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The University of Hawai'i Saxophone Choir

Now available as a class credit at The University of Hawai'i at Manoa!
Spring 2019 MUS410R (1 Credit)

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3rd Annual Hawai'i High School Saxophone Ensemble
Auditions

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The Hawaii Saxophone Foundation will hold auditions for the second annual Hawaii High School Saxophone Ensemble. Students will have the opportunity to work with Hawaii’s top saxophone music educators and professionals and will rehearse weekly in preparation for a concert with the University of Hawaii Saxophone Choir. This ensemble is open to High School Students with at least two years of saxophone experience. 

Audition date: December 15, 2019. 10am at Managua Middle School Band Room
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Highlights from Saxophone Masterclass with Allen Won

March 20, 2018
Kalani High School Band Room
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Hearing and Instrument Care Masterclass

Sept. 3, 2018 6:30pm
Moanalua Middle School Band Room

Free Admission
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Jazz Masterclass

May 17, 2018 6:30 pm
​Moanalua Middle School Band Room
​Free Admission

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Highlights from the
​2018 Hawai'i High School Saxophone Ensemble 



Students from six high schools on Oahu committed to rehearsals on Sunday mornings with Director David Hirano. Mr. Hirano also taught numerous masterclasses covering reeds, embouchure, tongue position, air support, posture, and instrument carriage. They performed two pieces at the UH Saxophone Choir Concert on March 18, 2018 and performed the last piece together with the college and community members. 
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This newly created High School Saxophone Ensemble was developed and sponsored by the Hawai'i Saxophone Foundation. We are very grateful for the large participation and for a very successful ensemble. We hope to continue this program in the years to come! Congratulations to all these talented young saxophonists!

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 Blur is the first piece commissioned by the Hawaii Saxophone Foundation. Composed by UH Professor Thomas Osborne he describes his piece as a reflection between music and the visual arts.

“Whether one is composing a new piece or taking a photograph, one must consider some of the same basic principles: proportion, color and form. Many of my favorite photographs using long exposures, photos in which the tail lights of a passing car may paint vivid red streaks across the frame.”
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Blur is a sonic attempt to recreate those effects through sweeping long tones across the texture like crisscrossing beams of color juxtaposed to undulating rhythms and sonorities.

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