Gathernyc: Poeisis Quartet at Museum Of Arts And Design

Fresh off their win at the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition, Poeisis Quartet treats GatherNYC audiences to its vital and energetic approach to music-making and programming. In collaboration with five emerging QTPOC (Queer/Trans People of Color) composers from their alma mater, Oberlin College & Conservatory, the Oberlin Commission Project expands the string quartet canon with approaches to music-making that are too often unheard. The Quartet says about the program: “As queer musicians and as Oberlin graduates, this project serves as our way of giving back to the communities who raised us and brought us together.”...

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Fresh off their win at the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition, Poeisis Quartet treats GatherNYC audiences to its vital and energetic approach to music-making and programming. In collaboration with five emerging QTPOC (Queer/Trans People of Color) composers from their alma mater, Oberlin College & Conservatory, the Oberlin Commission Project expands the string quartet canon with approaches to music-making that are too often unheard. The Quartet says about the program: “As queer musicians and as Oberlin graduates, this project serves as our way of giving back to the communities who raised us and brought us together.”

GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2025-2026 season includes 31 concerts that run from October 2025 through May 2026, with concerts held every Sunday at 11am in The Theater at MAD.

Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music performed by New York’s immensely talented artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome. Coffee and pastries are served before each performance at 10:30am.

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