Sharene Keliʻipunilei Lum Taba
Host, Classical Pacific; Board OperatorSharene 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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Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba welcomes bassist Shawn Conley to HPR-2, who recently returned to Hawai‘i after spending time in Brooklyn and Houston. A member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and principal bassist with the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra, Shawn is also a member of The Knights, a Brooklyn-based chamber orchestra collective dedicated to transforming the concert experience. -
Hawaiian choral conductor Aunty Nola Nāhulu joins Sharene Taba on Classical Pacific to share about the sing-along event held at Kawaiahaʻo Church in honor of Queen Liliʻuokalani’s birthday.
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Grant Okamura, Professor of Music, Emeritus at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, joins Sharene Taba to talk story about the classical genre within the local band ensemble community.
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We're kicking off a new series of Bridging the Gap, called The Time Capsule... where we take a deep dive into a single historical moment in musical…
