icarus Quartet

05/25/2026

Some pretty sick grooves 👽🎹🎶 in ‘s absolute BANGER “Split Screen” — snagged from rehearsals for our sold out show in Hamden as a part of ’s Frank J. Natale concert series last month.

05/10/2026

Join us in wishing the happiest of birthdays to super dad, super professor, super percussionist and SUPERHUMAN ;) with this homemade GIF (?) of his sick moves! Congratulations on another year around the sun (flying neither too close nor too far from it…) to this goofy, jiu-jitsu fighting, drummer extraordinaire.

01/19/2026

In advance of our Wilderness Suite Premiere next month at presented by , we’d love to continue introducing our fantastic video artists! Meet Rohan Pathare, who is creating an INCREDIBLE video to be played alongside our performance of ’s “from point A to point B.” Read more about Rohan below, and remember to snag your tickets for Wilderness Suite on February 20, 21, and 22 in Baltimore at the link in our bio!

Rohan Pathare （.i.died) is an Indian-American video artist, musician and photographer living in Baltimore, MD. His work involves interactivity, emotional responsiveness and chance.

01/15/2026

With our Wilderness Suite premiere rapidly approaching, we wanted to share a video of geographer Teresa Cavazos Cohn providing wonderful insight into the inspiration behind the project!

We’ll be premiering this spectacular nine-movement work by at Baltimore’s on three shows presented by – Feb 20, 21, and 22. Snag your tickets today!

🎟️link in bio

12/30/2025

We truly had the most magical year performing together. We wanted to highlight some of our fantastic collaborations heading into 2026 — and show case some of our favorite performance pics to boot!

Featuring shots from our 2025 shows at , , , , , and , and , and just some of our fantastic 2025 collaborators: , , , , , and !

We hope that you’ll help bring us into the new year by supporting the last two days of our end of year fundraiser! All proceeds will go towards funding our 2026-2027 iQ Test program — and check out the releases from our 203-2024 Scholars and .ali.music on our Youtube at the link in our bio.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from your iQ crew (plus furry friends)! We hope everyone is having a restful, family-filled winter holiday complete with great music and food! If you need some ideas re: music, might we suggest sliding over to our Youtube and checking out our new iQ Test music videos by and .ali.music ✨✨✨

12/20/2025

We are SO EXCITED to finally drop the MUSIC VIDEO for the incredible work composed by our 2023-24 iQ Test Scholar, Che Buford’s luminous “Home Portraits.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5PsVKCE1K4

Additionally, we hope that you will help support our next round of iQ tests by donating to the end of year campaign on instagram, facebook, or at the link in our bio!

Audio recording, editing, and mixing: Ed Tetreault
Videographer: Adam Green
Video editing: Jeff Stern

“In conceiving ‘Home Portraits,’ I embarked on a reflective exploration of my year-long experience living in Crown Heights post-graduation and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdown. This introspective journey led me to contemplate the memories of my upbringing, the routines I cultivated, and the transformations my neighborhood underwent over the past decade. As a native New Yorker, the inevitable reckoning with gentrification brings forth feelings of loss, displacement, and the impact of violence and destruction.

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For ‘Home Portraits,’ I deliberately avoided the approach of creating an “angry” gentrification piece with the intent to persuade a specific viewpoint. Instead, my focus was on crafting a narrative that intimately references key locations within the radius of my upbringing. I sought to illuminate the essence of memories and the emotions tethered to these places. The piece references my building, ‘Tivoli Towers,’ symbolizing gradual change and loss. The vibrant Brooklyn Botanical Garden, situated just a block away, invokes various childhood memories and the glowing magical nature of the garden. Strolls along Franklin Avenue and Montgomery Street trigger recollections of the lingering scents of cinnamon and spices from a now-vanished spice factory. And finally, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle line, passing an overpass around the corner from my childhood home, where my brother and I would excitedly wave at the passing conductor. “

— Che Buford

2023-24 iQ Test Scholar Che Buford's "Home Portraits"Commissioned by icarus Quartet for the 2023-24 iQ TestsPremiered on March 3, 2024 at the Music in the Va...

12/15/2025

We are beyond excited to share more news about our upcoming project Wilderness Suite! With the world premiere rapidly approaching we are looking forward to proudly sharing six years worth of hard work and collaboration.

SAVE THE DATE!!🗓️

Wilderness Suite World Premieres
February 20-21, 2026: 8:00pm
February 22, 2026; 2:30pm
The Voxel, Baltimore, MD

Our end of year donations are still open! Please consider supporting our iQ Tests program through the link in our bio so that we can continue to offer amazing artistic and educational opportunities for the next generation of talented iQ Scholars!

12/12/2025

icarus Quartet has flown high this year: two pianos, two percussionists, and countless moments of discovery. Your support of our mission has helped enable so many artistic and educational initiatives – we’re currently raising funds through the remainder of 2025 for our iQ Tests program, the source of 10 collaborations with the incredibly gifted composers in residence as our iQ Test Scholars. We hope you’ll consider making a contribution using the link below to help us continue our flight into the new year, where we’ll be on the lookout for the next two iQ Test Scholars to take under our wings. ❤️🪽

Donate here! https://www.facebook.com/share/17a41mtps7/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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