2025 Aloha State Choral Festival
Choirs of America
2025 Aloha State Choral Festival
O'ahu, Hawai'i
March 15, 2025
April 4, 2025
Festival Director: Jace Saplan
Sing and Learn in Paradise
O'ahu, Hawai'i
Choirs of America, in collaboration with our esteemed Festival Director, Dr. Jace Kaholokula Saplan, is excited to announce the 2025 Nā Leo ‘O Hawai’i (Voices of Hawai'i) festival event. Also known as the Aloha State Choral Festival + Tour, this unique and educational festival welcomes choirs from all over the nation and the globe.
The festival focuses on fostering cultural connections and appreciation, and offers participating choirs an opportunity to participate in adjudicated performances and workshops led by some of the most renowned clinicians in the country. We are thrilled to invite you and your choir to immerse in and celebrate the rich musical traditions and cultures of Hawai’i, Polynesia, and the extensive Pacific Rim with us in spring, 2025.
The day also features ‘Ohana Exchanges (during which different choirs perform for each other), imbedded and immersive cultural experiences unique to Hawai’i, and the premiere of E Himeni Kakou (Let's Sing Together), a mass choir program for all participants in which singers come together to learn, sing, and perform new and traditional choral works that honor the cultures of Hawai’i, Polynesia, and the Pacific Rim!
Bring your entire choral program, and... E himeni pū me mākou ma Hawai’i hoʻohiwahiwa (sing together with us in enchanting Hawai'i)!
Meet Your Teaching Artists.
Festival Inclusions
Festival Highlights...
- Festival Director: Dr. Jace Saplan, Director of Choral Activities, Arizona State University (formerly, DCA at University of Hawai'i)
- Massed & Individual Choir Performances
- Adjudicated Performances (criterion-referenced adjudication standards)... click here for our rubric
- Full, Extended Clinics with COA’s Teaching Artists
- All Choir Premiere from COA’s Composer-in-Residence
- ‘Ohana Exchanges | Sing for Other Participating Choirs… and Vice-Versa
- E Himeni Kakou | Hawaiian Music & Cultural Immersion | Led by Dr. Saplan
Festival Details...
In addition to the Festival Highlights listed above, you and your ensemble will also benefit from:
- Observation opportunities (watch other groups perform)
- Written comments and adjudication (or comments only) form
- Immersive cultural and historical opportunities
- Amazing, historically significant performance venues
- World-class teaching artists
- Memories to last a lifetime!
Dr. Jace Saplan
Harmony Tours
Sample Itinerary
Day Three
- Inclusive Group Breakfast
- Narrated Windward Side Bus Tour with visit to Nu'uanu Pali Lookout and Secret Island Beach (Kualoa Ranch)
- Visit Polynesian Cultural Center
- Inclusive Group Dinner
Day Five
- Inclusive Group Breakfast
- Travel Home
Day Two
- Inclusive Group Breakfast
- Community Service on the Beach: Surfrider Foundation
- Visit Pearl Harbor (USS Arizona and USS Missouri Memorials)
- Inclusive
Group Dinner
Day Four
- Inclusive Group Breakfast
- Participate in the Aloha State Choral Festival
- Free time to explore Waikiki Beach
- Luau Dinner Celebration
Customize Your Tour
We have a ton of other ideas and options. Contact us to create and customize the perfect tour itinerary for you and your group!
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