Festival Orchestra Concerts Preview

Fall Intermezzo Season

Grand Prize Winners of the
2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition

 

POIESIS QUARTET

Sarah Ma, violin
Max Ball, violin
Jasper de Boor, viola
Drew Dansby, cello

Presented October 9, 2025 by The Colorado College Summer Music Festival

String Quartet, Op. 59, No. 3 - LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Andante con moto-Allegro vivace
Many Many Cadences - SKY MACKLAY
String Quartet No. 1, Calvary - COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON
String Quartet (Colorado premiere) - BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS
String Quartet No. 7 Surfacing (Colorado premiere) - KEVIN LAU
Commissioned by the Poiesis Quartet

Photo by Serena Nguyen

"What an incredible evening with the Poiesis Quartet! I was ready for top shelf music but the performance WAY exceeded all expectations. The interaction between the members and the programming both in selection and sequencing could not have been better.  Thanks so much…would love to hear them again, I couldn’t get enough of that quartet. After that concert the description of a “Bright Future” for chamber music is a great understatement."

 - Chris O'Shea, long-time patron and donor to the Colorado College Summer Music Festival

 Poiesis Quartet does it again...

 winning the Cleveland Quartet Award by Chamber Music America.

“It is my pleasure to announce this year’s award recipients, who represent distinguished leadership and artistic brilliance,” says Nicholas Phan, President of CMA’s Board of Directors. “These ensembles’ extraordinary achievements through vision, service, and artistry embody chamber music’s breadth and magnitude, as well as the restless innovation that propels and inspires the field’s future.”

Congratulations to the Poiesis Quartet!