Tyshawn Sorey (born July 8, 1980) is an American

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, and

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. Sorey has received accolades for performances, recordings, and compositions ranging from improvised solo percussion to opera, with work in best-of lists for both classical and jazz music. ''

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'' included Sorey in their annual "Notable Performances and Recordings" lists for 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020; the

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-era entry was for premieres "cast in unconventional concerto form". His prolific output during a time of heavy restrictions on live performance led a ''New York Times'' critic to call him 2020's "composer of the year". Sorey received the 2024

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for his ''Adagio (for

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).'' He was named a

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in 2017, a United States Artists Fellow in 2018, and in 2019 his song cycle for

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, ''Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine'', was performed on the steps of the

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. His life and work have been the subject of features in publications including ''

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'', ''

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'',

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, and ''

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''. Sorey has recorded or performed with

Steve Coleman Steve Coleman (born September 20, 1956) is an American saxophonist, composer, bandleader and music theorist. In 2014, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Early life Steve Coleman was born and grew up in South Side, Chicago. He started playing ...

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, Steve Lehman,

Joey Baron Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American drummer best-known for working in avant-garde jazz with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Music career Baron, who is of Jewish heritage, was born on June 26, 1955, in Ric ...

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, Pete Robbins, Cory Smythe,

Kris Davis Kris Davis (born 1980) is a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Early life Davis was born in Vancouver in 1980 and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She studied classical piano from the age of six and discovered jazz while a high school student. She ...

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, Dave Douglas,

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, and

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. In 2020, Sorey joined the faculty at the

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as Presidential Assistant Professor of Music.

Early life and career

Sorey grew up in

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, and attended

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. As a teenager, he participated in the

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Jazz for Teens program, through which he was awarded a Star-Ledger Scholarship. In 2004, Sorey completed a B.Music in jazz studies and performance at

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, where he began as a classical trombone major before transferring to jazz drumming. After a number of years recording and performing as a sideperson for artists including

and Steve Lehman, Sorey's first album as leader was released on Firehouse 12 Records in 2007. The 2-CD ''That/Not'' features various configurations of Sorey, trombonist Ben Gerstein, pianist Cory Smythe, and bassist Thomas Morgan performing an extensive array of works, from "Seven Pieces for Trombone Quartet" to the forty-three minute "Permutations for Solo Piano." Sorey primarily plays drums, but also makes appearances on piano, including on the album's opening track. The material recorded for the album exceeded even the constraints of a two-disc set: a subsequent digital release of ''That/Not'' includes five additional pieces from the same sessions, including two "4 Hands" piano tracks. Sorey released his second album, ''Koan'', in June 2009. Featuring Todd Neufeld (on electric and acoustic guitar) and Thomas Morgan (on bass and acoustic guitar), the 482 Music release was reviewed favorably by ''

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'' and the ''

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'', included in the 2009 ''

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'' Jazz Critics’ Poll, and praised in

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's "Take Five's Top 10 Jazz Records Of 2009". In the fall of 2009, Sorey enrolled in a master’s program at

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to study composition with

. He completed his M.A. in the spring of 2011 before beginning a doctoral program at

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in the fall. His enrollment at Columbia coincided with the release of his highly-lauded ''Oblique – I''. During the six years of doctoral study that followed, Sorey worked closely with

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and

Fred Lerdahl Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl (born March 10, 1943) is an American music theorist and composer. Best known for his work on musical grammar, Music cognition, cognition, Rhythm, rhythmic theory, and pitch space, he and the linguist Ray Jackendoff d ...

; off-campus, he recorded three albums with pianist Cory Smythe and bassist Chris Tordini. The first of these, ''Alloy'', was released on Pi Recordings in 2014. For ''The Inner Spectrum of Variables'', the trio was joined by three string performers: violinist Fung Chern Hwei, violist Kyle Armbrust, and cellist Rubin Kodheli. The ''

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'' called ''The Inner Spectrum of Variables'' "one of the year's most arresting and ambitious recordings", and ''

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'' included the album in their "Ten Best Albums of 2016"; Nextbop's Rob Shepherd named it the best jazz album of the decade. The following year, Sorey returned to the trio format for ''Verisimilitude'', which was listed third in both the 2017

Jazz Critics Poll and ''The New York Times'' Best Jazz Albums of 2017. In 2017, Sorey also completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in composition at Columbia. His dissertation comprises scores for his song cycle ''Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine'' and an essay on the aesthetic practices and critical reception of the composition, its subject

, and the composer himself. Sorey cited Julia Bullock and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble as integral to his endeavor to "challenge the improvisation/composition binary and celebrate collaborative modeling"; in 2019, these artists joined Sorey in performing the piece on the steps of the

. After receiving his DMA, Sorey began his appointment as Assistant Professor of Music at

, where he established the university's Ensemble for New Music and taught courses on composition and improvised music. In the fall of 2017, he was awarded a

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for his work in music performance and composition. In 2018, Sorey premiered ''Cycles of My Being'', commissioned by

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, and

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, starring Lawrence Brownlee with poetry by

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. This song cycle centers on what it means to be a Black man living in America today and in 2020 was made into a film with Opera Philadelphia and released on their Digital Channel. In 2018 he also released ''Pillars'' on Firehouse 12. The following year he was named Composer in Residence for the

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and

, and his duo album with

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, ''The Adornment of Time'', was released on Pi Recordings. In March 2020, just before the pandemic hit the Northeastern United States in full force, Sorey self-released his sextet's ''Unfiltered''. That fall, he joined the faculty at the

as Presidential Assistant Professor of Music. Beginning in 2019, Sorey embarked on several musical projects with

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including ''For George Lewis'', a through-composed composition scored for sinfonietta commissioned by the ensemble, as well as several versions of autoschediasms, spontaneous compositions led by Sorey drawing on the improvisational abilities of the instrumentalists. ''For George Lewis'' was premiered in 2019 at Washington University in St Louis and released on an album with two versions of autoschediasms in 2021. While one autoschediasm came from a live performance in St Louis in 2019, the other was recorded completely remotely with musicians performing from five states during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Sorey recorded a holiday-themed autoschediasm based on Coventry Carol and

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with Alarm Will Sound. In 2022, Sorey’s composition ''Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)'', commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the

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premieres there, followed by performances at the

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in New York. The piece has similar instrumentation to

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’s 1971 composition ''Rothko Chapel''.

Musical style

Sorey's work is broadly

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, drawing on a wide variety of influences, practices, and traditions. He opposes the categorization of music by distinct

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s, and in interviews and his doctoral thesis has questioned notions of

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and

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as being mutually exclusive. Described as a musical shapeshifter, Sorey says he is invested less in "combining" genres than in movement across varying musical terrains: "For me, mobility represents not adhering to any particular musical model or institution. Unlike hybridity, mobility isn’t about fusion so much as the freedom to move between different models from moment to moment."

Awards and honors

*2008: Van Lier Fellowship *2008: Jerome Foundation Residency Grant *2012: Other Minds Composer Residency *2013: JazzDanmark /

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Artist Residency *2014: Shifting Foundation Grant *2015: Doris Duke Impact Award *2015: Jerome Foundation Residency Grant *2017:

*2018:

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Fellowship *2019:

Composer in Residence *2019:

Composer in Residence *2024: Pulitzer Prize for Music

Discography

As leader/composer

As co-leader/composer

As sideman and/or composer

;With

*''For George Lewis / Autoschediasms'' (2021,

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) ;With Samuel Blaser *''Pieces of Old Sky'' (2009) ;With

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*''Lifted Land'' (2013) ;With

*''Trillium E'' (2011) ;With

*''Harvesting Semblances and Affinities'' (2010) *''The Mancy of Sound'' (2011) ;With Armen Donelian *''Leapfrog'' (2011) ;With Alexandra Grimal *''Andromeda'' (2012) ;With

Henry Grimes Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist and violinist. After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music sc ...

, Roberto Pettinato and

Dave Burrell Herman Davis "Dave" Burrell (born September 10, 1940) is an American jazz pianist. He has played with many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray. Biography Born in Middletown, Ohio, United Sta ...

*''Purity'' (2012) ;With

*'' Blood Sutra'' (Artists House, 2003) *'' Far From Over'' (ECM, 2017) *'' Uneasy'' (ECM, 2021) *''

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'' (ECM, 2024) ;With Max Johnson *''Quartet'' (2012) ;With Lauer Large *''Konstanz Suite'' (2009) ;With

Ingrid Laubrock Ingrid Laubrock (born 24 September 1970) is a German jazz saxophonist, who primarily plays tenor saxophone but also performs and records on soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones. She studied with Jean Toussaint, Dave Liebman and at the Guildha ...

*'' Serpentines'' (2016) ;With Steve Lehman *''Demian as Posthuman'' (2005) *''On Meaning'' (2007) *''Travail, Transformation and Flow'' (2009) *''Mise en Abîme'' (2014) ;With Lage Lund *''Terrible Animals'' (2019) ;With

Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' described him as "one of the key figure ...

*'' Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin'' (Wide Hive, 2013) *'' Bells for the South Side'' (ECM, 2017) ;With Hafez Modirzadeh *''Facets'' (2021) ;With Pascal Niggenkemper *''Pasàpas'' (2008) *''Urban Creatures'' (2010) ;With Timuçin Şahin *''Bafa'' (2009) *''Inherence'' (2013) ;With

Samo Šalamon Samo Šalamon (born 9 October 1978 in Maribor, Slovenia) is a Slovenian jazz composer, guitarist, and interviewer. He has performed on over 35 albums and is credited with over 300 compositions. Biography Šalamon started playing guitar at the ...

*''Kei's Secret'' (2006) ;With Som Sum Sam *''Beauty Under Construction'' (2005) ;With Angelica Sanchez Trio *''Float the Edge'' (Clean Feed, 2017) ;With Sirone and

Billy Bang Billy Bang (September 20, 1947 – April 11, 2011), born William Vincent Walker, was an American free jazz violinist and composer. Biography Bang's family moved to New York City's Bronx neighborhood while he was still an infant, and as a ...

*''

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'' (Silkheart, 2005) With

Craig Taborn Craig Marvin Taborn (; born February 20, 1970) is an American pianist, organist, keyboardist and composer. He works solo and in bands, mostly playing various forms of jazz. He started playing piano and Moog synthesizer as an adolescent and was i ...

*'' Flaga: Book of Angels Volume 27'' (Tzadik, 2016) composed by

;With

*''In the Hall of Mirrors'' (Tzadik, 2014) *''Valentine's Day'' (Tzadik, 2014) *''Hen to Pan'' (Tzadik, 2015)

References

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