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Tuesday Student Takeover: College Edition: Emily Fujii

Oboist Emily Fujii is pursuing a double major: English & Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Music at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Fujii started the oboe at Kaimuki Middle School, is an alum of the Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony and was a soloist with the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra as a winner of the Nā Hōkō ʻŌpio Young Stars concerto competition.

Fujii and her University of Hawaiʻi Wind Quartet will perform on July 19th, 2024 at Orvis Auditorium at 7 p.m. in preparation for their appearance at the International Double Reed Society conference in Arizona.

This Tuesday Student Takeover aired on July 9, 2024. Listen on demand to more student takeovers.

Sharene Keliʻipunilei Lum Taba grew up in Pearl City listening to a variety of music – mostly in the car and the choice of the driver (Grandma, Mom, Dad, sister or brother). It ranged from Hawaiian to Japanese Enka to Top 40 to HPR. Sharene played the violin in school, and is now a professional freelance harpist and mother. She and husband jazz bassist Dean Taba love to play and listen to music, and are raising their children to celebrate the love of learning and of all kinds of music.
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