A pair of violinists with Roosevelt High School’s symphony orchestra will represent Hawaii at Carnegie Hall’s prestigious 2014 Honors Performance Series in New York.
Seniors Jamie Labrador and Sarah Wilson will join more than 500 high school students from across the country for the program, which offers elite musicians an opportunity to rehearse under master conductors and perform before an invited audience of representatives from collegiate and professional music programs. The five-day program is slated to get underway Feb. 5.
Labrador serves as concertmaster in the Roosevelt High Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Gregg Abe. Wilson has been a member of the Hawaii Youth Symphony Orchestra since the sixth grade.
Other recent awards and honors:
>> Friends of the Library of Hawaii has recognized the Librarian of the Year and Excellence in Service award recipient.
The entrants were nominated by patrons and Hawaii State Public Library System staff members.
Christel Collins of the Manoa branch is this year’s Librarian of the Year.
Collins has been in the state library system for 21 years, including in the telephone reference section at the main Hawaii State Library branch as well as children’s and branch librarian at McCully-Moiliili.
Edwin Kamikawa of the Library Development Services Section is the Excellence in Service awardee.
For nearly four decades the illustrator/photographer has created attention-grabbing, high-quality graphics and promotional items for all of the state’s 50 public libraries and administrative offices.
His versatile body of work comes in all forms: business cards, print and digital forms, stationery, silk-screened state library T-shirts, logos, program fliers, newsletters, Web graphics, shelf labels, ceremonial checks, banners, signage and much more. The library card logo, the notable Hawaiian quilt design on library bags, and the Friends of the Library of Hawaii’s logo are examples of his graphic creations.
Collins and Kamikawa will be honored Feb. 21 at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Library of Hawaii, 5:30 p.m. in the courtyard of the Hawaii State Library on the corner of Punchbowl
and King streets.
