Wed 10/19 @ 7:30PM
Jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer is a noted polymath who was both a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and Downbeat magazine’s 2014 Pianist of the Year. His undergraduate degree was in physics and math from Yale, but by the time he got his PhD at Berkeley music was drawing him back and he combined the two fields with his degree in the cognitive science of music. He’s now a professor of the arts at Harvard and in the last 20 years, has released nearly two dozen albums.
In 2014, he released Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi, which featured the music he composed for the film of that name by the late Chicago filmmaker Prashant Bhargava, based on Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring filtered through a tribute to the Hindu goddess Radhe.
That’s the music Iyer and his International Contemporary Ensemble will play when they come to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium. Tickets are $48-$69.