“Radiating with an urgency to communicate something fascinating and rare.” —The Baltimore Sun
Photography by Corey Hayes
Bergamot Quartet is an NYC-based string quartet dedicated to the evolution of chamber music. They are sought-after interpreters of contemporary music who are expanding the definition of the string quartet genre by leveraging their skills as a classically trained ensemble with their enthusiasm for learning from and adapting to creative artists across a variety of genres. Bergamot maintains a full schedule of collaborations, residencies with educational institutions, appearances on series, recording sessions, and self-produced shows. They regularly commission new music, and prioritize music by women, striving to exhibit the equal gender representation they want to see throughout the music industry.
Our Vision
We share a belief that chamber music is of vital importance to the world at large. It teaches us cooperation, teamwork, how to lead and how to support. It gives us a voice with which we can communicate with others on many levels. The Bergamot Quartet is dedicated to cultivating that voice as a living and blooming entity, taking a format with a deeply important history in western classical music and continually expanding its limits. We work primarily with living composers, with a priority given to music by women, and aim to place this new, genre-bending music in meaningful dialogue with the histories that precede it. We aim to create an increasingly flexible definition of performance that is sensitive to the fabric of our global community. Bergamot comes from the name of a plant as an homage to the spirit of growth that we strive to embody. The name serves as a constant reminder of the inspiration that we draw from the natural world and the care and respect it necessitates.
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Photo credits: Darian Thomas
Bergamot Music Inc. is deeply grateful for the generous support of our Board of Directors, individual donors, and foundation funders who make our work possible through general operating support.
Additional Support for Bergamot Music Inc.'s programs is provided by The Amphion Foundation, The Alice M. Ditson Fund, and New Music USA's New Music Inc. in 2023-24.
