MATAlab | Project Resonance by Bergamot Quartet

Name: MATAlab | Project Resonance by Bergamot Quartet
Start: 2025-03-29T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-29T20:00:00-04:00
Location: New York City

Schedule

Sat Mar 29 2025 at 03:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

New York City | Manhattan, NY

MATAlab is a new concert platform that embraces the casual atmosphere of a chamber music reading party. Composers, musicians and audiences mingling and discovering new music together. Part curated concert and part house party, musicians and composers are invited to sign up for the “house band”, propose works for the curated concert, or just show up that night with a score and/or instrument in hand. Audiences are invited to observe and witness first readings or second hearings to new chamber works. Join us in our new initiative and experience Tomorrow’s Music Today.

Project Resonance

Location: Lower Manhattan
3-6pm: composers’ workshop: new works for Hardanger quartet (participants to be selected by Bergamot Quartet via application)
6-7pm: meet & greet the Hardangers
7pm: concert performed by Bergamot Quartet and Dan Trueman
Refreshments provided

Announcing Bergamot Quartet’s Project Resonance, an ongoing exploration of traditional Scandinavian Hardanger instruments in the context of a modern string quartet. Via Project Resonance, Bergamot Quartet will commission, perform, and record new music to be played on this quartet of instruments, made by Lynn Berg and one of only a few sets like it in the world.

On March 29, 2025, Bergamot will hold the inaugural event of Project Resonance in NYC, presented by the MATA festival. This event will include a workshop for composers interested in the possibilities of creating new music for Bergamot playing the Hardanger instruments; a “meet and greet” where attendees can learn more about the history and construction of the instruments; and a performance by Bergamot and Dan Trueman.

Submissions for the workshop component open on January 5, 2025, and close February 5, 2025, capped at 40. Interested composers should submit short sketches through the form on Bergamot Quartet’s website (www.bergamotquartet.com). The project is not limited to music makers who are already well versed in the traditional Scandinavian music from which the Hardanger fiddle comes; through Project Resonance, Bergamot aims to widely share the sonic capabilities of these instruments, creating a new and unique repertoire while honoring their legacy.
All are welcome to apply/attend as space allows, from those interested in actively composing for Project Resonance to those simply curious about these beautiful instruments and how they sound as a string quartet (with 36 total strings between the four instruments!).