The Bergamot Quartet
The Bergamot Quartet
Program
Caroline Shaw (1982)
Valencia
Caroline Adelaide Shaw is an American violinist, singer, and composer. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices, parts of which were also used in the German-language Netflix original series “Dark.”
Suzanne Farrin (1976)
Undecim
Suzanne Farrin’s music explores the interior worlds of instruments and the visceral potentialities of sound. Her music has been performed by some of the great musicians of today on stages across Europe and North and South America.
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)
String Quartet in E flat Major final movement
Fanny Mendelssohn -Hensel- Composer Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister Fanny developed a close relationship that was to endure throughout their lives. While Fanny’s gender prohibited her from enjoying the same social opportunities or support in developing her musical gifts, her talents appeared to be nearly as formidable as those of her more famous brother. The fact that from very early in their lives, and until Fanny’s death, Felix would regularly submit his compositions to Fanny’s discerning musical eye and ear, taking her critical advice to heart, and never hesitating to modify or excise entirely material that she found questionable. Felix began to refer to his older sister as “Minerva,” the Roman goddess of wisdom, for her highly developed musical and intellectual insight.
Jessie Montgomery (1981)
Break Away
Jessie Montgomery -Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and her works are performed frequently around the world by leading musicians and ensembles. Jessie performs with the Sphinx Award Winning Catalyst String Quartet
Ledah Finck
In the Brink
Ledah Finck – A co-founder of the Bergamot String Quartet and experimental duo The Witches. As a composer, she has been commissioned by Imani Winds, Alarm Will Sound/Now Hear This, the Bridge Ensemble, and The Peabody Community Chorus. Her music embodies a desire to create and share a sound-world in which the classical tradition, the folk music with which she grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and an extensive improvisatory sensibility can be in productive dialogue.
Felipe Lara
Corde Vocale
Felipe Lara -Praised by the New York Times as “a gifted Brazilian-American modernist” whose works are “brilliantly realized”, “technically formidable, wildly varied”, and possess “voluptuous, elemental lyricism”, Felipe Lara’s work, which includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, film, electroacoustic, and popular music engages in producing new musical contexts by means of (re)interpreting and translating acoustical and extra-musical properties of familiar source sonorities into project-specific forces
Jessie Montgomery
Voodoo Dolls
Uniquely combining the superlative technique of a Classical Virtuoso with his prowess in Jazz, world music and free improvisation, pianist, composer and arranger Matt Herskowitz has carved out a unique and personal voice in music. Over the course of the last decade, Matt has produced a series of Critically-Acclaimed recordings, premiered his works in settings from New York’s Central Park to Germany’s Koln Philharmonie, collaborated with top classical, jazz and pop artists, and has performed at Music Festivals across the Globe.
Works to Include;
Uniquely combining the superlative technique of a Classical Virtuoso with his prowess in Jazz, world music and free improvisation, pianist, composer and arranger Matt Herskowitz has carved out a unique and personal voice in music. Over the course of the last decade, Matt has produced a series of Critically-Acclaimed recordings, premiered his works in settings from New York’s Central Park to Germany’s Koln Philharmonie, collaborated with top classical, jazz and pop artists, and has performed at Music Festivals across the Globe.
Works to Include;
Uniquely combining the superlative technique of a Classical Virtuoso with his prowess in Jazz, world music and free improvisation, pianist, composer and arranger Matt Herskowitz has carved out a unique and personal voice in music. Over the course of the last decade, Matt has produced a series of Critically-Acclaimed recordings, premiered his works in settings from New York’s Central Park to Germany’s Koln Philharmonie, collaborated with top classical, jazz and pop artists, and has performed at Music Festivals across the Globe.
Works to Include;
An Evening with Zuill Bailey “Celebrating Las Cruces,” performing Bach and More!
Engaging with the Audience with Stories and Music and El Paso Pro-Musica’s Collaboration with Las Cruces
Featuring UTEP’s Finest from the Center for Arts Entrepreneurship
Special Performance by Grammy Award Winning Cellist Zuiill Bailey and Eduard Zilberkant, Piano
