University Of Hawaii Manoa Music Department - MARCH 14-31, 2015 EVENTS

UH Guitar Concert Series:
Benny Chong, Byron Yasui, and Noel Okimoto
Saturday, March 14, 2015
7:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

The UH Guitar Concert Series concludes with jazz ‘ukulele master Benny Chong, with Byron Yasui, bass, and Noel Okimoto, drums.

Benny Chong is a founding member of The Aliis, a group that, together with Don Ho, rose to international fame in the 1960s. A highly respected regular on Hawaii's professional music circuit, Benny has taken jazz ‘uke playing to a level which will be very difficult to surpass. The musical challenges of his repertoire, his technical abilities, and his harmonic, melodic and rhythmic sense are on par with the best jazz musicians in the world. Noted musicians who hear him for the first time walk away in awe.

Tickets at the door: $12 general admission; $8 seniors, UH faculty, staff, students; $5 UHM music majors

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Tong-Il Han and Helen Lee, pianists

Sunday, March 15, 2015
4:00 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

The Ernest Chang Piano Studio and the UHM Music Department present husband and wife pianists Tong-Il Han and Helen Lee in a recital in memory of Hawaii's internationally recognized piano technician, Yoshihisa Nishimura.

Pianist Tong-Il Han has distinguished himself as a performer, recording artist, and educator in a musical career spanning over 50 years. He has performed with major orchestras throughout the USA, Europe, and Asia, and collaborated with many noted conductors, including Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Edo de Waart, Raphael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Charles Dutoit, Lukas Foss, Eugene Jochum, Raymond Leppard, Robert Shaw, Stanislaw Skrowaczeski, and David Zinman.

As both concert artist and teacher Tong-Il Han draws deeply on his Korean roots and Western musical heritage. For many years his foremost commitment has been to engender the artistic and humanistic development of the next generation of artists, teachers, and audiences in many parts of the world.

Helen Lee has studied piano performance with renowned musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Steven Bishop Kovachevich, James Tocco, Michel Block, Pamela Paul, and Vladimir Viardo. Her concert career covers cities in the USA, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and Mexico, including as a guest soloist with the Seoul Juenesse Orchestra, the University of North Texas Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Daegu Philharmonic Orchestra.

The recital will include:

Tickets: $25 general admission; $15 seniors, UH faculty, staff, students; $5 UHM music majors

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Nicholas Lum, tenor
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
2:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

Nichloas Lum, a student of Laurence Paxton, will perform a junior recital as part of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Arts in Voice.

Free admission

Nicole Huffman, soprano
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
7:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

Nicole Huffman, a student of John Mount in the BA (musical theater) program, will perform a student voice recital.

Free admission

Otis Whitman, baritone
Thursday, March 19, 2015
1:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

Otis Whitman, a student of John Mount, will perform a junior recital as part of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Arts.

Free admission

2015 Hawai‘i Day of Percussion
Saturday, March 28, 2015
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

Hawaii Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, Brigham Young University -- Hawaii, and the University of Hawai‘i -- Mānoa Music Department present a day of percussion, featuring clinics, solo and ensemble adjudication, and performances by six Hawaii school percussion ensembles.

Clinic Sessions

• 9:00 -- 10:00 a.m. Introduction to Percussion & Keyboard Techniques (Lisa Rogers & Alan Shinn, Texas Tech University)
• 10:00 -- 11:00 a.m. Tahitian Drumming: A Method to the Madness (Darren Duerden, BYU-H)
• 11:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m. Looping Improvisation (Robert Klieger, Milwaukee Symphony & Jordan Schifino, Hawaii Symphony & UH Manoa)

Performances

• 1:00 -- 3:00 p.m. by BYU-Hawaii Shaka Steel, University of Hawaii Percussion Ensemble, Jarrett Middle School Percussion Ensemble, Kahuku High School Percussion Ensemble, Niu Valley Middle School Percussion Ensemble, Hawaii Youth Percussion Ensemble.

$10 general admission, $5 students & PAS members

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UH Saxophone Choir
Monday, March 30, 2015
7:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

The University of Hawaii Saxophone Choir, a student/community ensemble under the direction of Todd Yukumoto, will premiere many new works for the ensemble. Stepen Barr's Dorian Canons and Thomas Osborne's Blur were composed specifically for this performance. New arrangements, including Bernstein's Slava (arr. Dennis Kaneshiro), Grainger's Molly on the Shore (arr. John Peterson) and Glinka's Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla (arr. Yukumoto) round out the program.

Guest conductors include former UH Lecturer of Saxophone Kazu Sunabe and Director of the UH Marching Band David Blon.

Come join us for a wonderful evening of saxophone music making at its very best!

Tickets $12 general admission; $8 seniors, UH faculty/staff/students; $5 UHM music majors

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Keilana Mokulehua, soprano
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
1:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

Keilana Mokulehua, a student of Martina Bingham, will present a junior recital as part of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Arts.

Free admission

UH Percussion Ensemble
Tue, March 31, 2015
7:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

The UH Percussion Ensemble (David Blon, director, Jordan Schifino, assistant director), is a student/community group. The concert will feature the music of John Bergamo, Jared Spears, Dave Brubeck, Nebojša Jovan Živković, Terry O'Mahoney, Michel Camilo, Ray Flores, and Stephen Barr.

Free admission

Coming in early-mid April

• Artistic Exaltation Chamber Orchestra (from China's Central Conservatory of Music)
• UH Opera Workshop in Concert
• UH Piano Project
• Graduate Composers Symposium
• UH Gamelan Ensembles - in memory of Hardja Susilo
• Student recitals by Bryson Terazono, baritone; Sophia Serafino, soprano; Casey Kitano, tuba; Xin Lin, piano; Noa Araki, trumpet; Bei Xi, piano; Jihyun Rossi, flute; Gavin Tsutsumi, oboe; Daniel Lucas, cello - and that's only the first half of April!