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A University of Houston music professor is using his talents to help those grappling with food insecurity, according to Houston ABC affiliate KTRK.
The station reported that Professor of Practice Eunghee Cho with UH's Moores School of Music and his ensemble will host a free concert benefitting the Houston Food Bank at Christ Church Cathedral's Sanders Hall in Downtown Houston on April 19 at 7 p.m.
The concert will feature the works of Robert Schumann, Caroline Shaw and Piotr llyich Tchaikovsky, per the station.
The California-born Cho said he drew inspiration for the upcoming performance from a similar initiative in his native Boston.
"One of the things that I grew up experiencing in Boston was a wonderful project called Music for Food as a musician-led initiative to combat local hunger," the award-winning cellist told KTRK.
It's the second year he has put on the benefit concert.
Cho told KTRK that establishing the same thing in Houston was effortless, with the likes of the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet passionately signing on to help.
"Immediately having this mission of fighting local hunger was such a wonderful passion project that everyone could get on board with," he said, per the station. "I did not get a single 'no.'"
The inaugural concert last year brought in enough funds to make it possible to donate more than 2,000 meals, according to KTRK.
This year's donations will also go toward the Houston Food Bank. Online donations are also accepted at musicforfood.net/donate/.
Christ Church Cathedral is at 1117 Texas Ave.
Houston CBS affiliate KHOU reported that the Houston Food Bank issued a call for additional volunteers to address the demand created by the ongoing supply chain crisis and inflation.
“The pandemic was awful from a volunteer standpoint," the nonprofit organization's CEO, Brian Green, told KHOU. "This is why we received funding from first United Way, Greater Houston Community Foundation, then Harris County stepped in."