With a focus on expanding the string quartet repertoire with vibrant new works by emerging composers, the Poiesis Quartet infuses each performance with unique moments of synchronicity and verve. The Poiesis Quartet is the First Prize and Commission Prize winners of the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition.

Widely regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious quartet competitions, the BISQC crowns the finest emerging string quartets and helps launch them onto the world stage. Past winners include acclaimed ensembles like the Dover and Danish String Quartets. SBMA’s audience will have the rare chance to experience the next rising stars in chamber music, fresh from their triumph in Banff in August 2025 and as part of their international winner’s tour. Program to be announced.

Poiesis Quartet – performers:
Sarah Ying Ma (she/they), violin
Max Bell (he/they), violin
Jasper de Boor (any pronouns), viola
Drew Dansby (he/him), cello

Program:
Many Many Cadences by Sky Macklay

String Quartet op. 71 no. 2 in D Major by Joseph Haydn

String Quartet No. 7 "Surfacing" by Kevin Lau
*Commissioned by the Poiesis Quartet

Pisachi (Reveal) by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate

String Quartet No. 2 in F Major by Sergei Prokofiev

Chamber Music Concerts at SBMA are supported by the Curletti Fund