Other professional affiliations include the Paul Rolland String Pedagogy Society, Suzuki Association of the Americas, Music Teachers National Association, National Association for Music Education, American Viola Society, and the Hawaii Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Uyehara served as president of the Hawaii chapter of the American String Teachers Association (HASTA), and organized the HASTA Junior Festival Orchestra. He also maintains a private violin and viola studio.įor many years, Mr. In addition to directing orchestras for Moanalua Middle School, he directs orchestras for the Hawaii Youth Symphony and the Pacific Music Institute.

Uyehara also served as interim conductor for the University of Hawaii at Manoa Symphony Orchestra during the 2014-2015 school year. He has taught orchestra for the Clark County School District in Nevada, the Las Vegas Youth Philharmonic, the Hawaii Department of Education at Kalani High School, Kaimuki Middle School, and Moanalua Elementary, Hanahauoli School, and St. He currently performs with the Maui Pops Orchestra, with local music theater companies, and as part of a violin-piano duo. Uyehara has performed on violin and viola with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Desert Springs Chamber Orchestra, and the Honolulu Symphony.

Additional studies include the Brevard Music Center Summer Institute and Festival, the Conductor’s Workshop of America, Mimi Zweig’s Retreat for Violin and Viola Teachers, Suzuki Association of the Americas teacher training, and Paul Rolland String Pedagogy certification. He earned his Bachelor’s of Music in Violin Performance, studying with LaVar Krantz, Bachelor’s of Arts in French, and membership in Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his Master’s of Music in Music Education and Viola Performance from Northwestern University where he studied viola with Roland Vamos. Chad Uyehara is the Orchestra Director at Moanalua Middle School.

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