Your HSO launches the 23/24 HapaSymphony Series with BeyondHapa. BeyondHapa is an evening of music that celebrates diversity, and authenticity and features an abundance of Hawai’i-born artists. Mesmerizing songstress Lea Almanza, jazzy Starr Kalahiki, incomparable pianist Lady Laritza La Bouche, the riveting Maddison Westwood , and the legendary Brandy Lee will join your favorite orchestra to bring you a spine-tingling symphonic experience. Renowned Hawai’i performer Cocoa Chandelier will be our host for the evening and we’ll even have a special appearance by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Honolulu.

Jennifer Koh, violin

R. Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel
Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 1, K. 207
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

Akiko Suwanai, violin

23 times Nā Hōkū Hanohano winner Na Leo Pilimehana has been sharing their gift of music with Hawai'i for over three decades with hits like “Local Boys”, “I Miss You My Hawaii” and their popular 2007 album “Hawaiian Holidays: Christmas with Na Leo”. Kick off the holiday festivities  with your HSO and merry melody makers, Nalani Jenkins, Lehua Kalima and Angela Morales for a Christmas concert unlike any other.

Schwertsik - Shrunken Symphony
Hovhannes - Symphony No. 15 "Silver Pilgrimage"
Fein - Trumpet Concerto
Mozart - Jupiter Symphony

Zachary Silberschlag, trumpet

Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice

Yaron Lifschitz, director
Christoph Dumaux, Orpheus
Cathy Di-Zhang, Eurydice

Huang Ruo - Tipping Point (co-commission, Pacific premiere)
Tan Dun - Crouching Tiger Concerto
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde

Mark Votapek, cello

Acclaimed for her originality in song composition and spellbinding, soulful vocals, Paula Fuga is one of Hawaiʻiʻs top female musicians in generations. A poet at heart and an accomplished ukulele player, Paula has intertwined her passions into award-winning songwriting. Paula Fuga and your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra unite to present an enchanting evening of music.

Fallen brothers cross paths in the multiverse of operatic masterworks. Music Director Dane Lam shares his deep love of opera with a guided tour of Mozart’s seminal opera, Don Giovanni, interspersed with Britten’s breathtaking Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes.

Singers TBA

Robert Cazimero is back by popular demand with your Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra! Grammy-nominated and 25x Nā Hōkū Hanohano winner, Robert Cazimero reunites with your HSO to perform some of his greatest hits and new tunes. Join us for an evening of Hawaiian Symphonic mele with one of Hawai’i’s most iconic voices.

Beethoven - Overture to Fidelio
Beethoven - Piano Concerto
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5

An audience favorite for over a century, this tale of four young Parisians who dedicate their lives to art and love is guaranteed to touch your heart. Puccini’s lush, romantic score perfectly captures the simple joys and heartbreaking sorrows of the idealistic young. Their camaraderie, conviction, and passions, masterfully conveyed by an iconic score, make La Bohème easy to love—and impossible to forget.

HOT’s production features an all-Asian principal cast that celebrates the diversity of talent the opera world has to offer. 

For over two decades, Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro has taken the ‘ukulele to points previously thought impossible and amazed the world with his high-energy ukulele interpretations of everything from Hawaiian instrumentals to the Beatles to Bach. Shimabukuro reunites with the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra to present a truly unique night of contemporary symphonic music.

Bonds, Margaret - The Montgomery Variations
Price - Piano Concerto
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

The 23-24 Halekulani Masterworks season finale concludes with Dane Lam conducting Michael-Thomas Foumai’s (HSO Composer-in Residence) epic Hōkūleʻa oratorio, Raise Hawaiki. Setting the words of Nainoa Thompson, Eddie Aikau, and Mau Pialug, Foumai’s sweeping choral symphony voyages through decades of Polynesian wayfinding. Journey through the trials and triumphs of the awakening Hawaiian consciousness, the 1976 maiden voyage to Tahiti, the Mālama Honua worldwide voyage, and the dream to “Raise Hawaiki from the sea.” (Eddie Aikau).