Orchid Isle Orchestra performs “Free and Happy” at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Waiakea High School Band Room.
OIO is a community orchestra dedicated to teaching and nurturing musicians of all ages.
The public is invited to this free (and happy) concert.
Highlights include a world premiere orchestral work by OIO’s resident conductor David MacKenzie, music from the Bach Double Violin Concerto, a Brahms Scherzo that inspired the concert’s theme, “Fantasy on Aloha ‘Oe” by Brian Balmages, an arrangement of Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” (from “Despicable Me 2”), music inspired by Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” and concert-opening music performed by Young Music Studio students (more Bach and Brahms).
The two Bach Double violin soloists are Yuma Kamuro and Joanna Coates.
Yuma is a sophomore at Waiakea High School, and has studied violin for six years. Joanna is 13 and enjoys fantasy novels when she’s not playing violin or busy with her seventh-grade curriculum as a home-school student.
Maestro MacKenzie had OIO players in mind when he composed “Sometimes Leaping, Sometimes Dancing.”
The movement is part of a larger suite, still in progress. Featured in the music are pianist Walter Greenwood (OIO’s assistant conductor and president), plus two percussionists, Keira Ida Ayu from Waiakea High School and Ilana Moidel Acevedo.
All donations are welcome and tax-deductible.