Vijay Iyer

I kept restarting this piece over the course of a couple of years, while it was subject to a series of pandemic-era postponements. None of my ideas felt right for these times of precarity, suffering,...

I kept restarting this piece over the course of a couple of years, while it was subject to a series of pandemic-era postponements. None of my ideas felt right for these times of precarity, suffering,...

At the piano, I listen for how the contortions of the hand can suggest the surges of a body in motion. In my trio music, I'm often evolving rhythmic shapes, shaping gestural patterns with an embodied...

The Kreutzer Sonata was originally dedicated not to Rudolphe Kreutzer (who never performed it) but to George Bridgetower, a famed 18th-century Afro-European concert violinist. In an early draft, Beeth...

Kompositionsjahr 2019.

My piece is titled 'Zany, Cute, Interesting.' It's inspired by the literary theorist Sianne Ngai, whose book Our Aesthetic Categories explores what she calls 'weak aesthetics' - our ambivalent or anti...

In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations....

Kompositionsjahr 2019.