Composer and jazz pianist Vijay Iyer will be the first of four virtual performances in the third season of the Donald P. Pipino Performing Arts Series.

All events will take place online for this season, but that also means all presentations will be free and open to the public.

According to Cliffe College Dean Phyllis M. Paul, “We’re thrilled to continue the Pipino Performing Arts Series this semester. Although the events will be presented virtually, we couldn’t be happier with the exceptional quality of the artists who will make up the spring season. YSU believes that the arts are vital to the university and our community and is committed to supporting our many artistic endeavors.”

Iyer will give a one-hour presentation that includes pre-recorded music, conversation and a question-and-answer session at 7 p.m. Wednesday that can be viewed on the Cliffe College of Creative Arts’ YouTube channel. He also will present a master class at 2 p.m. Friday via Zoom that will be accessible at www.ysu.edu/dana.

A MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellow and four-time winner of DownBeat magazine’s artist of the year, Iyer is a musical innovator, an active collaborator, and a member of multiple artistic communities who continues to reimagine the role of the musician in the 21st century.

Other performers this season:

• Du Yun, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Chinese composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and performance artist. She will host a master class at 4 p.m. Feb. 17 and a presentation at 7 p.m. that day. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera “Angel’s Bone,” with libretto by Royce Vavrek, and she was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

• Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, who will give a presentation at 7 p.m. March 3 and host a master class at 4 p.m. March 4. Costanzo is a headlining Metropolitan Opera soloist and was named Musical America’s 2019 vocalist of the year. His debut album, “ARC,” was nominated for a 2019 Grammy.

• Multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey, who will give a presentation at 7 p.m. April 14 and host a master class at noon April 16. A MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellow, Sorey has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles as well as numerous artists of note. He has composed works for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the International Contemporary Ensemble and tenor (and Youngstown native) Lawrence Brownlee with Opera Philadelphia in partnership with Carnegie Hall. He is currently assistant professor of music and African American studies at Wesleyan University.

Access links for presentations given by Yun, Costanzo and Sorey will be provided later.

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