标题: 维杰-艾尔 爵士钢琴家和作曲家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-4-27 01:18 标题: 维杰-艾尔 爵士钢琴家和作曲家 Vijay Iyer
Jazz Pianist and Composer | Class of 2013
Forging a new conception of the practice of American music in compositions for his ensembles, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and scholarly work.
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Title
Jazz Pianist and Composer
Location
New York, New York
Age
41 at time of award
Area of Focus
Music Performance and Composition
Website
vijay-iyer.com
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Published September 25, 2013
ABOUT VIJAY'S WORK
Vijay Iyer is a pianist, composer, bandleader, electronic musician, and writer forging a new conception of jazz and American creative music through an eclectic oeuvre that includes compositions for his own and other ensembles, collaborations across multiple genres and disciplines, and scholarly research on the act of listening. An ardent investigator of musical communities, practices, histories, and theories, he mines core rhythmic, melodic, and structural elements from a wide range of sources to construct richly varied, improvisation-driven solo and ensemble music.
Iyer’s compositions for jazz quartet on his album Reimagining (2005) feature elaborate melodic constructions and intricate rhythmic techniques influenced by South Indian classical music, West African drumming, contemporary European composers, and twentieth-century African American piano masters. On Historicity (2009) and Accelerando (2012), he imaginatively rearranges works by Stevie Wonder, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Michael Jackson, M.I.A., and others, developing new rhythms, textures, and strategies for the piano trio.
Parallel to these projects, he has expanded his creative practice through frequent collaborations with poets. Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dream Project (2013) illuminates the lived experience of war and the subsequent return to civilian life, as the dreams of minority veterans from the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are rendered as lyrics and set to a restless, poignant electroacoustic score punctuated by moments of improvisation.
With academic training in music cognition, Iyer complements his musicianship with writings for both specialist and general audiences that investigate the ever-shifting relationship between culture, perception, and aesthetics. Through his wide-ranging body of work, Iyer is creating a unique voice in diverse musical contexts while reaffirming the place of music not just as entertainment but as an essential part of human society.
BIOGRAPHY
Vijay Iyer received a B.S. (1992) from Yale College and a Ph.D. (1998) from the University of California at Berkeley. His additional recordings include Tirtha (2011), Solo (2010), and Door (2008, with the collective trio Fieldwork), among others. He has performed his music at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Chicago Symphony Hall, University of California at Los Angeles’s Royce Hall, Köln Philharmonie, Musiekgebouw Amsterdam, and Teatro Manzoni di Milano, as well as dozens of international music festivals and jazz clubs around the world. In January 2014, he will join the Harvard University Department of Music as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts.
在进行这些项目的同时，他还通过与诗人的频繁合作扩大了他的创作实践。Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dream Project (2013)阐明了战争的生活经历和随后的回归平民生活，因为美国在伊拉克和阿富汗战争中的少数退伍军人的梦想被演绎成了歌词，并被设置在一个不安的、凄美的电声乐谱中，由即兴演奏的时刻点缀。
