Vijay Iyer
Thursday, May 14, 2015, 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm
Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Vijay Iyer discusses his work, in Music Professor Hafez Modirzadeh's Music of the World's Peoples class. Free.
Location:
Creative Arts Building, Room 152
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Sponsor:
School of Music and Dance
Contact:
SF State Box Office
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Phone:
415-338-2467
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Vijay Iyer is a jazz 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. He is a professor at Harvard University.