Pianist Ben Cosgrove “The Trouble with Wilderness”

Join us for an evening of music and conversation with Ben Cosgrove, a traveling composer and pianist whose “compelling and beautiful” instrumental music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. His fourth studio album, The Trouble With Wilderness, an evocation of various expressions of nature and wildness within the built environment, was released last year and has been called “beautiful and fascinating” (The Maine Edge), “deeply impressive” (Independent Clauses) and “immediately evocative and fully arresting… brim[ming] with technical mastery and emotional capital” (Seven Days). His nonfiction about place and landscape has appeared in Orion, Taproot, Northern Woodlands, Appalachia, and other publications. He will also be leading a workshop at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (https://www.sitkacenter.org/workshops/3214-reflecting-place-with-music ). More information about Ben and his work is at www.bencosgrove.com.