Biography
Vijay Iyer ([ˌvɪdʒeɪ ˈaɪjər]; born Vijay Raghunathan, October 26, 1971) is a composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, writer, and professor 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". Iyer received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, three Grammy nominations, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. He was voted Jazz Artist of the Year in the Downbeat magazine international critics' polls in 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018. In 2014, he was jointly appointed with tenure to Harvard University's departments of music and African American studies as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
217 releases · 59 albums · active 1995–2025
- Performance · 562
- Other credits · 130
- Production · 52
- Engineering · 13
Studios: Avatar Studios · Oktaven Audio · Systems Two · Sony Music Studios, New York City
Frequent collaborators
- Mike Ladd
- Vijay Iyer Trio
- Moor Mother
- Steve Coleman
- Arooj Aftab
- Kassa Overall
- Various
- Hafez Modirzadeh