Watch the webcast – streamed live at concert time.
The Oberlin Orchestra, conducted by Raphael Jiménez, features Oberlin Conservatory student musicians performing concert works for our largest ensemble. Special guests and Obies violinists Sarah Ma ’23 and Max Ball ’23, violist Jasper de Boor ’23, and cellist Drew Dansby ’24 of the Poiesis Quartet will join the Oberlin Orchestra for Adam’s Absolute Jest.
Poiesis Quartet Accolades:
- First Prize and Commission Prize winners of the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition
- 2024 joined the Concert Artists Guild roster for North American management as winners of the Louis and Susan Meisel Competition
- 2023 Grand Prize and Lift Every Voice Prize winners of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition
- 2023 Gold Medal and BIPOC Prize winners at the St. Paul String Quartet Competition
Program:
Carlos Simon Fate Now Conquers (2020)
John Adams Absolute Jest (2011)
Poiesis Quartet
Intermission
Angelica NegrónCampos Flotantes (2024)
Zhou TianTranscend (2019)
View the Friday, October 31, 2025 program
