Paul Pinto: OCTET
A virtuosically surgical multimedia work for amplified string quartet and multi-channel video by Paul Pinto performed by Bergamot Quartet and The Rhythm Method.
Commissioned by The Rhythm Method and Bergamot String Quartets, String Quartet No. 3 OCTET continues Paul Pinto’s playful exploration of video and theatrical chamber music. Just shy of an hour, the performance begins with a close-up on a tablescape of string instruments “operated” by four methodical musicians, their eight dexterous hands, and hundreds of pencils. Alternating through moments of Foreman-like precision and virtuosic irreverence, OCTET is a subtle and one-of-a-kind marriage of sonic slowness and visual anticipation.
Paul Pinto’s String Quartet No. 4: I PASS’D A CHURCH has become a cornerstone of The Rhythm Method’s repertoire, and was released on New Focus Recordings in 2024.
Credits for OCTET
Composed and directed by Paul Pinto
Zach Herchen, video and sound engineer
Performed by:
Bergamot Quartet (Friday at 7pm & 9pm)
Ledah Finck, violin
Sarah Thomas, violin
Martine Kinsella Thomas, viola
Irène Han, cello
The Rhythm Method (Saturday at 7pm & 9pm)
Leah Asher, violin
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Carrie Frey, viola
Meaghan Burke, cello
Run time: 50 minutes
Regular Tickets: $25
Students/Seniors: $15
Senior tickets for 65+, student tickets for students enrolled in a full-time program.
Paul Pinto: OCTET
A virtuosically surgical multimedia work for amplified string quartet and multi-channel video by Paul Pinto performed by Bergamot Quartet and The Rhythm Method.
Commissioned by The Rhythm Method and Bergamot String Quartets, String Quartet No. 3 OCTET continues Paul Pinto’s playful exploration of video and theatrical chamber music. Just shy of an hour, the performance begins with a close-up on a tablescape of string instruments “operated” by four methodical musicians, their eight dexterous hands, and hundreds of pencils. Alternating through moments of Foreman-like precision and virtuosic irreverence, OCTET is a subtle and one-of-a-kind marriage of sonic slowness and visual anticipation.
Paul Pinto’s String Quartet No. 4: I PASS’D A CHURCH has become a cornerstone of The Rhythm Method’s repertoire, and was released on New Focus Recordings in 2024.
Credits for OCTET
Composed and directed by Paul Pinto
Zach Herchen, video and sound engineer
Performed by:
Bergamot Quartet (Friday at 7pm & 9pm)
Ledah Finck, violin
Sarah Thomas, violin
Martine Kinsella Thomas, viola
Irène Han, cello
The Rhythm Method (Saturday at 7pm & 9pm)
Leah Asher, violin
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Carrie Frey, viola
Meaghan Burke, cello
Run time: 50 minutes
Regular Tickets: $25
Students/Seniors: $15
Senior tickets for 65+, student tickets for students enrolled in a full-time program.
Liam Elliot : 'Resin'
Princeton Sound Kitchen presents
Liam Elliot: ‘Resin’
An exhibition of sound installations by graduate student composers in the CoLab at the Lewis Arts Complex from Friday, October 24 – Sunday, October 26, 2025, culminates in a concert event featuring Princeton University graduate student composer Liam Elliot’s new work, ‘Resin,’ a piece which brings together Bergamot Quartet’s unique Hardanger instruments and Elliot’s newly created string feedback instrument to create a musical environment of sympathetic resonances. Sound installations by Gulli Björnsson, Sophie Cash, Ellie Cherry, Liam Elliot, and Hannah Ishizaki.
New works by
Gulli Björnsson
Sophie Cash
Ellie Cherry
Liam Elliot
Hannah Ishizaki
Performed by
Bergamot Quartet
Liam Elliot
Jason Treuting
Dan Trueman
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Start Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: The CoLab, Lewis Arts Complex, 122 Alexander Street, Princeton, NJ, 08544
Ticketing: Free, unticketed
Turn it Out with Tiler Peck & Friends
Critically acclaimed on two continents, this “generous, boundless, turbo-charged” program (The Spectator) presents a showcase of 21st century choreography curated by ballerina Tiler Peck and featuring dance icons India Bradley, Chun Wai Chan, Michelle Dorrance, Lex Ishimoto, Roman Mejia, Mira Nadon, and more.
The program kicks off with maestro William Forsythe’s interpretation of the sinuous music of James Blake with lightning precision and force in The Barre Project, Blake Works II. Next up is Peck’s own Thousandth Orange, set to live music by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw. Then, Peck stars in West Coast legend Alonzo King’s electric pas de deux Swift Arrow. The show closes with the irresistible City Center commission Time Spell, a collaboration between Peck and tap dance icon Michelle Dorrance, with Emmy-nominated Jillian Meyers and a powerhouse cast.
Originally created for Peck's 2022 Artists at the Center residency, “the ballerina who can stop time” (The New York Times) returns to City Center with this thrilling, fan favorite blockbuster.
Turn it out with Tiler peck & friends
Critically acclaimed on two continents, this “generous, boundless, turbo-charged” program (The Spectator) presents a showcase of 21st century choreography curated by ballerina Tiler Peck and featuring dance icons India Bradley, Chun Wai Chan, Michelle Dorrance, Lex Ishimoto, Roman Mejia, Mira Nadon, and more.
The program kicks off with maestro William Forsythe’s interpretation of the sinuous music of James Blake with lightning precision and force in The Barre Project, Blake Works II. Next up is Peck’s own Thousandth Orange, set to live music by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw. Then, Peck stars in West Coast legend Alonzo King’s electric pas de deux Swift Arrow. The show closes with the irresistible City Center commission Time Spell, a collaboration between Peck and tap dance icon Michelle Dorrance, with Emmy-nominated Jillian Meyers and a powerhouse cast.
Originally created for Peck's 2022 Artists at the Center residency, “the ballerina who can stop time” (The New York Times) returns to City Center with this thrilling, fan favorite blockbuster.
Turn it Out with Tiler Peck & Friends
Critically acclaimed on two continents, this “generous, boundless, turbo-charged” program (The Spectator) presents a showcase of 21st century choreography curated by ballerina Tiler Peck and featuring dance icons India Bradley, Chun Wai Chan, Michelle Dorrance, Lex Ishimoto, Roman Mejia, Mira Nadon, and more.
The program kicks off with maestro William Forsythe’s interpretation of the sinuous music of James Blake with lightning precision and force in The Barre Project, Blake Works II. Next up is Peck’s own Thousandth Orange, set to live music by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw. Then, Peck stars in West Coast legend Alonzo King’s electric pas de deux Swift Arrow. The show closes with the irresistible City Center commission Time Spell, a collaboration between Peck and tap dance icon Michelle Dorrance, with Emmy-nominated Jillian Meyers and a powerhouse cast.
Originally created for Peck's 2022 Artists at the Center residency, “the ballerina who can stop time” (The New York Times) returns to City Center with this thrilling, fan favorite blockbuster.
David linard & Bergamot Quartet
Come enjoy an intimate concert in a Bed-Stuy brownstone, as pianist/composer David Linard (www.davidlinard.com) celebrates the release of his EP, "For B", supported by sought-after contemporary music specialists Bergamot Quartet (www.bergamotquartet.com). Bergamot plays their set of Norwegian Hardanger instruments, one of only a few quartet sets in the world of these folk instruments.
Honoring Tania León
Tania León is a lauded composer, conductor, educator, arts advocate, and the newest recipient of the William Schuman Award of Columbia University School of the Arts. This concert celebrates her transformative contributions to the field with a program showcasing the vitality and depth of her vibrant body of work
New Music on the Point | September Residency
5-Day Composer Residency in Vermont
We will be back at NMOP to work with early to mid-career composers to perform and record their works.
Oropendola with Bergamot Quartet
Come join us in celebrating Oropendola’s album release show for Swimming
Wildflower Composers Festival
Come work with us!
Composers in the 2025 program will engage in daily seminars, take composition lessons, learn from experts about compositional topics like film scoring and writing with text, and workshop their compositions with professional performers.
All composers will have the opportunity to write a new piece that will be professionally premiered and recorded on the last day of the program. Students who live on campus also have opportunities to use the music labs and practice rooms in Presser Hall during off hours.
All 2025 students will have the opportunity to compose a new piece for the full Bergamot quartet or a subset!
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.
Raritan River Music Festival - Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo with Bergamot Quartet
Music from the NEW World: 21st-Century Masterpieces
Music by Lowell Liebermann, Daniel Binelli, Ledah Finck, Caroline Shaw, Payton MacDonald
(string quartet, guitar duo, sextets)
Saturday, May 14 at 7:30 PM
Pricing: $25 in-person ticket/$25 online-video recording ticket (plus fees)
Raritan River Music is the national winner of the “Award for Adventurous Programming” presented by Chamber Music America/ASCAP. Building on that tradition of dynamic programming with an eye to the future of the art form, this concert by Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo and Bergamot Quartet will feature RRM-commissioned music by Daniel Binelli and Lowell Liebermann composed for the Duo, along with the premiere performance of a new string quartet by NJ composer Payton MacDonald, plus selections by Bergamot violinist and composer Ledah Finck and Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning Princeton University alum Caroline Shaw.
For more information:
Phone: 908-213-1100
E-Mail: info@raritanrivermusic.org
BERGAFEST 2025
We cordially invite you to our annual fundraising event!
We can't wait to share with you all our latest happenings, but also some of our recent tunes on both our western classical instruments, as well as the Hardanger fiddles. We will also be joined by guest collaborator Raquel Acevedo Klein on a few numbers!
Program:
Opening set on Hardanger fiddles- tunes by Dan Trueman and Andy Clausen.
A set of songs with Raquel Acevedo Klein including original compositions by Raquel and Caroline Shaw.
Closing set- Helmut Lachenmann, String Quartet No. 3 Grido
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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!
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
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
BQ NYC Salon Concert
We are excited to present an intimate evening of some of our favorite tunes in the heart of NYC!
Details:
Venue: SoHo, NYC (RSVP for address)
Doors at 7:00pm, music at 7:30pm
Spaces are limited! Please RSVP on eventbrite, suggested payment for tickets at door $20
Sara Mearns | Artists at the Center
Bergamot Quartet will be joining Sara Mearns, principal dancer at New York City Ballet (NYCB), for NYCC’s Artist at the Center, on a world premiere by Bessie Award winner Jamar Roberts—who makes a comeback to dance alongside her and, Jeroboam Bozeman, Ghrai DeVore-Stokes, and Anna Greenberg. This love letter to dance and those who dedicate their lives to its craft is set to live music by Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary classical composer Caroline Shaw.
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
BQ in NOLA - Tulane University Residency, Recital of Student Composer works
Venue: Tulane University Dixon Annex Recital Hall
Time: 7:30PM
BQ in NOLA - Tulane University Residency, Open rehearsal
Venue: Tulane University
Time: TBC