davis, violinist, teaches violin and
viola as an Assistant Professor of Music at Pacific Union
College in Angwin, California and is the director of the Pacific
Union College Orchestra. Prior to moving to California,
she
was the concertmaster and assistant director of the New
England
Symphonic Ensemble, the resident orchestra for Mid-
America Productions
at Carnegie Hall, New York. As soloist,
concertmaster, and chamber
musician, Berthelsen-Davis has
toured Europe, the Middle East,
South Africa, China, and
Southeast Asia, as well as the United
States, Canada, Mexico, and
the Caribbean. Her current musical
interests include classical
music written in the last thirty
years and non-classical musical
styles.
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Beth Heid,
violist, has performed with many
chamber ensembles
and
orchestras in the Bay Area. She has enjoyed international
musical experience, playing with the Mexico City Philharmonic
for several years, as well as spending several summers in Graz,
Austria with a festival orchestra. She is currently a member of
the Napa Valley Symphony and she also plays frequently with
the
Santa Rosa Symphony. Beth has also had
many years of experience
playing with various
quartets and trios for concerts, weddings,
private
events and on cruise ships. Her academic experience
includes a music degree from the Conservatory of Music at the
University of the Pacific, where she studied both violin and viola
with John Coppin and Warren VanBronkhorst. She also studied
chamber music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria with Jean
Fournier. She has studied for several years with noted Bay
Area
violist and teacher Robert Slaughter.
Gwyneth
Davis, cellist, received her degree in music from Stanford
University and also studied at the San Francisco Conservatory
of
Music. She plays with the Lamplighters,
Cinnabar Opera and many
chamber music and
baroque ensembles, and has performed with most
of
the regional orchestras in the Bay Area as well as with the Utah
Symphony and San Francisco Opera.
Eloquence String Quartet photos by Briana Marie Photagraphy
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