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Post-Concert Q&A: Concert will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with the performers and composers. All are welcome to attend. We expect to begin shortly after 4:15PM ET.
Here is the Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92290561437
Note that it is in webinar format, which means you will not be seen or heard.

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Community Concerts at Second Presents: icarus Quartet
Sunday, April 25th, 2021, 3:30PM ET

Special thanks to the generous sponsors of today's concert:
Leslie and Tom Owsley
Bonnie and John Boland


In this performance, icarus Quartet performs three world premiere works by Stephen Downing, Yiyang Wang, and Liliya Ugay. Downing and Wang were selected through icarus Quartet's iQ Test commissioning competition for student composers; Ugay's work reflects on her experience with new motherhood. Played on a wild mix of instruments -- including toy pianos, synthesizer, marimba, vibraphone, and an Elmo doll -- these works are as beautiful as they are playful.

PROGRAM
Stephen Downing
The sky, paler than yesterday

Yiyang Wang
Unread

Liliya Ugay
Sleep n Play

To read more about icarus Quartet and the composers on today's concert, please visit our website: https://rb.gy/vchzoh


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icarus Quartet
Like the mythological figure from which it draws its name, the half piano/half percussion icarus Quartet dares to fly towards the sun, aspiring to new heights of artistry. Following their Carnegie Hall debut, composer Paul Lansky simply remarked, “This is music making of the highest order.”

Winner of the 2019 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition, icarus has given new life to old masterpieces as well as the future of their instrumentation. What started as a graduate school project that Martin Bresnick regarded as “one of the best student performances of any work I have ever heard” has now toured professionally throughout the United States.

Their 2020-21 season includes performances at Princeton Sound Kitchen, Music at the Forefront, Delaware County Community College’s New Music Concert Series, and more. Fostering the development of new works through commissioning and collaborating with composers is at the core of the iQ mission, and this season will see the culmination of some of these endeavors with world premieres by Liliya Ugay, Natalie Dietterich, David Crowell, Douglas Knehans, Ruby Fulton, and the two winners of the inaugural iQ Tests program. The Quartet will further serve as the first ever ensemble to hold the Klingler Electroacoustic Residency at Bowling Green State University.

Larry Weng, Yevgeny Yontov, Matt Keown, and Jeff Stern are all celebrated soloists in their own rights, and together they have found a special chemistry and inimitable joy playing chamber music. They are dedicated to the discovery, creation, and performance of new music, but what distinguishes their approach to contemporary music is a strong training and background in the classical genre. icarus Quartet is committed to performing new works with a studied and convincing interpretation that mirrors the validity of works with performance practices developed over centuries.