Sascha Groschang is a cellist, composer and a champion for new music. Shapeshifter is a new recording project featuring all midwest composers for violin, viola and cello. This recording will serve to put Kansas City on the map as a leading advocate for new music. Works will include Breathing Sunlight (viola/cello) by Akshaya Tucker, Shapeshifter (cello solo) by AJ Harbison, Waiting for the River to Freeze (string trio) by Laura Whitney-Johnson, Spurred Awakening by Cole Reyes, Fides Spes by Ingrid Stozel and Happy Tune by Chen Yi. Works will be performed by new music veterans Zsolt Eder, Boris Vayner and Sascha Groschang.