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Save the Date for our Upcoming Concerts

A Time of Romance, Peace, Nature, & Travel...

For our 2023 - 2024 Season, OCS is thrilled to present four sensational concerts, featuring multiple collaborations & musical guests, with a final culmination of two concerts which will be the first of its kind in Hawai'i Nei!

October 22, 2023, 5pm at St. Andrew's Cathedral ~ William Byrd 400th commemoration
  • 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.

February 25, 2024, at Pearl City Performing Arts Center ~ Voices and Winds
  • Featuring the OCS Symphonic Choir, University of Hawaiʻi Choirs, UH Wind Ensemble, 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. 

May 19 - 26, 2024, Concerts held in Kona & Honolulu ~ Inter-island Collaboration & Tour 
  • Lead by Joshua Habermann & Susie Duprey, OCS will join forces with the Kona Choral Society to create the largest community-based chorus of more than 150 singers; being the FIRST EVER inter-island choral-orchestral collaboration of the two largest symphonic choirs in Hawai'i. Partnering with instrumentalists from Big Island, Maui and O'ahu, the groups will present two Mozart works: Venite Populi for double chorus, and 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.
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​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.
Presented by the Oʻahu Choral Society and the Cathedral of Saint Andrew, "William Byrd: Music for a Secret Chapel" takes place on October 22.

This classical music conversation aired on October 13, 2023. Classical Pacific airs weekdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on HPR-2.

Click here to listen about the magic behind the music!

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