Vijay Iyer
American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, and writer
Vijay Iyer ([ˌvɪdʒeɪ ˈaɪjər]; born Vijay Raghunathan, October 26, 1971) is a composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, writer, and professor based in New York City. The New York Times has called him a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway". Iyer received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, three Grammy nominations, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. He was voted Jazz Artist of the Year in the Downbeat magazine international critics' polls in 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018. In 2014, he was jointly appointed with tenure to Harvard University's departments of music and African American studies as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts.
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Works
- Abundance
- Accelerando
- Actions Speak
- Aftermath
- Age of Everything
- Algebra
- All the Names
- Ascent
- Atlantean Tropes
- Augury
- Autoscopy
- Becoming
- Bode
- Break Stuff
- Brute Facts
- Capacity (Lynn, Bronx)
- Cardio
- Charms
- Children of Flint
- Chorale
- Circular Argument
- Combat Breathing
- Composites
- Configurations
- Costume (Mike, Cambridge)
- Derelict Poetry (Maurice, Brooklyn)
- Desiring
- Dig the Say
- Diptych
- Down to the Wire
- Dream of an Ex-Ranger (William, Newton, MA)
- Dreams in Color (Lynn, Bronx)
- Duality
- End of the Tunnel
- Experience
- Far From Over
- Father Spirit
- For Amiri Baraka
- Frontlash
- Gauntlet
- Geese
- Good on the Ground
- Habeas Corpus
- Here (Mike, Cambridge)
- History Is Alive
- Hood
- Imagined Nations
- Inertia
- Infogee's Cakewalk
- Inside the Machine
- Into Action
- Invariants
- Invocation
- Journey Over Sands
- Kinship
- Los ojos
- Lude
- Macaca Please
- Machine Days
- March & Epilogue
- Meeting-Of-Rivers
- Mehndi
- Memorophilia
- Microchips and Bullock Carts
- Mountains
- Mutation I: Air
- Mutation II: Rise
- Mutation III: Canon
- Mutation IV: Chain
- Mutation IX: Descent
- Mutation V: Automata
- Mutation VI: Waves
- Mutation VII: Kernel
- Mutation VIII: Clade
- Mutation X: Time
- Mutations I-X for String Quartet, piano and electronics
- My Fire (Brad, Chester, NC)
- Mystery Woman
- Name (Lynn, Bronx)
- Nope
- Numbers (For Mumia)
- Off the Top
- On Patrol (Maurice, Brooklyn)
- One Thousand and One
- One for Blount
- Optimism
- Patterns
- Patton (Calvin, Massapequa, NY)
- Peripatetics
- Phalanx
- Playlist One (Resonance)
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion: Cristina's Interlude
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion: Part Five
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion: Part Four
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion: Part One
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion: Part Six
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion: Part Three
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion: Part Two
- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion: Part Zero
- Poles
- Postlude: Prayer
- Prelude: Heartpiece
- Prelude: Paradise Lost
- Proximity (Crossroads)
- Questions of Agency
- REM Killer (Kirk, Lexington, KY)
- Rataplan
- Relativist's Waltz
- Remembrance
- Requiem for an Insomniac (Maurice, Brooklyn)
- Revolutions
- Rosmarie
- Sadhu
- Segment for Sentiment #2
- Shush (Maurice, Brooklyn)
- Song for Midwood
- Spellbound and Sacrosanct, Cowrie Shells and the Shimmering Sea
- Starlings
- Stars Over Mars
- Stigmatism
- Stronger Than Itself
- Suite for Trayvon (And Thousands More) I. Slimm
- Suite for Trayvon (And Thousands More) II. Fallacies
- Suite for Trayvon (And Thousands More) III. Adagio
- Taking Flight
- Taste the Sea
- That Much Music
- The Big Almost
- The Prowl
- The Shape of Things
- The Weight of Things
- There Is a Man Slouching in the Stairway (Maurice, Brooklyn)
- Three Peas
- Threnody
- Tirtha
- Tormented Star of Morning (Maurice, Brooklyn)
- Touba
- Trident
- Trident: 2001
- Utopia of a Tired Man
- Vuln, Part 2
- Wake
- Walking With the Duppy (Rashan, Queens)
- When History Sleeps
- When We're Gone
- Window Text
- Without Lions
- Wrens