#  RECORDINGS 

 



 **DISCOGRAPHY AS A COMPOSER, PERFORMER, BANDLEADER & PRODUCER**

 **UnEasy, Vijay Iyer Trio feat. Linda May Han Oh and Tyshawn Sorey, ECM Records 2021**

 **The Transitory Poems, Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn, ECM Records 2019**

 **Far From Over, Vijay Iyer Sextet, ECM Records 2017**

 **A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke, Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, ECM Records 2016**

 **Break Stuff, Vijay Iyer Trio, ECM Records 2015**

 **Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi (DVD/BluRay and digital release), Vijay Iyer & Prashant Bhargava, ECM Records 2014**

 **Mutations, Vijay Iyer, ECM Records 2014**

 **Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project, Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd, Pi Recordings 2013**

 **Accelerando, Vijay Iyer Trio, ACT Music + Vision 2012**

 **Tirtha, Vijay Iyer feat. Prasanna & Nitin Mitta, ACT Music + Vision 2011**

 **Solo, Vijay Iyer, ACT Music + Vision 2010**

 **Historicity, Vijay Iyer Trio, ACT Music + Vision 2009**

 **Tragicomic, Vijay Iyer, Sunnyside Records 2008**

 **Door, Fieldwork, Pi Recordings 2008**

 **Still Life with Commentator, Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd, Savoy Jazz 2007**

 **Raw Materials, Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa, Savoy Jazz 2006**

 **Simulated Progress, Fieldwork, Pi Recordings 2005**

 **Reimagining, Vijay Iyer, Savoy Jazz 2005**

 **In What Language? Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd, Pi Recordings 2004**

 **Blood Sutra, Vijay Iyer, Artists House Foundation 2003**

 **Your Life Flashes, Fieldwork, Pi Recordings 2002**

 **Panoptic Modes, Vijay Iyer, Red Giant Records 2001**

 **Architextures, Vijay Iyer, Asian Improv Records 1998**

 **Memorophilia, Vijay Iyer, Asian Improv Records 1995**

 **SELECTED RECORDINGS AS A FEATURED COMPOSER**

 **- The Window for cello and piano, performed by Inbal Segev and Vijay Iyer on 20 for 2020, vol II (Avie, 2021)**

 **- For Violin Alone, performed by Jennifer Koh on Alone Together (Cedille, 2021)**

 **- Equal Night, performed by Matt Haimovitz on Primavera I: The Wind (Pentatone, 2021)**

 **- My Boy (Song of Remembrance), performed by Justin Vivian Bond as part of Desert In, a - collaborative tele-opera released as a limited television series by Boston Lyric Opera, 2021**

 **- Bruits for wind quintet and piano, performed by Imani Winds and Cory Smythe on Bruits (Bright Shiny Things, 2021)**

 **- The Diamond for violin and piano, performed by Jennifer Koh and Vijay Iyer on Limitless (Cedille, 2019)**

 **- Hallucination Party for piano, performed by Mishka Rushdie Momen on Variations (Somm, 2019)**

 **- Run for solo cello, performed by Matt Haimovitz on Overtures to Bach (Oxingale, 2015)**

 **- Dig The Say for string quartet, performed by Brooklyn Rider on Brooklyn Rider Almanac (Mercury Classics, 2014)**

 **- Playlist for an Extreme Occasion performed by Silk Road Ensemble on Playlist Without Borders (Sony Classical, 2013)**

 **- Playlist One (Resonance) for solo violin, performed by Cornelius Dufallo on Journaling (Innova Records, 2012)**

 **SELECTED RECORDINGS AS A FEATURED PIANIST**

 **with Rez Abbasi Quintet:**

 **- Suno Suno (Enja, 2011)**

 **- Things to Come (Sunnyside, 2009)**

 **- Unfiltered Universe (Whirlwind, 2017)**

 **with Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber**

 **- All Ya Needs That Negrocity (2011)**

 **- More Than Posthuman: Rise of the Mojosexual Cotillion (2006)**

 **- If You Can't Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth (2005)**

 **- Not April in Paris: Live from Banlieus Bleues (2004)**

 **- Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets (2003)**

 **- The Rites: Conductions Inspired by Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (2003) \[with Butch Morris\]**

 **- That Depends On What You Know (2001)**

 **- Blood on the Leaf: Opus No. 1 (2000)**

 **with Steve Coleman**

 **- The Ascension to Light (BMG France, 1999)**

 **- The Sonic Language of Myth (BMG France, 1998)**

 **- Genesis (BMG France, 1997)**

 **- Myths, Modes and Means: Live at Hot Brass, Paris (BMG France, 1995)**

 **with Mike Ladd**

 **- Mike Ladd Presents Father Divine (ROIR, 2005)**

 **- Negrophilia: The Album (Thirsty Ear, 2005)**

 **- The Nostalgialator (!K7, 2004)**

 **with Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet**

 **- Code Book (Pi Recordings, 2006)**

 **- Mother Tongue (Pi Recordings, 2004)**

 **- Black Water (Red Giant Records, 2002)**

 **with Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory**

 **- Far Side (ECM Records, 2007)**

 **- Song for My Sister (Pi Recordings, 2002)**

 **with Wadada Leo Smith**

 **- A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (Tum Records, 2021) (Wadada Leo Smith / Vijay Iyer / Jack DeJohnette)**

 **- Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform, 2009) (Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet)**

 **- Tabligh (Cuneiform, 2008) (Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet)**

 **- Eclipse (concert film, 2005) (Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet)**

 **with others**

 **- Ivo Perelman, Brass and Ivory Tales: Tale Nine (Fundacja Słuchaj, 2021)**

 **- Ralph Peterson’s Aggregate Prime, Dream Deferred (Aggregate Prime, 2016)**

 **- Dave Douglas, Orange Afternoons (Greenleaf, 2011)**

 **- Arturo O'Farrill, The Offense of the Drum (Motéma, 2014)**

 **- Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille), Wiring (Intakt, 2014)**

 **- Pete Robbins, Pyramid (Hate Laugh, 2014)**

 **- Das Racist, Sit Down, Man (Greedhead / Mad Decent, 2010)**

 **- Steve Lehman, Demian as Posthuman (Pi, 2005)**

 **- Amiri & Amina Baraka, The Shani Project (Brown Sound, 2004)**

 **SELECTED COMPOSITIONS**

 **2021 Disunities (16’) for clarinet and string quartet. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Lydian Quartet, to premiere March 19, 2022 with David Krakauer, clarinet, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass..**

 **2021 Pilgrimage (25’) suite in tribute to Dionne Brand, for trumpet, piano, and electronics. Composed by Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith. Commissioned for Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering. Premiered in a virtual performance on November 5, 2021.**

 **2021 For My Father (10’) for piano. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Da Camera of Houston, to premiere May 10, 2022, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Sarah Rothenberg, piano.**

 **2021 Tempest (70’) suite for piano, bass, drums, trumpet, and voices. Commissioned by Celebrate Brooklyn, premiered by Vijay Iyer & ensemble at Prospect Park Bandshell, August 14, 2021.**

 **2021 Requiem X (58’) suite in honor of Malcolm X, for trumpet, piano, and electronics. Composed by Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith. Commissioned by ArtPower at UC San Diego. Premiered in a virtual performance on May 18, 2021 (Malcolm X’s birthday).**

 **2021 Equal Night (10’) for cello solo. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Matt Haimovitz, premiered 2021 and released on his recording Primavera I: The Wind (PentaTone Records, 2021).**

 **2021 The Window (10’) for cello and piano. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Inbal Segev, released on her recording 20 for 2020: vol II (Avie Records, 2021).**

 **2021 “My Boy (Song of Remembrance)” (6’30”) for voices and ensemble. Commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera. Premiered in episode 3 of the tele-opera series Desert In, June 2021; Justin Vivian Bond & Davone Tynes, soloists.**

 **2020 Crown Thy Good (6’) for piano solo. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned for Min Kwon by the Center for Musical Excellence. Premiered 2021 in NYC and online.**

 **2020 Plinth (for Kwame Ture) (8’) for piano solo. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned for Shai Wosner by The Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund. To be premiered in 2022 by Shai Wosner.**

 **2020 For Violin Alone (2’). Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Arco Collaborative by Jennifer Koh. Premiered online by Jennifer Koh, June 2020, and released on her Grammy-nominated recording Alone Together (Cedille Records, 2021).**

 **2019 Song for Flint (11’) for viola solo. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Miller Theatre, NYC. Premiered October 24, Miller Theatre, with Kyle Armbrust, viola.**

 **2019 Hallucination Party (8’) for piano solo. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Mishka Rushdie Momen. Premiered October 16, New York Public Library; Momen, piano. Released on her disc Variations (Somm Recordings, 2019).**

 **2019 Crisis Modes (18’) for strings and percussion. Published by Schott Music. Co- commissioned by LA Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall, and Köln Philharmonie. Premiered January 15, 2019 at Disney Hall, Los Angeles by LAPhil New Music Group; Paolo Bortolameolli, conductor. Revised version premiered at Miller Theatre, October 24, 2019.**

 **2019 The Transitory Poems collection of duo-piano music with Craig Taborn, including eight jointly created original works (commercial CD/digital release)**

 **2018 Jiva (8’) for shamisen solo. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Japan Society. Premiered October 5, 2018 by Hidejiro Honjo at Japan Society, NYC.**

 **2018 How the Spotlight Sounds (50’) for Steinway Spirio player piano and fixed media, with texts by Garnette Cadogan. Published by Schott Music. Premiered at The Kitchen, NYC, June 25-29, 2018.**

 **2018 Torque (17’) for mallet quartet. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by So Percussion. Premiered June 22, 2018 at Caramoor.**

 **2018 The Diamond (20’) for violin and piano. Published by Schott Music. Commissioned by Arco Collaborative. Premiered March 30, 2018 at National Sawdust, NYC by Jennifer Koh & Vijay Iyer.**

 **2017 The Law of Returns (18’) for piano quartet. Premiered by Vijay Iyer with members of the Lutoslawski Quartet, Center for Music, Wroclaw, Poland, November 2017.**

 **2017 Asunder (15’) for chamber orchestra. Premiered by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, NYC, October 2017.**

 **2017 Trouble (29’) for violin and chamber orchestra. Premiered by Jennifer Koh and International Contemporary Ensemble / The Knights. Commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival, Cal Performances, & Boston Symphony Orchestra, June-July 2017.**

 **2017 City of Sand (Speculative Dunhuang) for pipa, tabla, clarinet, percussion, + string orchestra. Commissioned & premiered by Silk Road Ensemble and A Far Cry.**

 **2016 Cute, Zany, Interesting (4’) for solo violin. Premiered by Jennifer Koh, May 2016.**

 **2016 Emergence (23’) for trio and orchestra. Premiered by Leopoldinum Chamber Symphony & Vijay Iyer Trio, Wroclaw, Poland, April 2016.**

 **2016 A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (40’) jointly composed with Wadada Leo Smith. Commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC and premiered at the Met Breuer, March 2016.**

 **2015 Run (8’) for solo cello. Commissioned and premiered by Matt Haimovitz, Miller Theater, October 2015.**

 **2015 Meta-Études (10’) for solo piano. Commissioned by San Francisco Performances, premiered at SFJazz Center, May 2015.**

 **2015 Bridgetower Fantasy (20’) for violin and piano. Commissioned by Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner, premiered at UC Santa Barbara, April 2015.**

 **2014 Combat Breathing (15’) for solo piano & dancers. Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, premiered at BAM Next Wave Festival, December 2014.**

 **2014 Bruits (20’) for wind quintet and piano, premiered at La Musica International Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota, April 2014. Greenfield Prize commission. Recorded on their Grammy-nominated album Bruits (Bright Shiny Things, 2021).**

 **2014 Time, Place, Action (35’) for string quartet and piano, premiered at Da Camera of Houston, February 2014.**

 **2013 Suite for Trayvon (and thousands more) (20’) for quartet. Premiered at Birdland (NYC) by Trio 3 + Vijay Iyer, August 2013.**

 **2013 Radhe, Radhe: Rites of Holi (35') for chamber ensemble, with film by Prashant Bhargava. Commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts, premiered at UNC Chapel Hill, March 26, 2013.**

 **2012 Rimpa Ephemera (10') for chamber ensemble. Commissioned by Bang on a Can All-Stars. To premiere December 8, 2012 at Japan Society, NYC.**

 **2012 Dig the Say (8') for string quartet, commissioned by Brooklyn Rider. To premiere in Winter Park, FL in November 2012.**

 **2012 Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project (80'), song cycle/documentary concert, with poet Mike Ladd. Commissioned by Harlem Stage.**

 **2012 Playlist for an Extreme Occasion (16') commissioned by Silk Road Ensemble. Premiered September 30-October 1, 2012 at UNC Chapel Hill.**

 **2011 UnEasy (15') collaboration with choreographer Karole Armitage, commissioned by Central Park Summerstage, premiered July 15-16, 2011**

 **2011 Mozart Effects (6') string quartet, commissioned by Brentano String Quartet**

 **2010 Release (12') installation work, jointly with Bill Morrison, commissioned by Eastern State Penitentiary historical site**

 **2009 Bright Lights collection for jazz quintet (38') commissioned by ESPN**

 **2008 Redemption Chant 2.0 (4') electronic work with text by Mike Ladd. Featured on the compilation Mendi + Keith Obadike Present: Crosstalk (Bridge Records)**

 **2008 Far from Over (50') commissioned work for Chicago Jazz Festival**

 **2007 Teza (70') original score for a feature film by Haile Gerima, jointly with J. Mesfin**

 **2007 Betrothed (50') original score to 75-minute theatre work created by Rachel Dickstein & premiered by Ripe Time Theater Company at Ohio Theater, NYC**

 **2007 Interventions (15') for chamber orchestra, improvising pianist & electronics.**

 **Commissioned by American Composers Orchestra**

 **2005 Mutations I-X (35') for string quartet, piano & electronics. Premiered by Ethel string quartet + Vijay Iyer at Merkin Hall, NYC, Jan 28, 2005**

 **2002 Sangha: Collaborative Fables (70') suite of eleven pieces for piano & saxophone, jointly with R. Mahanthappa. Premiered by Raw Materials (Iyer/Mahanthappa duo) at The Jazz Gallery, NYC, May 11, 2002**

 **2000 Three Episodes for Wind Quintet (12'). Premiered by Imani Winds, NYC.**

 **2000 Conjectures (70') suite for piano, saxophone, and Indian percussion, jointly w/ R. Mahanthappa & T. Sankaran. Premiered by Manodharma Trio (Iyer/Mahanthappa/Sankaran) at Chicago Cultural Center, January 2000**