In November Iyer’s quartet with drummer Tyshawn Sorey, bassist Yunior Terry, and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill played a sold-out twelve-set run at the Village Vanguard in New York.

Iyer also performed a special concert in New York with celebrated composer-saxophonist Henry Threadgill and composer-drummer Dafnis Prieto.

2026 began with a solo tour to London, Porto and Lisbon before returning to New York to perform at Lincoln Center alongside an all-star cast of musicians, poets and orators within Carrie Mae Weems’s Contested Sites of Memory.

Thereupon is the long-anticipated return of the all-star collaborative trio Fieldwork, which has been described by NPR as a “power trio for the new century.” This long-standing collective comprises three internationally revered innovators of contemporary music: alto saxophonist-composer Steve Lehman, pianist-composer Vijay Iyer, and drummer-composer Tyshawn Sorey. In the seventeen years since their last recording, Door (Pi), all three musicians have climbed to the pinnacle of the creative music scene and received universal acclaim for their work, each one significantly reshaping the language of creative music in his own way. Remarkably, as Fieldwork, the whole is even greater than the sum of its parts, as the group continues to redefine the possibilities for ensemble music-making.