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Tuesday Student Takeover: Jodie Wung

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Sharene Keliʻipunilei Lum Taba

Published May 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM HST

Jodie Wung, a senior at Mililani High School, is a cellist with the Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony’s YSI orchestra and the first-place winner in cello performance at the Elite International Music Competition. Following her performance in the Winners Recital at Carnegie Hall, Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba spoke with Wung as she prepared for the youth symphony’s Aloha Concerts and her upcoming graduation.

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Sharene Keliʻipunilei Lum Taba

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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