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Bergamot Quartet is fueled by a passion for exploring and advocating for the music of living composers with creative programming, community-oriented audience building, and frequent commissioning. The quartet is in high demand as interpreters and co-creators of new music, having premiered hundreds of works by students of all ages and developed numerous significant new pieces with composers at the forefront of contemporary concert music.
Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violins • Martine Kinsella Thomas, viola • Irène Han, cello
Program
All premieres by graduate student composers:
- Alejandro Arreola
- Joseph Martin
- Patricia Bartow
- Evan Wright
- James Larkins
Free, artists-in-residence
More About Bergamot
Bergamot’s 2026–27 season includes major new works written for the quartet by Amy Beth Kirsten, Eli Greenhoe, Kier GoGwilt, and James Moore.
They have recently launched “Project Resonance” with composer/performer Dan Trueman, a multi-tiered project which will foster the creation and performance of new works for Bergamot playing a set of hardanger instruments (traditional Scandinavian 9-stringed folk instruments). In ‘26-‘27 they are co-leading a course at Princeton University with Trueman on composing for Hardanger instruments. As educators, Bergamot also serves on faculty at New Music On The Point and Arts Letters and Numbers Creative Music Intensive. They operate the monthly concert series “Bergamot Quartet Extended” at Threes Brewing in Brooklyn as a medium to showcase their many inspiring collaborators and present new work.
Based in New York City, Bergamot Quartet is Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violins; Martine Kinsella Thomas, viola; and Irène Han, cello. Bergamot Quartet was the inaugural Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music 2020-2022, where they were mentored by the JACK Quartet.