Byron Yasui
Carlos Barbosa Lima was born in 1944 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He began studying the guitar at seven years of age. Five years later,
Mr. Barbosa Lima made his concert debut in his native city and in Rio de Janeiro. He began recording while still in his teens and continued to appear regularly in concert on Brazilian television. His early studies were with Isaias Savio, who is considered,
the father of the modern Brazilian guitar movement, and later with the legendary Andres Segovia.
Since his US debut in 1967, he has enjoyed a global concert career in which the public and music critics are united
in acclaiming him one of the world’s leading masters of the guitar.
Mr. Barbosa Lima is widely recognized for his extraordinary skills as a performer and as an arranger of a wide variety of music
from Scarlatti to Debussy, from Gershwin to Jobim and Brubeck and those in between. His inspired performances
have catapulted him onto the world stage.
This season, Carlos Barbosa Lima brings with him the grand virtuosity of Byron Yasui,
guitarist extraordinaire and ukulele virtuoso, whose own arrangements and compositions will be featured in the program.
Byron Yasui
Byron Yasui has been on the composition/theory faculty at the University of Hawaii from 1972 - August, 2010.
His original compositions have been performed (and recorded) internationally, at venues including the Ambassador Auditorium
in Los Angeles and multiple performances at Carnegie Hall, the Weill Recital Hall, and the Purcell Room
at London’s Royal Festival Hall. He has received the ASCAP Standard Award for Serious Music Composing each year since 1985.
He remains active as a performer on three instruments: double bass (jazz bass since 1960) and part time section bassist
with the Honolulu Symphony (from 1963 to 2009), classical guitar, as a duo partner
with the Brazilian virtuoso Carlos Barbosa-Lima since 1987, and concert ‘ukulele, and as a soloist since 1998.
For years now, a number of Yasui’s guitar solos have been on Barbosa-Lima’s world concert tour programs:
Fantasy on a Hawaiian Lullabye, Piccola Arietta No. 2, Romance, and his arrangements of popular songs.
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