Artistic Personnel:
Vijay Iyer piano, Fender Rhodes
Wadada Leo Smith trumpet
Rudresh Mahanthappa alto saxophone
Dual Identities: A Conversation With Jazz Soulmates Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa via Pitchfork
Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer was described by Pitchfork as "one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today," and by the Los Angeles Weekly as a boundless and deeply important young star. The American-born son of Indian immigrants, he won an unprecedented five major awards in the 2012 DownBeat International Critics Poll and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Global Indian by GQ India.
Iyer has released sixteen albums as a leader; his most recent, 2012's Accelerando, is an intense, visceral and widely acclaimed follow-up to 2009's multiple award-winning Historicity, both featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio. Historicity was named Jazz Album of the Year in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and by dozens of reviewers worldwide.
Iyer has collaborated with fellow forward-thinker Ambrose Akinmusire (featured in 2012's Winter Fest); music pioneer Steve Coleman; new-music experimenter John Zorn; hip-hop innovator Dead Prez; South Asian producer Talvin Singh; and prominent filmmakers, choreographer, and poets. A polymath whose career has spanned the sciences, the humanities and the arts, Iyer holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the cognitive science of music from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2013, he will become Director of Banff Centre's International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, founded by piano legend Oscar Peterson.
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Vijay Iyer’s musical training from age of 3, his academic background in physics and a lifelong passion for pushing the envelope all come together in performances that are arrestingly immediate and always revealing. The New York Times has described this SF Performances Artist-in-Residence's high-energy, driven style as “quick coursing and strict rhythm dodging,” and his highly acclaimed 2010 album Solo was “…a grand statement, and with it he has fulfilled his promise.” (Boston Globe)
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Vijay Iyer piano, Fender Rhodes
Wadada Leo Smith trumpet
Rudresh Mahanthappa alto saxophone
Dual Identities: A Conversation With Jazz Soulmates Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa via Pitchfork
Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer was described by Pitchfork as "one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today," and by the Los Angeles Weekly as a boundless and deeply important young star. The American-born son of Indian immigrants, he won an unprecedented five major awards in the 2012 DownBeat International Critics Poll and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Global Indian by GQ India.
Iyer has released sixteen albums as a leader; his most recent, 2012's Accelerando, is an intense, visceral and widely acclaimed follow-up to 2009's multiple award-winning Historicity, both featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio. Historicity was named Jazz Album of the Year in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and by dozens of reviewers worldwide.
Iyer has collaborated with fellow forward-thinker Ambrose Akinmusire (featured in 2012's Winter Fest); music pioneer Steve Coleman; new-music experimenter John Zorn; hip-hop innovator Dead Prez; South Asian producer Talvin Singh; and prominent filmmakers, choreographer, and poets. A polymath whose career has spanned the sciences, the humanities and the arts, Iyer holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the cognitive science of music from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2013, he will become Director of Banff Centre's International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, founded by piano legend Oscar Peterson.
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Vijay Iyer’s musical training from age of 3, his academic background in physics and a lifelong passion for pushing the envelope all come together in performances that are arrestingly immediate and always revealing. The New York Times has described this SF Performances Artist-in-Residence's high-energy, driven style as “quick coursing and strict rhythm dodging,” and his highly acclaimed 2010 album Solo was “…a grand statement, and with it he has fulfilled his promise.” (Boston Globe)
Artistic Personnel:
Vijay Iyer piano, Fender Rhodes
Wadada Leo Smith trumpet
Rudresh Mahanthappa alto saxophone
Dual Identities: A Conversation With Jazz Soulmates Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa via Pitchfork
Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer was described by Pitchfork as "one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today," and by the Los Angeles Weekly as a boundless and deeply important young star. The American-born son of Indian immigrants, he won an unprecedented five major awards in the 2012 DownBeat International Critics Poll and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Global Indian by GQ India.
Iyer has released sixteen albums as a leader; his most recent, 2012's Accelerando, is an intense, visceral and widely acclaimed follow-up to 2009's multiple award-winning Historicity, both featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio. Historicity was named Jazz Album of the Year in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and by dozens of reviewers worldwide.
Iyer has collaborated with fellow forward-thinker Ambrose Akinmusire (featured in 2012's Winter Fest); music pioneer Steve Coleman; new-music experimenter John Zorn; hip-hop innovator Dead Prez; South Asian producer Talvin Singh; and prominent filmmakers, choreographer, and poets. A polymath whose career has spanned the sciences, the humanities and the arts, Iyer holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the cognitive science of music from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2013, he will become Director of Banff Centre's International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, founded by piano legend Oscar Peterson.
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Vijay Iyer’s musical training from age of 3, his academic background in physics and a lifelong passion for pushing the envelope all come together in performances that are arrestingly immediate and always revealing. The New York Times has described this SF Performances Artist-in-Residence's high-energy, driven style as “quick coursing and strict rhythm dodging,” and his highly acclaimed 2010 album Solo was “…a grand statement, and with it he has fulfilled his promise.” (Boston Globe)
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Vijay Iyer piano, Fender Rhodes
Wadada Leo Smith trumpet
Rudresh Mahanthappa alto saxophone
Dual Identities: A Conversation With Jazz Soulmates Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa via Pitchfork
Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer was described by Pitchfork as "one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today," and by the Los Angeles Weekly as a boundless and deeply important young star. The American-born son of Indian immigrants, he won an unprecedented five major awards in the 2012 DownBeat International Critics Poll and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Global Indian by GQ India.
Iyer has released sixteen albums as a leader; his most recent, 2012's Accelerando, is an intense, visceral and widely acclaimed follow-up to 2009's multiple award-winning Historicity, both featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio. Historicity was named Jazz Album of the Year in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and by dozens of reviewers worldwide.
Iyer has collaborated with fellow forward-thinker Ambrose Akinmusire (featured in 2012's Winter Fest); music pioneer Steve Coleman; new-music experimenter John Zorn; hip-hop innovator Dead Prez; South Asian producer Talvin Singh; and prominent filmmakers, choreographer, and poets. A polymath whose career has spanned the sciences, the humanities and the arts, Iyer holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the cognitive science of music from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2013, he will become Director of Banff Centre's International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, founded by piano legend Oscar Peterson.
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Vijay Iyer’s musical training from age of 3, his academic background in physics and a lifelong passion for pushing the envelope all come together in performances that are arrestingly immediate and always revealing. The New York Times has described this SF Performances Artist-in-Residence's high-energy, driven style as “quick coursing and strict rhythm dodging,” and his highly acclaimed 2010 album Solo was “…a grand statement, and with it he has fulfilled his promise.” (Boston Globe)
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