by Peter Feher
It’s not just the student performances at this year’s Kent Blossom Music Festival that are infused with youthful energy.
The Wednesday, July 10 faculty concert in Ludwig Recital Hall brimmed with optimistic, enthusiastic music-making. The Poiesis Quartet, the string ensemble-in-residence at Kent Blossom this summer (a role filled in previous seasons by the venerable Miami String Quartet), has been together for less than two years. Yet this fresh-faced group — violinists Sarah Ma and Max Ball, violist Jasper de Boor, and cellist Drew Dansby, all recent alums of Oberlin Conservatory — already plays like an ensemble with a long and storied history.