America/Beautiful with Min Kwon and CPP students and faculty

“This project has grown into a multi-year commissioning initiative involving 76 composers from across generations and backgrounds, each reimagining America the Beautiful for solo piano. The works explore themes of identity, migration, diversity, and belonging, and together they form a kind of living anthology of American stories and ideals. With America’s 250th anniversary approaching in 2026, I am working to expand the project’s performances and presentations to include future generation of pianists, and thrilled to share this program with the community at Cal Poly Pomona.” -Min Kwon

Works by Reena Esmail, Vijay Iyer, Samuel Adler, Augusta Read Thomas, John Musto, Libby Larsen, Gyan Riley, John Harbison, Leila Adu Gilmore, Lei Liang, Victoria Bond, Avner Dorman, Michael Gandolfi, Melinda Wagner, Peter Boyer, Samuel Zyman, Greg Sandow, Dave Ragland, Shulamit Ran, Christopher Trapani, and Richard Danielpour

America/Beautiful Performers: Dr. Min Kwon with CPP Piano Faculty, Staff, and Students (Dr. Nadia Shpachenko, Dr. Iris Shiotsuki, Dr. Ryan Shiotsuki, Katie Bernardoni, Gianni Campos, Evan Huang, Josiah Kemp, Andrew Mazzeo, and Marina Zhang)

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For more information about Min Kwon's America/Beautiful project go to https://www.america-beautiful.com