Coming Up in Spring 2024!
Sunday, May 19, 2024, 4pm at the Outrigger Kona Resort & Spa
Sunday, May 26, 2024, 4pm at the Historic Kawaiaha'o Church
Sunday, May 26, 2024, 4pm at the Historic Kawaiaha'o Church
- Lead by Joshua Habermann & Susan McCreary Duprey, OCS will join forces with the Kona Choral Society to create the stateʻs largest community-based chorus of more than 150 singers. Partnering with instrumentalists from Big Island, Maui and Oʻahu, the groups will present one Mozart work: Vesperae Solemnes de Confessore, along with two works of the great American composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms and Make Our Garden Grow from Candide.
Mahalo Nui for attending our past 2023-2024 performances!
October 22, 2023, 5pm at St. Andrew's Cathedral ~ William Byrd 400th Commemoration
November 5, 2023, 5pm at Kawaiaha'o Church ~ Great Romantics
December 1, 2023, 7:30pm at St. Andrew's Cathedral ~ Maluhia - Time of Peace
Sunday, February 25, 2024, 4pm at The Nakasone Performing Arts Center in Pearl City ~ Ka Leo O Ka Makani
- Featuring the OCS Chamber Choir and collaborating with St. Andrew’s Cathedral Choir, this program will mark the 400th commemoration of the death of the great English composer William Byrd (1543-1623). Byrd was an extraordinary figure in the history of English music, and was prolific in many different forms, from sacred to secular works.
November 5, 2023, 5pm at Kawaiaha'o Church ~ Great Romantics
- Featuring the OCS Symphonic Choir & UH Chamber Singers, with Thomas Yee & Tyler Ramos on piano, beautiful melodies by some of the greatest Romantic composers are set to overflow the halls of our royal Hawaiian monarchs.
December 1, 2023, 7:30pm at St. Andrew's Cathedral ~ Maluhia - Time of Peace
- Featuring the OCS Symphonic Choir, UH Chamber Singers, UH Concert Choir, with guest co-conductor Nola Nahulu, this concert is modeled after last year's successful collaboration of the joyful and reverent sounds of the season for all.
Sunday, February 25, 2024, 4pm at The Nakasone Performing Arts Center in Pearl City ~ Ka Leo O Ka Makani
- Featuring the OCS Symphonic Choir, University of Hawaiʻi & HPU Choirs, and the UH Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band, with guest co-conductor Jeff Boeckman, this performance celebrates the next generation of Oʻahu musicians, premiering a special arrangement of Britten's iconic work, Rejoice in the Lamb, Grand Canyon Fanfare by James Newton Howard and new arrangements of traditional Hawaiian songs.
Joshua Habermann, Oʻahu Choral Society and Nicholas Keone Lee, St. Andrewʻs Cathedral on Classical Pacific
Hawaii Public Radio | By Sharene Keliʻipunilei Lum Taba
Published October 15, 2023 at 10:36 AM HST
- The Oʻahu Choral Society and the Cathedral of Saint Andrew are teaming up to honor the great English composer William Byrd. Director of Oʻahu Choral Society Joshua Habermann and Music Director of St. Andrewʻs Cathedral Nicholas Keone Lee talk about the sound of an English church and their collaborative efforts to honor Bryd's sacred music ahead of the upcoming concert which marks the 400th commemoration of his death.
This classical music conversation aired on October 13, 2023. Classical Pacific airs weekdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on HPR-2.
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