ANA ʻAha Mele 2026 event in Honolulu

ANA will be holding the ANA ʻAha Mele music and cultural exchange event in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, on November 24 - 25, 2026. This initiative, which began in 2019, was renewed as "ANA ʻAha Mele", meaning “concert” in Hawaiian in 2022. We are proud to celebrate our 6th anniversary this year. ANA hopes to continue to foster connections with the people of Hawaii through music and to continue protecting the region's culture and environment. Together with our contributions toward increasing the number of non-resident cultural visitors through flights between Japan and Honolulu with the world's largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380 FLYING HONU, we are also working on environmental conservation initiatives such as the preservation of Hawaiian culture, and tree planting.

Tuesday, November 24 - Wednesday, November 25, 2026

Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A

Following on from last year's event, we are hosting our second concert at Blue Note Hawaii! You can enjoy the immersive performances by Mr. Tsujii and Mr. Miura.

Last year's concert

Debussy:
Claude Achille:Suite bergamasque "Clair de lune"
Maurice Ravel:
Pavane for a Dead Princess
Jeux d'eau
Kapustin:
Nikolai Eight Concert Etudes Op.40

César Franck:
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major

Bach:
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" Arranged by Myra Hess
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"
Kapustin:
Nikolai Eight Concert Etudes Op.40

César Franck:
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major

Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor with conductor Klaus Mäkelä and Orchestre de Paris. Makela.
Nobu’s debut Deutsche Grammophon album in 2024 featured a Beethoven programme that paired the towering “Hammerklavier” Sonata, op. 106 with Liszt’s transcription of the song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (“To the Distant Beloved”). His previous recordings with Avex Classics International include Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov’s Variations on a theme of Paganini under Vasily Petrenko with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Nobu has also recorded several recital programmes of Chopin, Mozart, Debussy, and Liszt. His latest DVD release was named DVD of the Month by Gramophone, as was his latest DVD release, ‘Touching the Sound - The Improbable Journey of Nobuyuki Tsujii’, a documentary film by Peter Rosen.

Fumiaki Miura is not only the youngest ever winner of the Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition (2009) but also the one with the most prizes - having also been awarded both the Music Critics' and the Audience Prize. The young Japanese violinist is already proving himself to be one of the most accomplished of his generation.
After his successful residency with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, his 22/23 season is highlighted by performances as soloist with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra under the baton of Pinchas Zukerman. Moreover, he has play/conduct projects with ADDA Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Chamber Orchestra. In addition, in chamber music, he will perform in Salle Gaveau (Paris) and will do a tour in Europe and Japan.Miura performs on the Guarneri del Gesu 1732 violin "Kaston" kindly loaned by Crystco Inc. and its CEO, Mr. Hikaru Shimura.

ANA Group employees will plant trees in cooperation with the Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative. Native Hawaiian species, such as the Milo trees, that is used to make ukuleles will be planted.
Actual results from 2022-2025: Total 1,040 trees planted

Not open to the general public

Since 2019, ANA has supported the Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative in Honolulu. We welcome your support towards our initiative, please refer to the website below for more details.