Aloha, Hawaii!

Tomorrow we head to Hawaii for 10 days of rehearsals, performances, education events…. and hopefully a moment of downtime to enjoy all that Hawaii has to offer! After months of planning, we are so ready to take on this adventure and share some awesome new music with all of you.

We hope you’ll follow along with our Hawaiian adventures over the next few weeks. We’ll share updates along the way on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, so please connect with us online - or in person if you happen to be in Hawaii! You can find more information about our trip in our Hawaii 2020 section, as well as a listing of individual events on our Events page.

In the meantime, we hope you’re enjoying our beautiful new artwork by the amazing Brendan Wenzel, featuring Hawaiian birds including the ‘apapane, the i’iwi, the amakihi, and the Laysan albatross. (You can catch more of it on our social media feeds.)

As we make our final preparations, we’ll leave you with an excerpt from one of our new Hawaii pieces, Adaptation Variations by Takuma Itoh. Takuma’s piece was commissioned with a grant from Chamber Music America, and it is both extremely beautiful and a joy to play. Here’s the main theme and a taste of the variations!

Mahalo to all who have helped us throughout this preparation process. See you in Hawaii!