Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi graces UCSC's Music Center Recital Hall with 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 concludes whimsically with a scent of rain. Featuring the music of Samuael Adams, Ben Leeds Carson, Ben Dorfan, and Atsushi Yamanaka. This performance is part of the April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music 2026 (AiSC). See the full calender of events here.