Bergamot Quartet Extended Feat. Iva Casián-Lakoš and Najette Swain
BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together.
Join us for the opening BQE of our 2025 season on Thursday, 2/27, featuring the multifaceted cellist Iva Casián-Lakoš! Our joint set will also include cellist Najette Swain on a lower strings sextet by Jonathan Bingham, commissioned by Ballet Collective that we premiered in Fall 2024.
Venue: Cutelab, Brooklyn. (RSVP for address)
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
Tickets: $15 on eventbrite, $18 at door
BQ in NOLA - Tulane University Residency, Open rehearsal
Venue: Tulane University
Time: TBC
BQ in NOLA - Tulane University Residency, Recital of Student Composer works
Venue: Tulane University Dixon Annex Recital Hall
Time: 7PM
Project Resonance- presented with Music at the Anthology (MATA) with Dan Trueman
1 day, 3 events
March 29, 2025
Lower Manhattan (rsvp for address)
3-6pm: Composers’ Workshop
New works for hardanger quartet (participants to be selected by Bergamot Quartet via application, see below for more details)
6-7pm: Meet & Greet the Hardangers
7pm: Concert performed by Bergamot Quartet and
Dan Trueman
Refreshments provided
Link here to RSVP & for ticket details
Click here to learn more about project resonance
Manhattan School of Music- Alternate Tunings and Acoustics
CLASS CONCERT
Alternate Tunings and Acoustics
Michael Harrison (MM ’15), Director
Featuring a performance by Bergamot Quartet
Free, no tickets required
Ades Performance Space
130 Claremont Avenue
New York, New York 10027
National Sawdust- Samuel Torres's A Dance For Birds
A Dance for Birds is a nine-movement suite of music crafted by the visionary composer and percussionist, Samuel Torres. Showcasing his latin chamber ensemble featuring the Bergamot Quartet with special guest vocalist Lucía Pulido. A Dance for Birds tells a story of migration with the congas (the bird) as the narrator. This work brings Afro-Latin rhythms, jazz and classical music together, defying musical stereotypes and expanding the horizons of chamber music.
LIVE AT NATIONAL SAWDUST // DOORS AT 6:30PM
May 9, 2025
7:30 pm
Cantori New York- 40th Anniversary Concert at Merkin Hall
40th Anniversary Concert at Merkin Hall
May 10, 2025, 7:30pm (one night only!)
Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
The final concert of the season will feature Cantori favorites for chorus and string quartet, including Gregory Spears’s The Tower and the Garden and Elisenda Fábregas’s The Flaming Rock. Anchoring the program is a new work by Laura Schwendinger titled Silent Springs, on a libretto by Ginger Strand and a reprise of the season opener In the Beginning by Aaron Copland. With the Bergamot Quartet and Gabrielle Barkidjija, mezzo soprano.
Tickets on sale soon!
New Music on the Point
Come work with us!
We will be joining the faculty at New Music on the Point (NMOP) this summer. Read on for details.
New Music on the Point
June Festival
June 2-16, 2025
for composers and performers 18+
Intensive interaction between participants and our internationally-renowned faculty artists is integral to the New Music On The Point experience. Participants will work closely with our 2025 faculty in private lessons, masterclasses, workshops, reading sessions, ensembles and daily seminars. Each composition participant will have one of their works performed or coached by faculty performers.
Bergamot Quartet Salon Concert
Join us for an intimate evening of some new and some of Bergamot's favorite tunes to kick off our Spring 2025 season!
We are delighted to be joined by a past BQE guest and NYC-based jazz pianist Gabriel Zucker!
Details:
Venue: 622 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10014; RSVP for apartment number.
Doors at 7:30pm, music at 8:00pm
Spaces are limited! Please RSVP on eventbrite, payment for tickets at door $25
Click here to RSVP at eventbrite
Bergamot Quartet Extended Feat. Elliot Cole
BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together.
Join us for the last Fall BQE on Saturday, 12/7, featuring Brooklyn-based composer Elliot Cole!
Venue: Cutelab, Brooklyn. (RSVP for address)
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
Bergamot Quartet Extended Feat. Sonya belaya
Bergamot Quartet Extended is a monthly concert series featuring BQ and our collaborators.
BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together.
Join us for another Fall BQE on Wednesday, 11/20, featuring Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Sonya Belaya!
Venue: Barbès
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
Tribeca New Music: Best in Score 2024
Season Opener: Tribeca New Music 2024 Festival
Join us for an exhilarating evening of contemporary music as Tribeca New Music launches its 2024-25 season with the Bergamot Quartet, performing live at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. This dynamic concert will feature the winning compositions from the 2024 TNM Young Composer Competition, as well as world premieres and recent works.
Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit
Are transitions a beginning or an ending? They’re both. The entrance is the exit.
2 premieres, 1 revival, and 11 NYCB dancers investigate.
BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.
All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.
Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit
Are transitions a beginning or an ending? They’re both. The entrance is the exit.
2 premieres, 1 revival, and 11 NYCB dancers investigate.
BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.
All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.
Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit
Are transitions a beginning or an ending? They’re both. The entrance is the exit.
2 premieres, 1 revival, and 11 NYCB dancers investigate.
BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.
All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.
Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit
Are transitions a beginning or an ending? They’re both. The entrance is the exit.
2 premieres, 1 revival, and 11 NYCB dancers investigate.
BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.
All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.
Washington Square Contemporary Music Society
Bergamot Quartet premieres new pieces by NYU faculty and students
Opera Saratoga: The Other Side of Silence Workshop Performance
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Opera Saratoga join forces this October to present a workshop performance of THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE by librettists Mark Steidl and Katherine Skovira and composer Robert Whalen. THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE is a new opera for synthetic and acoustic voices written by and for people who use Alternative Assistive Communication. The story draws direct inspiration from the life of Mark Steidl, a gender non-binary person who uses an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device to talk with the world.
Join us for the Workshop Performance on Wednesday, October 16th at 7pm in the acoustically stunning Concert Hall at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). The performance is free and open to the public; click here to reserve your ticket now.
This workshop performance is presented as part of the 2024 International Symposium On Assistive Technology For Music And Art (ISATMA).
Bergamot Quartet Extended Feat. Brian Ellis
Bergamot Quartet Extended is a monthly concert series featuring BQ and our collaborators.
BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together.
Join us for the first Fall 2024 edition of our BQE series on Sunday, 10/6, featuring composer-creator and coding-whiz Brian Ellis!
Venue: Sisters Bk
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
Flying South: featuring Samuel Torres Latin Chamber Ensemble
Samuel Torres Latin Chamber Ensemble Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
with special performance at Aaron Davis Hall
City College Center for the Arts proudly celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with Flying South, a musical performance by Latin Grammy Award-winning percussionist, composer and arranger, Samuel Torres and his Latin Chamber Ensemble. Torres will be joined by Bergamot Quartet and guest soloists Maria Raquel and Mauro Torres. Flying South will take us south of the border, integrating a mix of musical styles including llanera and cumbia from Colombian folklore, Venezuelan joropo, Peruvian festejo, Argentinian tango, Cuban bolero and New York salsa. The concert takes place on Friday, October 4, at 7 p.m. at Aaron Davis Hall, 129 Convent Avenue at West 135th Street. General admission tickets are $30 with discounts for seniors and students.
Alec Goldfarb: Fire Lapping at the Creek Album Release
DOORS 7PM | FIRST SET 8PM
Alec Goldfarb celebrates his widely acclaimed new release Fire Lapping at the Creek with the Alfredo Colon Quartet and Bergamot Quartet.
Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra- Premiere (Copy)
IN-PERSON
Thu 18 Jul 2024
7:30 - 9 p.m.
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
$30 Nonmembers, $20 Members. Students and Seniors: Use coupon code SENSTU at checkout for discount!
Join us for the world premiere of Filipinx composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra's Sky Islands, a musical tribute to our rich and fragile ecosystems inspired by the distinct rainforest habitats of Luzon, Philippines. The piece is composed for Ibarra’s eight-piece music ensemble, including the Extended Filippino Talking Gong Ensemble with Claire Chase on flute, Alex Peh on piano, and Levy Lorenzo and Ibarra on percussion, joined by the four-member Bergamot Quartet comprising violinists Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violist Amy Huimei Tan and cellist Irène Han. The piece features the interlocking rhythms and melodies of Philippine Northern style bamboo, gong, and flute music, performed on new sound sculptures of gong metals titled Floating Gardens. Sky Islands is commissioned by Asia Society, with support from Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, NYSCA, and NYFA Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Artists Grants.
Sky Islands is a musical call to action, drawing awareness to dwindling biodiversity, changing climate and global community practices. This program is part of the COAL + ICE exhibition and series of programs at Asia Society, Feb. 13-Aug. 11, 2024, designed to provoke thought and action on climate change.
Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra- Premiere
IN-PERSON
Thu 18 Jul 2024
7:30 - 9 p.m.
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
$30 Nonmembers, $20 Members. Students and Seniors: Use coupon code SENSTU at checkout for discount!
Join us for the world premiere of Filipinx composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra's Sky Islands, a musical tribute to our rich and fragile ecosystems inspired by the distinct rainforest habitats of Luzon, Philippines. The piece is composed for Ibarra’s eight-piece music ensemble, including the Extended Filippino Talking Gong Ensemble with Claire Chase on flute, Alex Peh on piano, and Levy Lorenzo and Ibarra on percussion, joined by the four-member Bergamot Quartet comprising violinists Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violist Amy Huimei Tan and cellist Irène Han. The piece features the interlocking rhythms and melodies of Philippine Northern style bamboo, gong, and flute music, performed on new sound sculptures of gong metals titled Floating Gardens. Sky Islands is commissioned by Asia Society, with support from Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, NYSCA, and NYFA Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Artists Grants.
Sky Islands is a musical call to action, drawing awareness to dwindling biodiversity, changing climate and global community practices. This program is part of the COAL + ICE exhibition and series of programs at Asia Society, Feb. 13-Aug. 11, 2024, designed to provoke thought and action on climate change.
Metropolis Ensemble- Biophony: Solstice
Art in the Garden: Music for Sunrise and Sunset at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
June 20, 2024
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue
Sunrise Performance: 5:00am at Cherry Esplanade
Sunset Performance: 7:30pm at Plant Family Collection
Free with Garden admission.
Bergamot Quartet Extended - Gabriel Zucker
Bergamot Quartet Extended is a monthly concert series featuring BQ and our collaborators.
BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together.
Join us for the Summer 2024 edition of our BQE series on Tuesday, 6/18, featuring our friend and brilliant jazz pianist Gabriel Zucker!
Venue: Cutelab NYC; RSVP for address
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
Tickets on eventbrite $15, tickets at door $18
Check out Gabriel's cool stuff below!
NYC AIDS Memorial - A Rememberance
Performances and works by: aALIY A. Muhammad, Kinan Abou-Afach with Bergamot Quartet & Elisa Sutherland, Jessica Hecht, Alex Stadler, AND MORE
Curated by Alex Stadler
Littlefield - Oropendola // Charlotte Jacobs // Bergamot Quartet // Emmerson
Join us for an evening of live music at littlefield!
Bergamot will be presenting our first-ever full set of originals by our very own Ledah, consisting of a delightful collage of classical, folk, and experimental music!
June 2, 2024, 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Doors: 7:00 pm | Show: 7:30 pm
Min. Age: 21+
MATA Festival 2024 - Changing Voices
Changing Voices responds to the idea of connections — composer to performer; humans to nature; technology to music — and how it is integrated into the fabric of music-making and always evolving. This concert’s performances feature the Bergamot String Quartet as well as select composers performing their own works.
Works Available by the Following Composers:
Danae Benson // Vasiliki Krimitza // Giuseppe Gallo-Balma // Angela Elizabeth Slater // Leo Chang // Daniel Sabzghabaei // Annie Aries Ruefenacht // Christian Quinones
About MATA 2024
INTEGRATION:
Music/Technology + Human/Nature
The 26th annual MATA Festival will be presented over four nights at Fotografiska New York, reflecting a newly forged relationship between the MATA Festival and the famed Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art and Culture in Gramercy. The theme of this year’s festival, conceived in alignment with the museum’s spring exhibition, is “INTEGRATION: Music/Technology + Human/Nature” – an exploration of human connection against the backdrop of ever-advancing technology that is changing how we relate to one another and make music.
CUNY Hunter College - Pocket Opera (Evening)
Pocket Opera
Directed by Michael Sheetz
FREE & Open to the Public
Location: Black Box 543N
CUNY Hunter College - Pocket Opera (Afternoon)
Pocket Opera
Directed by Michael Sheetz
FREE & Open to the Public
Location: Black Box 543N
Uri Gurvich at The Stone - NUBIA w/ Bergamot String Quartet
Uri Gurvich Residency at The Stone - NUBIA w/ Bergamot String Quartet feat. Leo Genovese, Peter Slavov, Ronen Itzik, Bergamot Quartet
Bergamot Quartet and Sō Percussion at Public Records
Program:
Ledah Finck, In The Brink (BQ + Jason Treuting on drumset)
Angélica Negrón, When the Sun Hits Just Right
Olivier Tarpaga, FēFē (Sō Percussion)
Dan Trueman, Songs That Are Hard To Sing
William Paterson University New Music Series
Music by Anna Roberts Gevalt, Caroline Shaw, Ledah Finck, Annika Socolofsky, and Angela Elizabeth Slater.
Zane Forshee and Bergamot Quartet
Embark on a sonic journey as award winning guitarist Zane Forshee teams up with the mesmerizing Bergamot Quartet in a concert that blends mind-bending guitar licks with the virtuoso prowess of a string quartet in an all American program that blurs the lines between classical and popular genres.
Tickets: $16.50
Venue: Manor Mill, 2029 Monkton Rd, Monkton, MD 21111