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Tyshawn Sorey
Tyshawn Sorey is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and professor of contemporary music. 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. The New Yorker included Sorey on its annual "Notable Performances and Recordings" lists in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020; the pandemic-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 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Adagio. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017, a United States Artists Fellow in 2018, and in 2019 his song cycle for Josephine Baker, Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine, was performed on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His life and work have been the subject of features in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, NPR Music, and The Brooklyn Rail. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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Agbas
John Zorn
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Awakening (feat. Thomas Morgan & Todd Neufeld)
Tyshawn Sorey
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Because of Guns
Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Stephen Crump, and Tyshawn Sorey
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Part 1
Dave Liebman
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Only One Sky (feat. Thomas Morgan & Todd Neufeld)
Tyshawn Sorey

Albums

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Archaisms II (feat. Sae Hashimoto, Russell Greenberg & Levy Lorenzo)

2024
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Flaga: Book of Angels, Vol. 27

2016
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Archaisms I

2023
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Like Salamanders We Survive

2013
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New Now

2022
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Paradoxical Frog

2010
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On Common Ground

2020
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Koan (feat. Thomas Morgan & Todd Neufeld)

2009

Singles & EPs

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Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)

Single • 2026
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Upward Collapse

Single • 2020
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The Berlin Concert

Single • 2018

Videos

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Angelika Niescier/Chris Tordini/Tyshawn Sorey @Jazzfest Berlin, Kundry

newarchives09 • 4.1K views
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Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey play Stevie Wonder's "Overjoyed", Iyer's "Entrustment"

SFJAZZ • 5.6K views
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American Patchwork Quartet: "Shenandoah"

New Sounds • 1.1K views
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Matthieu Bordenave La Porte Entrouverte (from the new album 'The Blue Land') | ECM Records

ECM Records • 4.5K views