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DESCRIPTION:
“Trailblazing…one of his generation’s brightest jazz luminaries”—Time Out New York

Award-winning musician and Harvard professor Vijay Iyer, who has been voted DownBeat magazine's Artist of the Year four times since 2012 and Artist of the Year in Jazz Times’ Critics’ and Readers’ Polls for 2017, will kick off his residency at USC with an intimate solo performance at Newman Recital Hall.
 

The residency will also include a conversation with Iyer on Thursday, February 27.

Vijay Iyer, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University, is a musician and scholar who has been described by the New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker, and multicultural gateway.” The composer-pianist has earned a place as one of the leading music-makers of his generation. Iyer’s honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. His newest album, Compassion, features his acclaimed trio with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh. His lush, expansive collaboration with Arooj Aftab and Shahzad Ismaily, Love in Exile, received two GRAMMY nominations and was named among the best albums of the year in Pitchfork and the New York Times. Iyer’s scholarship dwells at the intersections of music studies, Black studies, and the sciences.

Related events:

A Masterclass with Vijay Iyer 
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at 5 p.m.
Ramo Recital Hall 
For more info, click HERE.

A Conversation with Vijay Iyer
Thursday, February 27, 2025, at 6 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
For more info, click HERE.

Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Erin Graff Zivin (Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Comparative Literature) and Jonathan Leal (English). Co-sponsored by the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab and the USC Thornton School of Music.

Photo: Ebru Yildiz