Kauai Association for Music Education

05/26/2023

Here is our 2nd year culmination for our KOKO (violin) program, in partnership with All Saints'Preschool! Congratulations class of 2023!

03/23/2022

to our December "informance" with a Jamaican classic arranged for strings, "Montego Bay". Looking forward to what the Spring brings!

Mahalo to The D'Addario Foundation, Mokihana Club, Rotary Club Po'ipu, Boys and Girls Club of Lihue, Kapaa, and all our other wonderful community members for giving these kids the opportunity to continue to learn and grow as young orchestral players!

04/25/2020

Keeping KOKO going during the pandemic, thanks to the hard work of our Director, Megan Lawson!

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01/13/2020

Mr. Michael Nakasone was our Kaua'i Youth Honor Band and KCC Wind Symphony guest conductor a few years ago. Congratulations, Maestro!

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On Saturday, February 1, 2020, the National Band Association will induct the two newest members of the NBA Hall of Fame of Distinguished Conductors – Dr. David Gregory and Mr. Michael Nakasone. Read more about these distinguished conductors here: https://nationalbandassociation.org/hall-of-fame-inductees-announced/

01/06/2020

Mark your calendars for Sunday, January 12! This will be a great performance!

Our annual classical chamber music fundraiser for Kauai United Way is next Sunday! Musicians from San Francisco’s symphony, ballet and opera orchestras and the Baltimore symphony. You would pay much more to see them perform on the mainland! Get tickets NOW! Click the link for more information.

12/26/2019

Mele Kalikimaka from the Kaua`i All-Island Band! 🎄 Mahalo for all the support you have given us!

12/02/2019

We know there are lots of non-profits asking for money on GivingTuesday. Here are some reasons we hope you will consider us:

None of the public schools have beginning orchestral strings? Don't worry we have a program through the Kaua'i Boys and Girls Club called the Kaua'i 'Opio and Keiki Orchestra. Students receive free lessons.

Students need the opportunity to work with amazing guest conductors? That's what Kaua'i Youth Honor Band is for.

Students need quality feedback for performing solos and chamber music? Kaua'i Solo any Ensemble Festival was created for this purpose. There wasn't a Solo and Ensemble Festival on Kaua'i until just a few years ago.

Uniting the whole island for the purpose of taking students to travel the world? The Kaua'i All-Island Band has been to California and Washington, DC. Next stop is Japan, and then who knows after that...London, NYC, Chicago?

And so many more projects we would like to do:..a master class series where we fly in professional musician educators to give master classes for all of our musicians (student and adult) since almost all of the students don't take private lessons...a jazz improvisation workshop series so people can work on their solos in an educational environment...sponsored trips for students to travel to 'Oahu when there are masters classes and clinics there...intermediate orchestra as a part of KOKO once our beginners have played for a few years...a physical space we can hold rehearsals in....and much more!

Thank you for your time and consideration!

11/25/2019

About a week until our first performance of December! Hope you're join us!

09/05/2019

Our second session started today! Thank you to the Boys and Girls Club-Lihue Clubhouse for partnering with us again!

07/23/2019

The Kauai All-Island Band, another program if KAFME, started band camp yesterday in preparation for their trip to Japan in June of 2020.

🎶 Hard work, pays off 🎶