Arts on Main is hosting New York City-based string quartet the Bergamot Quartet in Gloucester this month as part of its Artist in Residence program.

The Artist in Residence program brings artists of different fields to stay in Gloucester while they work. Since arriving, the quartet has been busy rehearsing and promoting their debut album, “In the Brink.”

The quartet is made up of violinist/composer Ledah Finck, violinist Sarah Thomas and Amy Tan a violist, and cellist Irene Han. The four met during their graduate experience at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Currently, the members of the quartet are students at New York City’s Mannes School of Music where they are the Student Resident String Quartet. The four said they study under the guidance of the Faculty Resident String Quartet and founders of the program, the JACK Quartet.

The Peabody Institute reached out to Mollie Stewart of Arts on Main and recommended the quartet as it...