Vijay Iyer

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, a Grammy nomination, 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.

Defiant Life - 2025-03-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Vijay Iyer: Trouble - 2024-06-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Night Reign - 2024-05-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Compassion - 2024-02-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Love In Exile - 2023-03-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Uneasy - 2021-04-09T00:00:00.000000Z

The Transitory Poems (Live At Liszt Academy, Budapest / 2018) - 2019-03-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Far From Over - 2017-08-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Day of the Dead - 2016-05-20T00:00:00.000000Z

A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke - 2016-03-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Break Stuff - 2015-01-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Radhe Radhe - Rites Of Holi (Music For The Film By Prashant Bhargava) [Live] - 2014-11-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Wiring - 2014-08-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Wiring - 2014-08-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Mutations - 2014-02-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Holding it Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project - 2013-05-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Accelerando (Bonus Track Version) - 2012-02-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Accelerando - 2012-02-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Tirtha - 2011-02-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Solo - 2010-08-27T00:00:00.000000Z

Historicity (Bonus Track Edition) - 2009-11-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Historicity - 2009-10-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Tragicomic - 2008-04-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Still Life With Commentator - 2007-01-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Raw Materials - 2006-05-23T00:00:00.000000Z

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