Composer Anthony Cheung Collaborates with Parker Quartet and Mezzo-Soprano Fleur Barron on New Commission
The Parker Quartet collaborates with leading pianist, composer, and scholar Vijay Iyer. They first worked together as colleagues at Harvard University before taking their collaboration on the road to the Big Ears Festival last season.
Together, VIjay and the Parker offers a program next season featuring Iyer’s complex and multi-layered music for piano quintet in works including Time, Place, Action (2014) and Mozart Effects (2011). Iyer is known for his boundary-crossing work in improvised and notated musical forms in jazz and contemporary classical music.
Concert Program
Vijay Iyer: Mozart Effects
Valentin Silvestrov: Quartet No. 3
Vijay Iyer: Time, Place, Action
Internationally recognized for their “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) performances, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation, dedicated purely to the sound and depth of their music. Inspired performances and exceptional musicianship are hallmarks of the Quartet, having appeared at the world’s most illustrious venues since its founding in 2002.
Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” Vijay Iyer has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in twenty-first-century music. A composer and pianist active and revered across multiple musical communities, Iyer has created a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work over the last twenty-five years, earning him a place as one of the leading music-makers of his generation.
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We invite you to contact us now about finding a date to bring the Parker Quartet & Vijay Iyer to your series in the 2024/25 season.