SELECTED PRESS FOR VIJAY’S CLASSICAL COMPOSITIONS

The Wire magazine (subscription-based)

“Overall, these three performances of Iyer’s composed music palpably enact the formation of community, not as a static, enclosed and introverted entity but as a process of interaction and development that promotes constructive collaboration. Asunder, Trouble and Crisis Modes are titles that encapsulate day to day anxieties that many individuals share. Yet this music is both uplifting and instructive; it enlightens through its irresistible buoyancy. Even when these gracefully realized compositions are at their most reflective or plaintive, the dancing figure of a resounding affirmation is taking shape.”

–       Julian Cowley, The Wire Magazine, Aug, 2024 – READ

Interview on 15 Questions – READ

Where does the impulse to create something come from for you? What role do often-quoted sources of inspiration like dreams, other forms of art, personal relationships, politics etc play?

It usually comes from my gut. Whatever I make needs to have its own reason for being, and the way that comes into being is often mysterious to me. I think I’m known as a “political” artist, but I think all artists are lightning rods, constantly receiving some kind of energetic information about the state of the world around us. It’s hard for us to ignore it, so we just find a way to work with it.

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Interview in YaleNews

As a Yale College undergraduate, Vijay Iyer ’92 majored in math and physics. But unbeknownst to most of his classmates, he was also a student of music. A classically trained violinist, Iyer had by that time moved on to mastering the piano and was teaching himself how to play jazz.

“There was a talent show at the end of our freshman year and I played ‘Round Midnight’ by Thelonious Monk,” he recalled recently. “It just blew them away. They had no idea that I had this whole other side of myself.”

Now the renowned composer, jazz pianist, MacArthur recipient, and three-time Grammy nominee is preparing a chamber music composition that will be performed for the first time this summer at Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, hosted on the 70-acre Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate in the Litchfield Hills, in northwestern Connecticut.

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Classical Crossover
crossovermusicmagazine.com/bmop-sound-announces-trouble-1099-the-debut-recording-of-vijay-iyers-orchestral-works/

Broadway World
broadwayworld.com/bwwclassical/article/BMOPsound-To-Release-Debut-Recording-Of-Vijay-Iyers-Orchestral-Works

For The Record Steve Smith Newsletter
nightafternight.substack.com/p/for-the-record-may-31-2024

Musical America
musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory

All About Jazz
allaboutjazz.com/news/debut-recording-of-vijay-iyers-orchestral-works-to-be-released-june-11th

JazzIz Magazine Inside Track album
jazziz.com/new-releases/vijay-iyer-trouble/

All About Jazz “Coming Soon”
allaboutjazz.com/coming-soon-albums

Can This Even Be Called Music Blog
canthisevenbecalledmusic.com/weekly-release-dump-306/4/

Sequenza21
sequenza21.com/2024/05/bmop-records-galbraith-cd-review/

Classical Scene
classical-scene.com/2024/05/28/bmop-and-brandeis-collaborate/

Kathodik
kathodik.org/2024/09/02/vijay-iyer-trouble/