Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi

RIPPLING, RESISTANCE, AND RAIN

Sun,  April 26 — 3p.m.— Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz

Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi graces UC Santa Cruz’s Music Center Recital Hall with Rippling, Resistance, and Rain, a unique concert of 21st century piano music written by composers from Japan and the United States. The program opens with an imaginative fantasy of a bird, explores the psychology of addiction and mental illness, explores a liberating sense of dance, a deep exploration of “synaesthesic” texture, testifies to our profound crisis of human-caused climate change—and the need to resist it—and concludes whimsically with a scent of rain. Featuring the music of Samuel Adams, Ben Leeds Carson, Ben Dorfan, Sam Rider, Karen Tanaka, and Atsushi Yamanaka.

This event is a co-production of the Arts Council Santa Cruz County and April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music.