Bergamot Quartet is fueled by a passion for exploring and advocating for the music of living composers, continually expanding the limits of the string quartet’s rich tradition in western classical music. With a priority given to music by women, they aim to place this new, genre-bending music in meaningful dialogue with the histories that precede it with creative programming, community-oriented audience building, and frequent commissioning.

Bergamot values partnership and collaboration as a vital element of their creative work. Highlights of their 2024-25 season are performances of percussionist Samuel Torres’ “A Dance For Birds” for Bergamot and Latin jazz sextet, which premiered at Lincoln Center in 2023, a collaboration with BalletCollective where Bergamot will become a three-viola, three-cello ensemble for Jonathan Bingham and Houston Thomas’s new work for the collective, the continuation of their monthly series Bergamot Quartet Extended, and appearances on the Tribeca New Music and Washington Square Contemporary Music Society in NYC. Recent projects include collaborating with The Crossing Choir for a premiere of David T. Little’s SIN-EATER commissioned by Penn Live Arts, a performance of Dan Trueman’s “Songs That Are Hard To Sing” with Sō Percussion at Public Records in Brooklyn, and a collaboration with composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra and her Talking Gong trio.

Bergamot Quartet is Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violins; Amy Tan, viola; and Irène Han, cello. Founded at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 2016, Bergamot Quartet is based in New York City and was the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music for 2020-2022.