Master Class with Vijay Iyer

This event will run from 2-4 p.m. in the Brechemin Auditorium, on the first floor of the UW Music Building. Open to the public. Registration required, space is limited. 

Join us for a master class with the prolific musician Vijay Iyer, followed by a Q&A moderated by dynamic improvisational trumpeter Steph Richards. Hosted by Meany Center for the Performing Arts and the UW School of Music.

Program

for violin alone (3') : Michaela Klesse, violin

The Diamond, Movt. I. A Dream (6') : David Teves-Tan, violin, Jeffrey Tso, piano 

Crown Thy Good (5') : Freya Frahm, piano

Vijay Iyer has carved out a unique path as an influential, shape-shifting presence in twenty-first-century music. His honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, three Grammy nominations, and the Alpert Award in the Arts.

Steph Richards is a dynamic improvisor known for her innovative approach to the trumpet and interdisciplinary expression as a composer. A professor at UW, she has collaborated with visionaries Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams and John Zorn as well as art pop luminaries Yoko Ono, St. Vincent, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson.