Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi—April in 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.
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ADMISSION
– Free and open to the public
– Attend in-person at the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz
– Open admission (no ticket or registration required)
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PARKING
– Parking by permit, ParkMobile, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant
– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event
– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.
– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.
– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)
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FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
– This year’s festival includes seven events between April 15 and May 21, 2026
– Additional April in Santa Cruz events and information at aprilsc.ucsc.edu
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PIANIST KEISUKE NAKAGOSHI
IN RECITAL

image: photo of Keisuke Nakagoshi
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This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.