Cardamom Quartet is a Boston-based ensemble engaged in reimagining the traditional canon and committed to sharing music with a wide variety of audiences. The quartet performs new and old works, including pieces written by members in the ensemble, with a focus on music of women composers. 

Cardamom Quartet has performed in libraries, art galleries, houses of worship, senior centers, school programs, farmers’ markets, and living rooms throughout New England. In 2018, the group received a grant from The Boston Foundation in order to perform at organizations serving women in need in the Boston area and their cellist won the New England Conservatory Alumni Award on behalf of the quartet. In 2017, they received a grant from the City of Boston & Boston Cultural Council to lead an art-science residency with students at Boston Arts Academy.

Cardamom Quartet has been featured on multiple series at the Boston Public Library and in a 2018 article in the journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music. In 2015 and 2016, they completed residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute and before that, they were the string quartet in residence at El Sistema Somerville, an immersive after-school music program for elementary school students. The quartet members originally convened to read music together, and found a shared love of tea and all things cozy, which led them to name the quartet after the queen of spices: cardamom.

You can learn more about this ensemble here.

LISA GODDARD, VIOLIN
RACHEL PANITCH, VIOLIN
GILLIAN GALLAGHER, VIOLA
ARIEL FRIEDMAN, CELLO