THE 222 is proud to present the World Premiere of the seventy-five-minute multimedia composition Misterioso, created and performed by acclaimed composer-pianist Vijay Iyer and celebrated composer-cornetist-flugelhornist Graham Haynes.  Funded in part by the National Endowment of the Arts, Misterioso is a dynamic contemporary conception informed by the two artists’ lifelong indebtedness to the artistry of Thelonious Monk.

Saturday Season Opener Performace

With Champagne Reception & Hors d’oeuvres at 6PM, Concert at 7PM + Post Q&A

Sunday Performace

Concert Only

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. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, three Grammy nominations, the Alpert Award in the Arts, the Greenfield Prize, and two German “Echo” awards, and was voted DownBeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year four times.

Regarded as an innovator on cornet and flugelhorn, an extraordinary composer, and an emerging force in contemporary electronic music and world music, Graham Haynes has redefined and deconstructed that genre we call jazz. Haynes’s music combines technology to create imaginative, subtle sonic environments within a wide range of influences including African, Arabic, and South Asian musical systems.