NEW CLASSICAL & CHAMBER WORKS
IIyer is an active composer for classical ensembles and soloists. His works have been commissioned and premiered by Brentano String Quartet, Imani Winds, Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Silk Road Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, LAPhil Group for New Music, American Composers Orchestra, So Percussion, Boston Lyric Opera, and virtuosi Jennifer Koh, Matt Haimowitz, Claire Chase, Shai Wosner, Inbal Segev, and Mishka Rushdie Momen, among others. He recently served as composer-in-residence at London’s Wigmore Hall, music director of the Ojai Music Festival, and artist-in-residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has been featured in Miller Theatre’s Composer Portraits and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Composers in Focus series.
Comprehensive Information
on Vijay’s Classical Work:
A playlist recordings of Vijay’s compositions by other artists
Orchestral / Large Ensemble
My Boy (Song of Remembrance) (2021)
for Boston Lyric Opera
Crisis Modes (2019)
for percussion and strings
Asunder (2018)
for chamber orchestra
Trouble (2017)
for violin and chamber orchestra
City of Sand (Speculative Dunhuang) (2017)
for clarinet, tabla, pipa, percussion and string orchestra
Emergence (2016)
for jazz trio and orchestra
RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi (2013)
multimedia work for chamber ensemble and electronics
Rimpa Transcriptions (2012)
for clarinet, percussion, electric guitar, piano, cello and double bass
Playlist for an Extreme Occasion (2011)
for Galician gaita or piano, sheng, tabla, 2 percussionists, violin and cello
Interventions (2007)
for chamber orchestra with improvising pianist and electronics
Electronic / Fixed Media
Flute Goals (Five Empty Chambers) (2016)
composition for pre-recorded flute sounds
Chamber / Solo
Spasm (2021)
The Window (2021) with Inbal Segev
For Violin Alone (2020) for Jennifer Koh
Plinth (for Kwame Ture) (2020)
Song for Flint (2019)
for solo viola
Torque (2018)
for 2 vibraphones and 2 marimbas
The Law of Returns (2016)
for piano quartet
Zany, Cute, Interesting (2016)
for solo violin
Bridgetower Fantasy (2015)
for violin and piano
Run (2015)
for solo cello
Bruits (2014)
for wind quintet and piano
Time, Place, Action (2014)
for string quartet and piano
Dig the Say (2012)
for string quartet
Mozart Effects (2011)
for string quartet
Mutations I – X (2005)
for string quartet, piano and electronics