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MUSIC EVENT: Vijay Iyer Solo Performance

When
08 Oct 2022
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
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1 - YCL General Membership – £26.00
Yale Club of Ireland – £26.00

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VIJAY IYER (YC '92)

Solo Performance

London Piano Festival

Saturday, 8th October 2022
7:30 pm: Drinks/Networking
8 - 9 pm: Performance
9:30 pm: Drinks Reception

Kings Place
90 York Way
London N1 9AG

Please note: Tickets will be distributed on the night.

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YCL Members: £26

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About the Event:

Vijay Iyer (YC '92) will be playing in a rare solo performance as part of the London Piano Festival at Kings Place. YCL and Yale Club of Ireland are co-hosting this special evening on Saturday October 8th. There will be a drinks reception to meet and chat with Vijay later that night hosted by Mina Choi (YC '92) in a private home behind Wigmore Hall.

ABOUT THE PERFORMER:

Vijay Iyer is an American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, and writer 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." He received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Grammy nomination, and was voted  Downbeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year four times in the last decade. In 2014 he received a lifetime appointment as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University, where he is jointly appointed in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies.

Vijay’s releases include 2021’s Uneasy (ECM) with Linda May Han Oh on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums; The Transitory Poems (ECM Records, 2019) with pianist Craig Taborn;  Far From Over (ECM, 2017) with the Vijay Iyer Sextet;  A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM, 2016) with composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith;  Break Stuff (ECM, 2015) with the Vijay Iyer Trio; the score to the film  Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi (ECM, 2014) by filmmaker Prashant Bhargava; and  Holding it Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project (Pi Recordings, 2013) with poet-performer Mike Ladd.

Vijay’s concert works have been commissioned by Brentano Quartet, Lutoslawski Quartet, Ethel, Brooklyn Rider, Imani Winds, American Composers Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Silk Road Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, LAPhil Group for New Music, and soloists Matt Haimowitz, Claire Chase, Mishka Rushdie Momen, Shai Wosner, and Jennifer Koh.

Registration:

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Questions?

Contact: May Wu Skilbeck

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