Mermaid Arts Centre
Saturday May 3rd, 8:00pm
Tickets: €35
Also Featuring: Ronan Guilfoyle’s Bemusement Arcade
Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” VIJAY IYER is an influential and shape-shifting presence in twenty-first- century music.
A three times Grammy Award nominee and four-times ‘Downbeat Magazine Jazz Artist of the Year’ winner, the New York based composer and pianist is revered across multiple musical communities, and has produced a consistently innovative body of work over the last three decades that has earned him a place as one of the leading contemporary music-makers of his generation.
Vijay Iyer, who is a one-time California Physics PhD student, draws his musical inspiration from some of the great composer-pianists – from Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk to Alice Coltrane and Geri Allen – as well as from the rhythmic traditions of South Asia and West Africa, and the African American creative music movement of the 60s and 70s.
His 2024 ECM Records album ‘Compassion,’ made it onto many end of year ‘Best Album’ listings. Iyer will perform in a solo concert at this year’s festival.
Heady, visceral jazz” –
The Irish Times