Chamber Music Hawaiʻi’s Jim Moffitt and pianist Jonathan Korth joined Morning Café to preview the upcoming Trésemble concert, featuring Don Womack’s “Bones of Pele” for four-hand piano, performed by Korth and Tyler Ramos. The program, which is the final concert of the chamber group’s season, also includes Mozart’s Horn Quintet and Dohnányi’s Sextet.

Recent University Laboratory School graduate Eli Wolf will spend his summer playing guitar before heading to Reed College this fall. He credits his dedicated teachers, friends and his mother for their support. Catch Wolfe live this summer at ʻŌhana Jazz and the Pacific Music Institute.

Known for his extraordinary trumpet playing, his 10–12 piece Subtonic Orchestra, the jazz quartet Quadpod and his arrangements with the Royal Hawaiian Band, DeShannon Higa spoke with Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba about his work around town and his 30-year music career.

Bassist Shawn Conley will bring his quartet to Live at the Atherton Jazz Series at Hawaiʻi Public Radio in June. Conley and Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba recorded their conversation as the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra principal bassist was busy with family getting ready for a month-long trip with a performance at the International Society of Bassists Convention and several concerts.

During Spring Break, the award-winning Honokaʻa Jazz Band performed at the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea before heading to Oʻahu. Band director Gary Washburn and his students join Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba for a closer look at the dedicated musicians behind this Grammy Signature School program.

Hawaiʻi Symphony Composer-in-Residence, Michael Thomas Foumai discusses his original composition, "Raise Hawaiki" with HPR's John Zak. Foumai also offers a preview of upcoming HSO concerts.