Bergamot Quartet

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 commissioning. As interpreters and co-creators of new music, the quartet has premiered hundreds of works by students of all ages and developed numerous pieces with composers at the forefront of contemporary concert music.

Bergamot’s 2025 season includes a concert at National Sawdust celebrating the release of A Dance for Birds by Samuel Torres, composed for the quartet and Torres’ Latin jazz sextet; residencies at Tulane University and the Manhattan School of Music; a return to the Raritan River Music Festival; a collaboration with Cantori New York; and a performance on “The Village Trip” series in Greenwich Village, where they will premiere Samuel Adler’s 11th and Louis Karchin’s 4th string quartets.

They recently launched Project Resonance with composer-performer Dan Trueman, a multi-tiered initiative fostering the creation of new works for Bergamot playing a set of Hardanger d’amore instruments. This summer, they serve on the faculty at New Music On The Point, Wildflower Composers Festival, and Arts Letters & Numbers Creative Music Intensive. They also present Bergamot Quartet Extended, a monthly concert series showcasing new work and inspiring collaborators.

Based in New York City, Bergamot Quartet is Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violins; Martine Kinsella Thomas, viola;

and Irène Han, cello. They were the inaugural Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music from 2020-22, where they were mentored by the JACK Quartet.