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Early Music Hawaii Ensemble president Ian Capps and singer Keane Ishii join Morning Café to discuss the ensemble’s upcoming concert, The Polish Renaissance.
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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.
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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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Composer and pianist Thomas Osborne visits Morning Café ahead of the 50th-anniversary celebration of “Makrokosmos Volume I,” a monumental masterwork of 20th-century piano literature by George Crumb.
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Jim Moffitt joins Gene Schiller to share about the free Clarinet Trios concert that takes place on July 12 at the Orvis Auditorim.
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Lisa Nakamichi, founder of the Aloha International Piano Festival, joins Gene Schiller on Morning Café to discuss the upcoming inaugural Ke‘alohi International Piano Competition.
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Classical Pacific welcomes local composer Leilehua Lanzilotti, a Kānaka Maoli musician who recently received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a composition called “with eyes the color of time.”
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Classical Pacific welcomes Kathryn Schulmeister to the HPR-2 studio, where Kathryn shares her journey playing the double bass.
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Chamber Music Hawai‘i Board President Jim Moffitt joins Gene Schiller on Morning Café to share about the CMH’s final concert of the season.
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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.