Vijay Iyer

New York based US jazz pianist, violinist and composer, born in Albany, NY, on 26th october, 1971. He has no formal piano/composing education, but studied violin privately; he received basic composing and improvisational lectures at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY. He graduated with B.S. in Mathematics & Physics from Yale University, and holds a M.A. in Physics and Ph.D.