chamber music

Hawaiʻi Chamber Music Festival president Chris Yick joined Classical Pacific to preview the festival’s seventh season. This year’s theme, Cultural Celebrations, brings communities together through music as part of the Ellen Masaki ʻOhana Series. The nine-day festival opens June 14 with the Aloha Junction Trio, preceded by a Q&A with Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba.

Virtuoso violinist Yxing Guo of Honolulu graduated last week from the Colburn Music Academy, where she attended the pre-college program during her junior and senior years of high school. This fall, she will return to attend the Colburn Conservatory of Music. Hear from this From the Top alum on this edition of Tuesday Student Takeover.

Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Chris Yick, the founder and President of the Hawaiʻi Chamber Music Festival has offered a tuition-free music festival experience to local students since 2018. This year, the Hawaiʻi Chamber Music Festival opens enrollment to string players and pianists.

Executive Director of Hawai`i Chamber Music Festival, Chris Yick talks about how the festival has grown since itʻs founding in 2018. Yick previews highlights from next weekʻs festival, and talks about the sponsors, the artists and the students that make up the HCMF community.

Evening Concert host Craig DeSilva interviews cellist Camden Shaw from the Dover Quartet. The quartet performs at UH’s Orvis Auditorium on November 18 in a concert presented by Honolulu Chamber Music Series. Shaw explains how their program of music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schnittke are connected.

Tubaist Dr. Thomas J. Ricer joined Morning Café to share about the upcoming Chamber Music Hawai‘i concerts featuring the Honolulu Brass Quintet.

Richard Strauss’s “Metamorphosen” and Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet have more in common than you’d think. Listen to this preview of a free concert featuring the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Orion String Quartet. George Hudes of Honolulu Chamber Music Series shares his insights on Evening Concert with host Craig DeSilva.

In gratitude for the thirty years Hawai‘i has nurtured his professional life, Hawai‘i Symphony principal oboist Scott Janusch came up with a novel idea.…

Does Honolulu really need more chamber music? Emphatically, yes! According to one young musician who has already staged a string of successful concerts…

Many know the history of the music and dance form called tango—how it grew out of the working class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina and…