by Daniel Hathaway
The Poiesis Quartet, founded during Oberlin Conservatory’s Advanced Quartet Seminar program in fall 2022, has been on an award-winning roll beginning with the Grand Prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (2023) as well as Fischoff’s Senior Strings Gold Medal and the Lift Every Voice prizes, and the Gold Medal and BIPOC Prize at the 2023 St. Paul String Quartet Competition.
Most recently, they won the Louis & Susan Meisel Competition, which put them on the Concert Artists Guild roster for management in North America.
The Quartet — violinists Sarah Ma & Max Ball, violist Jasper de Boor & cellist Drew Dansby — have also been appointed to the faculty of the Kent Blossom Music Festival, and will hold master classes and give a 7:30 recital on Wednesday, July 10 in Ludwig Recital Hall at Kent State University. [Read more…]