HSO’s Michael-Thomas Foumai on Evening Concert

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Craig DeSilva

Published March 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM HST

From Shostakovich’s 5^th to Assassin’s Creed and even Jabba the Hut. There’s a lot going on with the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra this month. HSO composer-in-residence Michael-Thomas Foumai stopped by Evening Concert to update us on HSO’s Beethoven Festival: Side-by-Side concert with the Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony, Game On!, and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert.

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Craig DeSilva

Craig DeSilva is glad to be playing recorded music on the air instead of playing for a live audience on stage as did when he studied piano. He began piano lessons when he was a child and continued piano studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (where he majored in broadcast journalism and minored in music) under the late Peter Coraggio.

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