维杰-艾尔 爵士钢琴家和作曲家

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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.




维杰-艾尔（Vijay Iyer
爵士钢琴家和作曲家 | 2013级
在为他的乐团作曲、跨学科合作和学术工作中塑造了美国音乐实践的新概念。


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标题
爵士钢琴家和作曲家
地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为41岁
重点领域
音乐表演和作曲
网站
vijay-iyer.com
社交网络
推特
脸书
发表于2013年9月25日
关于维杰的工作
维杰-艾尔是一位钢琴家、作曲家、乐队指挥、电子音乐家和作家，他的作品不拘一格，包括为他自己和其他乐团创作的作品、跨流派和学科的合作以及关于聆听行为的学术研究，从而形成了对爵士乐和美国创意音乐的新概念。 作为一个热衷于研究音乐社区、实践、历史和理论的人，他从广泛的来源中挖掘出核心的节奏、旋律和结构元素，以构建丰富多样、即兴驱动的独奏和合奏音乐。

Iyer在他的专辑《Reimagining》（2005年）中为爵士乐四重奏创作的作品，具有精心设计的旋律结构和复杂的节奏技巧，受到南印度古典音乐、西非鼓乐、当代欧洲作曲家和二十世纪美国黑人钢琴大师的影响。在Historicity（2009）和Accelerando（2012）中，他富有想象力地重新安排了Stevie Wonder、Leonard Bernstein、Duke Ellington、Michael Jackson、M.I.A.等人的作品，为钢琴三重奏开发新的节奏、纹理和策略。

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。

由于接受过音乐认知方面的学术培训，艾尔用为专家和普通观众撰写的文章来补充他的音乐能力，这些文章研究文化、感知和美学之间不断变化的关系。通过他广泛的作品，艾耶在不同的音乐背景下创造了一个独特的声音，同时重申了音乐不仅是娱乐，而且是人类社会的一个重要组成部分的地位。

个人简历
维杰-艾尔在耶鲁大学获得学士学位（1992年），在加州大学伯克利分校获得博士学位（1998年）。他的其他唱片包括《Tirtha》（2011年）、《Solo》（2010年）和《Door》（2008年，与集体三重奏Fieldwork）等。他曾在卡内基音乐厅、林肯中心、沃克艺术中心、布鲁克林音乐学院、芝加哥交响乐厅、加州大学洛杉矶分校罗伊斯音乐厅、科隆爱乐乐团、阿姆斯特丹音乐厅和米兰曼佐尼剧院等场所，以及世界各地的几十个国际音乐节和爵士俱乐部表演过他的音乐。2014年1月，他将加入哈佛大学音乐系，担任富兰克林-D-和佛罗伦萨-罗森布拉特艺术教授。