The Poiesis Quartet makes its Vancouver debut at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, October 25
Award-winning young string players champion their queer identities, performing both new commissions and canonical works
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Poiesis Quartet. Photo by Eden Davis
The Kay Meek Arts Centre hosts the Poiesis Quartet, one of the most distinctive young string quartets of its generation, on October 25 at 3 pm.
Formed at Oberlin Conservatory in 2022 and currently the quartet-in-residence at Curtis Institute of Music, Poiesis is the recipient of the 2026 Cleveland Quartet Award and the Grand Prize and Canadian Commission Prize at the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Expanding their repertoire with vibrant new works by emerging composers, and unreservedly championing their own LGBTQ+ identities, the four musicians infuse each performance with synchronicity, verve, and passionate expression.
On the program for the quartet’s Vancouver debut is Canadian composer Kevin Lau’s String Quartet No. 7, “Surfacing”, a Poiesis commission which premiered at New York’s Chautauqua Institution in 2025. The audience can also expect to hear Baltimore-based composer and installation artist Sky Macklay’s Many Many Cadences, as well as Prokofiev’s String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50 and Beethoven’s Quartet in F major, Op. 135.
Tickets and more details are available through the Kay Meek Arts Centre.
Post sponsored by Kay Meek Arts Centre.
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