Andy Akiho Portrait Concert

Following his UMS debut last season alongside the Imani Winds, composer and percussionist Andy Akiho returns with his steelpan and the Brooklyn-based ensemble Sandbox Percussion, a quartet that came together in 2011 because of their interest in expanding the percussion repertoire.

This exhilarating ensemble champions living composers through an unwavering dedication to contemporary chamber music and has established a wider audience for classical music through collaborations with leading composers and artists.

For their UMS debut, they'll perform works by Andy Akiho from their many collaborations, dating back 15 years to when Akiho and Sandbox member Ian Rosenbaum met in graduate school. The program will include bespoke arrangements of Akiho's earliest works, selections from his Pulitzer Prize-winning composition Seven Pillars, and excerpts from a new large-scale piece, Pentalateral.