Hawaiʻi Vocal Arts Ensemble conductor Collin Boothby spoke with Classical Pacific ahead of the ensemble’s concert, “Beretania!,” on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 4 p.m. at Sacred Hearts Academy Chapel in Honolulu.

In this special conservation conversation, Dr. Lum looks to the evening sky to explore the evolution of bats, with special attention to Hawaiʻi’s state mammal, the ōpeʻapeʻa.

Evening Concert celebrated National Harp Day with invited guests Sharene Taba, Hawaiʻi Public Radio’s resident harpist and host of Classical Pacific, and her student Annika Young, a fifth grader at ʻIolani School and a member of the Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony. They shared music that shows how the harp’s unique sound can light up a room with a little bit of magic.

Waiākea High School senior Keira Ida Ayu is on a mission to bring the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra to Hawaiʻi Island. She is organizing HSO’s visit for her senior project. The orchestra will perform at a community concert and two educational concerts on March 4-5, 2027, at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.

This concert, titled ALOHA FRIDAY, begins season 8, and was performed at the Orvis Auditorium at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in honor of a legendary figure in Hawaiʻi’s classical music scene, Henry Miyamura. It features opening remarks by HCMF founder and president, Chris Yick and HCMF Artistic Director/Violinist, Stefan Jackiw.

Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus JoAnn Falletta returns to Hawaiʻi to conduct Beethoven's Triple Concerto. She spoke with Gene Schiller on Morning Café ahead of HSO's Friday, Oct. 16 performance at Blaisdell Concert Hall.

Classical Pacific’s Sharene Taba speaks with Marie Staples and Kyle Conner, cast members in Diamond Head Theatre’s production of "Fiddler on the Roof," running through Oct. 18 in Honolulu.

Listen to a rebroadcast of “The Junction Trio in Concert." This concert is a rebroadcast from season 7 of the Hawaiʻi Chamber Music Series. It features a lively conversation with HCMF Founder and President, Chris Yick, Classical Pacific’s Sharene Taba, and HPR’s Producer of Special Broadcasts, John Kalani Zak.

From the venerable American String Quartet, celebrating more than 50 years of artistry, to the exciting young Motus Quartet, founded in 2022, the Honolulu Chamber Music Series' (HCMS) 2026-27 season spans generations of world-class chamber music. HCMS board member Helen Chao-Casano previewed the new season on Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva.

Chamber Music Hawaiʻi’s Jim Moffitt joined Morning Café to preview the upcoming American Independence concert, featuring the Spring Wind Quintet with Jonathan Korth.