Mana Music Quartet
Friday, April 4, 2025 • 7:30 P.M.
UHM Orvis Auditorium

The Mana Music Quartet was formed in March 2020 in Honolulu Hawaii with cellist Joshua Nakazawa, violinists Eric Silberger and Dr. Mann-Wen Lo and violist Duane Padilla. Their debut album “Queen Liliʻuokalani” won a Nā Hōkū Hanohano award in 2021 for Instrumental Album of the Year, and was featured in many publications including ones from the Star Advertiser Honolulu Magazine, Chamber Music America, and From the Top.

Joshua is the owner and founder of Mana Music LLC, and is currently a tenured member of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Mann-Wen lo currently teaches violin performance as a professor at the University of Houston. Eric Silberger, prize winner of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Michael Hill International violin competition concertizes worldwide as a virtuoso violinist. Duane Padilla, a 2011 Nā Hōkū Hanohano award winner for Jazz Album of the Year is currently a board member of the American String Teachers Association and teaches violin performance at the Punahou School. Learn more about the Mana Music Quartet and Mana Music LLC at www.manamusichawaii.com

The program will feature arrangements of works by Queen Liliʻuokalani and Dvořákʻs "American String Quartet.