The Poiesis Quartet starts its Caramoor residency with a concert on 16 November
The Poiesis Quartet begins a year-long residency at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY, fresh from the group’s victory at the 2025 Banff International String Quartet competition where it won the Grand Prize and a cash award of CAD25,000 (£13,400), as well as a string of concert dates.
The ensemble’s first concert as quartet-in-residence will take place on 16 November as part of Caramoor’s Rosen House Concert Series.
The Cincinnati-based quartet, which comprises violinists Sarah Ying Ma and Max Ball, violist Jasper de Boor and cellist Drew Dansby, was formed just three years ago in 2022 at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. The group was also victorious at the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, just a year after it formed.
At its 16 November concert, the Poiesis Quartet will perform new and recently written music by composers including Brian Raphael Nabors, Kevin Lau, Sky Macklay, Max Ball and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson in a programme entitled ‘Surfacing’.
The quartet’s residency at Caramoor will comprise two ten-day visits where the musicians will work with students in local schools and give public performances, as well as a further concert in May 2026 and another during Caramoor’s summer season which will include the premiere of a newly commissioned work.
Further information is available at caramoor.org
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