Live From the Athertonʻs Classical Series presents The Honolulu Brass Quintet. The 2025 Classical Series ends with a fortissimo! Anna Lenhart (french horn) and David Nakazono (trumpet) talk to Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba about choosing the program, the music and the friendships. The Chamber Music Hawai`i ensemble, The Honolulu Brass Quintet performs on Saturday, August 30th.www.hawaiipublicradio/events

It’s Mia Yoshimoto’s last day. After three years as an executive assistant at Hawaii Public Radio, Yoshimoto is starting a new career in cosmetology. Before leaving HPR, she stopped by Evening Concert to share some of her favorite tunes from musical theater and opera productions that she’s worked on as a designer and wig master, including the I’m a Bright Kid Foundation’s recent production of Gypsy at Paliku Theater.

A harpist with Hawai`i Youth Symphonyʻs YSI orchestra, Arabella Tan recently participated in a summer STEM program at MIT and is back home to work on WikiVisionʻs upcoming fundraising concert at ʻIolaniʻs Seto Hall. The free concert features student performers and raises money through donations to help uninsured and underinsured patients cover cataract surgery and post-op support.

Harpist Megan Conley will be in concert at Hawaiʻi Public Radio's Live From the Atherton Classical Music Performance Series. The program will feature music by composers Claude Debussy, Leilehua Lanzilotti and Takuma Itoh.

Milton Lau, organizer of the 43rd Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival - Waikiki Style, invites listeners to enjoy great music under the stars at the Waikiki Aquarium, or online.facebook.com/slackkeyfestivals

Maestro Andrew Grams is in Hawaiʻi to lead the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra in the 2025 Sheraton Summer Festival Grand Finale Weekend. On Friday, Olgar Kern performs Beethoven, and on Sunday, the orchestra joins the final stage of the Keʻalohi International Piano Competition. Unsure which concerti the finalists will choose, Grams brought multiple scores. With his experience having conducted each piano concerto, he'll help create the best orchestral performance for the each soloist.

When Olga Kern won the Gold Medal prize of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, she was a new mother and hardly slept. Now on the piano faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and the Artistic Director and President of the Olga Kern International Piano Competition, Kern joins Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba in a conversation about Beethoven piano concerti, piano competitions and supporting young artists. Olga Kern is in Honolulu for the Grand Finale Weekend of Hawai`i Symphony Orchestraʻs Sheraton Summer Festival 2025.

Home for the summer, Laura Dux has been interning with Hawaii Public Radio's The Conversation and brightening up the HPR newsroom. The hard-working Mililani High School alum started her career in acting but fell in love with radio. As the summer comes to a close, and before Dux returns to Los Angeles, Dux and Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba finally get a chance to sit and talk story.

Kumu Hula Māhealani Uchiyama returns to Hawaiʻi with Pōpoloheno—Songs of Resilience and Joy, featuring an incredible lineup of artists and storytellers, including Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Kalani Peʻa. Peʻa rushes in from the airport to join Uchiyama and Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba to talk story about friendship and bringing songs to life.

Long time collaborators Oboist Alex Hayashi and bassoonist Shuo Shelly Li perform Live at the Atherton on Saturday August 16th. The sold out concert highlights the duoʻs roots in Asia with music by AAPI composers.https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/events/atherton-concert-series