Ledah Finck

Artist Statement

I am a classical- and jazz-trained violinist, violist, and composer. I write songs and concert music, and have had a deep practice of improvised music for the last decade. I grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains playing Celtic and old-time fiddle. These elements each contribute to my artistic output, and by creating my own music, I strive to build a very personal sound world in which the vast joy I find through listening, collaborating, performing, and writing is at the center of something that’s more than a collection of disparate influences. Current projects include development of a second album with Freddy & Sally, a third solo album, and concert music for Bergamot Quartet.

Still from Freddy & Sally's video "Sycamore"

Bio

Ledah Finck is a violinist, violist, improviser, and composer based in NYC. A passionate performer, creator, and curator of contemporary classical music, she plays violin with and is a founding member of the contemporary-music string quartet Bergamot Quartet. She participates regularly with a number of other ensembles as a performer and composer, including Tropos (“outer-space chamber music” quartet with a jazz/improvising foundation), Earspace (new music ensemble based in North Carolina), and Freddy & Sally (acoustic duo with Eli Greenhoe, playing original folk-inspired songs). Always seeking playfulness and community in her artistic pursuits, Ledah’s roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains have shaped her creative philosophy and aesthetic. She holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in violin performance and composition from the Peabody Conservatory, and completed the Mannes School of Music’s Graduate String Quartet in Residence fellowship with Bergamot Quartet. She plays a violin, viola, and hardanger d’amore all made by her father, David Finck.

www.ledahfinck.com

Eli Greenhoe

Artist Statement

I’m guided by an interest in finding ecstatic ways to coax unity and focus out of complexity. I believe this is the manner in which writing music most closely resembles magical ritual. I think that one of the most fundamental experiences of being a conscious being is watching something specific and comprehensible emerge out of a vast field of information—like finding meaning in the shapes of clouds, or deciphering patterns of movement from footprints in snow. In making art we adorn that property of sentience and makes it sumptuous. In organizing the elusive and the overwhelming, we peek behind nature’s curtain. We observe and model the occult and obscure machinations of reality.

A page from the score of a piece for string orchestra, electric guitar, harp, piano, and percussion

Bio

Eli Greenhoe is a composer, producer, conductor and guitarist from Brooklyn, New York. His works have been commissioned and performed by loadbang, Ensemble Dal Niente, Bergamot Quartet, and Contemporaneous, among many others. He has received fellowships, residencies, and recognition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, I-Park, ASCAP, Bang on a Can, Beth Morrison Projects, and Yale University. As a producer, he collaborates regularly with musicians from a wide variety of traditions. His recent record Orchids (with Hans Bilger) was released on Adhyâropa records in 2025. Eli is currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) at the Yale School of Music.

eligreenhoe.com