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CLINICS

Hawaii Music Festivals® tour company can arrange workshops for visiting groups. The sessions are designed to improve technique, achieve better balance and dynamics, improve intonation, and overall musicality. Grant Okamura, Director of Bands at the University of Hawaii leads the band and orchestra clinics. He brings with him 14 years of experience as a director of a highly successful high school band program and 25 years as the Director of Bands at the University of Hawaii. He is the assistant conductor of the Honolulu Symphony
Orchestra and director of the Hawaii Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has
conducted many workshops for visiting bands, honor and select bands and
music camps throughout the continental United States and Canada.

Dr. Robert Foster, Professor of Music at the University of Kansas and James Swearingen, Professor of Music at Capital University are our clinicians at the Hawaii Band Festival.

Rachel Samet, the Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Hawaii at Manoa leads our choral clinics. A popular clinician and adjudicator, Ms. Samet has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boston University, as well as at high schools and middle schools. Equally at home in the world of theater, she has conducted opera and numerous musical theater productions. Ms. Samet is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting and Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and holds degrees in music from Boston University and Oberlin College.

Dr. Janet Galvan, Professor of Music at Ithaca College is our clinician at the Hawaii Choral Festival.

Choral Clinic

Janet Galvan

Band Clinic

Robert Foster

Clinic at University of Hawaii Music School