Event Name: Poiesis Quartet: Love Letter
Event Locator: 2026-ADRNWK

Poiesis Quartet, performers

Jacob Kaplan, lighting design

Co-presented by CCM and Chamber Music Cincinnati 

Love Letter is the Cincinnati premiere of the Poiesis Quartet’s Oberlin Commission Project, an initiative to expand the string quartet canon with commissions from five Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC) who are all students or alumni of Oberlin Conservatory: Zola Saadi-Klein, Daniel Lasagna, Maya Irizarry Lambright, Max Lang, and Calvin Ray Shawler. This concert marks Poiesis’ final performance as CCM Graduate Quartet-in-Residence and features a special collaboration with Jacob Kaplan from the CCM Lighting Design Department. The Cohen Theater will be illuminated with an immersive lighting display accompanying all five works. The concert will also include brief remarks from three of the composers who will be in attendance. 

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