Juhi Bansal

The narrative-driven music of Juhi Bansal spans genres and influences to create deeply expressive, evocative sound worlds. For her Recomposing America project, ACF has commissioned a new work for Del Sol Quartet as part of their Angel Island Concert Series held at the former immigration processing and detention center in the San Francisco Bay.

About the Commission

From 1910-40, Asian immigrants to the United States were subjected to racist and inhumane treatment at Angel Island. Among these immigrants were Indian families who left a country under heavy British colonial rule only to find more racial prejudice and systematic persecution. Currents Will Carry Our Rebellion examines the letters, poems, stories, and messages that were sent between San Francisco and India in a shared act of fighting oppression.

World Premiere: Currents Will Carry Our Rebellion
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2027, 12:00 p.m.
Angel Island Immigration Station Detention Barracks Museum
Tiburon, CA

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About Juhi Bansal

Juhi Bansal is an award-winning composer, conductor, and teacher. Originally from India and Hong Kong, her music draws upon elements as disparate as Hindustani music, the spectralists, progressive metal, musical theatre, and choral traditions to create deeply expressive, evocative sound worlds. Spanning every genre of acoustic concert music to multimedia to film, her music is always driven by storytelling, with a particular focus on stories of strong women, wilderness, and celebrating cultural and ideological diversity.

About Del Sol Quartet

San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet believes that music can, and should, happen anywhere. From concert halls to playgrounds, canyons to senior centers, Del Sol’s performances provide the possibility for unexpected discovery, sparking dialogue, and bringing people together. Del Sol has commissioned hundreds of works by composers including Terry Riley, Tania León, Frederic Rzewski, Gabriela Lena Frank, Vijay Iyer, and Chinary Ung. In 2017, Del Sol commissioned Huang Ruo’s ANGEL ISLAND, based on poetry carved into the detention barracks walls by Chinese detainees. That work grew into a Tribeca-nominated podcast and the Angel Island Concert Series, transforming a site once associated with exclusion into a space for collective reflection, learning, and belonging. Their music has been described as “excavations of beauty from the elemental” (New York Times) and “luminous yet corporeal” (LA Times). Recent recordings include The Resonance Between, a collaboration with Alam Khan & Arjun Verma.