Echoes of Home brings together new works exploring the places, people, and memories that shape our sense of belonging. While the project began as an invitation for Asian American composers to reflect on growing up within Los Angeles' vibrant Asian American communities, it soon expanded into a broader meditation on home in all its forms—whether rooted in Los Angeles, carried across continents, or found in the people and traditions we hold close.

For the Asia America New Music Institute, our concerts at the Sierra Madre Playhouse  also mark something of a homecoming. Though AANMI has cultivated artistic communities across the East Coast, Utah, and throughout Asia, this program represents a growing commitment to Los Angeles—the city where its founder and many of its artists live, have lived, and continue to create. As AANMI deepens its roots here, Echoes of Home celebrates not only the places from which we come, but also the communities we choose to build together.

ENSEMBLE:
Kyle Gilner & Chad Cannon, violins
Rita Andrade, viola
Niall Taro, cello
Ari Sol, harp
Coco Ma, piano

Miko Shudo, vocals

PROGRAM:
SunYoung Park
Monologue II - West Coast Premiere
Solo piano

Chad Cannon
Title TBA - Premiere

Niall Taro
Mikan no omoide - 2. Hi no kisetsu; 3. Mi ni shimu / toshi no yo
String quartet + harp

Weijun Chen
Title TBA - Premiere
Solo Piano

Kian Ravaei
Family Photos - 3. In Arcadia
String quartet

Nichagarn Chiracharasporn
Lilac
String quartet

Alex Williams
Sea of Light
String quartet & harp

Emily Chiu
Smelly Dumpings
Solo voice + ensemble

Ari Sol
Strum! I. Power Chords
String quartet & harp