Please join us for an evening full songs and stories! Grammy and Nā Hōkū Hanohano award winning Slack Key Guitarist George Kahumoku, Jr., will guide us through some history with storytelling and music. Music will include Hawaiian hīmeni (hymns) and a special guest appearance from Malia Kaʻai Barrett. Bring an instrument for the kanikapila portion of the program and your singing voice for a sing-a-long!
Free admission; suggested donation: $20
The concert will be in-person only, and masks are encouraged. There will be no livestream broadcast.
Through the generous sponsorship of the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation and support from other individual supporters, this concert is free. Additional donations to support this concert and the entire series are gladly accepted online (details below) or at the concert.
First Mondays 2022–2023 Concert Series
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Join us for an exciting musical adventure exploring the various combinations of these four instruments in various trio formations. Yuseon Nam, violin, Alex Hayashi, oboe, Marie Lickwar, horn, and Jasmine Nagano, piano, perform music from the Romantic period into the 20th century. The lush romanticism of Brahms leads to the polytonality and quartal and quintal harmonies of Milhaud and on to the mature but lighthearted composition by Reinecke.
Composers of the Far North were often influenced by local religious beliefs, the constantly changing weather, and the many moods of pristine Nordic landscapes. In a variety of solo and chamber ensembles, our vocal and instrumental artists highlight the qualities of simplicity, minimalism, calmness, and meditation which exemplify so much Scandinavian music.
Join the BYU-Hawai‘i Hoʻolōkahi Chamber Choir (HCC) for “A Puni ka Honua,” an evening of contemporary choral music featuring composers from around the world. Experience everything from Korean special music to Filipino folksong to a new and timely setting of Ukraine’s National Anthem by Kurt Bestor. Featuring members from over a dozen countries, the Hoʻolōkahi Chamber Choir exists to fulfill the intercultural peacebuilding mission of BYU-Hawai‘i through song. The choir is known for its multimedia, collaborative concerts, which often include elements of dance, visual art, and the spoken word. HCC is also committed to premiering new works, effecting social change via musical means, collaborating with performing artists of all kinds on O‘ahu, and bringing the choir’s motto (“harmony in diversity”) to the wider world through international tours and recording projects. We hope you will join us! Suggested donation $20.
The First Mondays Concert Series continues with guest artists 545 Express. Glenn Ellington (baritone), Eric Faris (tenor), Scott Fikse (bass), and Ian Kelly (tenor), known as the “a cappella sensation of Celebrity Cruises” will perform a much-anticipated reunion concert in celebration of their 10-year anniversary. Audiences will be delighted by their diverse repertoire of show tunes, barbershop, contemporary a cappella, and jazz.
The First Mondays Concert Series continues with a program of Renaissance Polyphony by the Italian master Palestrina and his student Allegri. Scott Fikse conducts a chamber choir composed of members of the LCH Choir and guests as they perform motets, madrigals, and Palestrina’s heavenly Missa Aeterna Christi Munera.
Join us for a livestream concert featuring the wildly talented baritone Jacob Scharfman. Mr. Scharfman is a classically-trained American baritone performing opera, concert, and song repertoire. He won First Place in the 2021 National Opera Association Competition. Mr. Scharfman sang the 2019–20 season in the Opéra national du Rhin Studio, following his European début in the 2018–19 Salzburger Landestheater Studio. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the Merola Opera Program, he won the Oratorio-Lied Prize at the 2019 Viñas Contest in Barcelona and was a National Semi-Finalist in the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Mr. Scharfman has prepared a concert for our audience featuring the works of Mozart, Ravel, Bach, Tchaikovsky, and others. Suggested donation, $20.
While classical, Gospel, and contemporary popular music comprise the Morgan Singers’ repertoire; the choir is noted for its emphasis on preserving the heritage of the spiritual, especially in the historic practices of performance. The Morgan State University Choir has performed for audiences throughout the United States and all over the world—including Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Canada, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Join us for a rare opportunity to hear this outstanding choir during their spring tour to the islands.
While the modern brass quintet has only been around since the 1940s, a wealth of compositions has developed, ranging from the obvious bold and energetic works that horns are known for to the more tender and subtle repertoire these instruments are beautifully capable of playing.
Any list of the greatest composers of art song would be sorely incomplete without the names Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert.