Shi-An Costello sways in front of a sunset star field wearing all black clothes and a stocking cap

In 2015, when pianist and composer Shi-An Costello was 28 years old, he learned his Chinese given name. It was written in his maternal grandfather’s hand, on an errant slip of paper tucked between old medical documents: 可 世 安, or “Co Shi-An.” For his entire life, Costello had been going by Andrew, his legal […]

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