GRAMMY® Award Nominated, Internationally Award-Winning & Renowned Pianist and Composer VIJAY IYER is a 4x-Downbeat Critic's Poll "Jazz Artist of the Year" Award-Winner (2012, 2015, 2016, & 2018) as well as "Artist of the Year" in Jazz Times' Critics' Poll (2017). In 2012, Iyer was awarded BOTH the Downbeat Critic's Poll and Jazz Times Critic's Poll "Album of the Year", "Group of the Year" & "Pianist of the Year". Iyer has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in modern music. A musical innovator for 25+ years, Iyer continues to create a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work, earning him a place as one of the leading music-makers of his generation. "Over the past decade, Iyer has established himself as one of the freshest, most compelling jazz leaders in the field," states NPR. "It evokes the highest ideals of creative music..." says JAZZ TIMES (2021 Album Review of 'Uneasy'). "Spine-tingling jazz..." states THE GUARDIAN.