Leo Eguchi: Unaccompanied

Leo Eguchi is an in-demand cellist and co-founder of both Oregon’s Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival and Boston’s Sheffield Chamber Players. He performs in regional ensembles including New Bedford Symphony (as principal cellist), Portland Symphony, and the Boston Pops. Eguchi steps out on his own with “Unaccompanied”, a performance featuring eight short new works by immigrant and first-generation American composers for solo cello. Inspired by his experience growing up in a mixed-race Japanese American family in the Midwest and questioning how he fit in the communities he inhabited, Eguchi commissioned composers whose own work draws from their unique immigrant and mixed-race experiences to answer the question, “What does your American-ness sound like?” Composers include James Diaz, Frank Duarte, Kareem Roustom, Shaw Pong Liu, Kenji Bunch, Milad Yousufi, Earl Maneein, and José-Luis Hurtado. This concert is made possible by the Granoff Music Fund.

This event will be livestreamed at: go.tufts.edu/musiclivestream