BY AUDREY COLEMAN | FROM THE SUMMER 2019 ISSUE OF UKULELE “Right now, 99 percent of the world thinks of the ukulele as a novelty instrument. I want to change that,” declares Byron Yasui. “With Mika, I started doing that. With the Concerto, I started doing that.” In 2018, Yasui’s student Mika Kane played the … Continue reading The Ukulele Can Be Anything to Byron Yasui, A Composer and Professor Who has Spent a Lifetime Raising the Bar