Franck, Le chasseur maudit
Lieberson, Neruda Songs
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"

Fleur Barron, mezzo soprano

Join us for a magical start to the Holiday season in authentic island fashion! Let Music Director Dane Lam and your HSO fill the air with the joyous sounds of the holidays, featuring local favorites, sing-alongs, and special guest appearances. Take part in a new HapaSymphony tradition at the historic Hawaii Theatre - the Hapa Holiday Extravaganza!

Exciting guest artists, TBA.

Barber, Knoxville Summer of 1915
Huang Ruo, Tipping Point*
Mahler, Symphony No. 4

Sofia Troncoso, soprano

*co-commission with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing

“At the symphony, everyone can hear you scream!” – Dane Macabre (Maestro Dane Lam)

Join your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra for an evening of Hawaiʻi’s best ghost stories and spooky music favorites, narrated by HI Now Daily Correspondent Lauren Teruya. Come in costume, if you dare! Sunday’s matinee offers a family-friendly version of the show.

Adams, The Chairman Dances from "Nixon in China"
Barber, Violin Concerto
Foumai, Concerto for Orchestra
Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"

Ray Chen, violin

Ashlyn Keiler, Tangling, Turning Twisting (world première)
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3
Mozart, Requiem

Jeremy Sun, piano
Eline van Bruggen, soprano
Beth Allen, mezzo soprano
Arya Darth, tenor
Timothy Nielson, baritone

Mozart/Da Ponte, Cosi fan tutte

Patrick Nolan, director

Fiordiligi, Sky Ingram
Dorabella, Anna Dowsley
Ferrando, Kyle Steggal
Guglielmo, Nicholas Lester
Despina, Jessica Dean
Don Alfonso, Christopher Hillier

State Opera Chorus
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

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).

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

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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.

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

Mark Votapek, cello

Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice

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

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

Zachary Silberschlag, trumpet

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.

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

Akiko Suwanai, violin

Jennifer Koh, violin

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.

Dane Lam makes his official debut on the podium as Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra’s first Music Director in its 12-year history. You’ll hear a mash-up of the upcoming 23-24 Masterworks season; including movements from Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov, and more.

This concert will feature a performance by a winner of our 2023 Nā Hōkū ‘Ōpio Young Stars music competition.

Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Eden Court, Inverness
His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

John Fulljames, Director

Justina Grinfyte, Carmen
Philip Rhodes, Escamillo
Hye-Young Lee, Micaëla

Stravinsky - Le baiser de la fée, divertimento
Grandage - Dances with Devils: Percussion Concerto
Beethoven - Excerpts from The Creatures of Prometheus

Claire Edwardes, percussion

WACA Ground

Stuart Maunder, director
Ashlyn Tymms, Carmen
Paul O'Neill, Don José
Philip Rhodes, Escamillo

West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Moanalua Performing Arts Centre

Program to include:
Michael Daugherty, Timpani Concerto "Raise the Roof"
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

Brad Davis, timpani

Brisbane Riverstage

Queensland Premiere

Join our disco inferno with Australian award winning pop diva PAULINI and star of stage and screen Ben Mingay, live on stage with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dane Lam. This is your chance to celebrate the electrifying music from artists like Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees, Earth Wind and Fire, through to Sister Sledge’s We are Family and Gloria Gaynor’s I will Survive plus much more.

Voices of Vic Park will feature a free concert by Opera Queensland’s most talented singers, including Tania Ferris and Carlos Barcenas, with Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra,

QPAC Concert Hall

Likhuta, Through Healer's Eyes (world premiere)
Verdi, Requiem

Repertoire to include:
Butterfly Lovers Concerto
Yellow River Concerto

Tony Lee, piano
Anna da Silva Chen, violin
Sharon Zhai, soprano
Victoria Lambourn, mezzo soprano
Angie Liu, guzheng

QPAC Concert Hall
Natalie Aroyan, Soprano
Deborah Humble, Mezzo Soprano
José Carbó, Baritone
Brisbane Chorale

UQ Centre, St Lucia, Queensland

Bračanin, Dance Gundah
Barton/Serret, Bush(fire) Requiem (world première)
Dvorák, Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

William Barton, didgeridoo
Véronique Serret, Violin/vocals

Sydney Opera House, April 29 - May 15
Opera Australia Orchestra

Arts Centre Melbourne, May 3 - 8
Orchestra Victoria

Mahler, Blumine
Grenfell, Clockwerk
Popper, Hungarian Rhapsody
Brahms, Symphony No. 2

WACA Ground

Xi'an Concert Hall

QPAC

Perth Concert Hall

Perth Concert Hall

Gale Edwards AM, Director
Canberra Symphony Orchestra

Urban Arts Project, Brisbane

2pm at UQ Centre, Australia

With Jayson Gillham, piano

Orchestra Victoria and Star Cinema present an exclusive screening of The New Babylon – the 1929 Russian silent film that has become an arthouse classic

Patrick Nolan, Director
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Opera Queensland Chorus

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Brisbane City Gospel Choir, Voices of Birralee – Youth Choir, Vocal Manoeuvres Carols Choir and the Carols Dancers

Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Opera Queensland Chorus

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra