Hawai'i Vocal Arts Ensemble
Hawai‘i Vocal Arts Ensemble is known for its tonal beauty and imaginative programming. Now in our Thirty-first Season, we sing a wide repertoire, from Renaissance sacred music, sacred classical and romantic music, romantic part songs and motets, to folksongs, contemporary music, and popular standards. HVAE is pleased to serve as the resident chorus for the Hawai‘i Vocal Masterworks Festival, presenting a major work for chorus and orchestra each year with professional orchestra and world-class soloists.
Timothy Carney, Artistic Director
Timothy Carney, founding Music Director of Hawai‘i Vocal Arts Ensemble, was Associate Professor of Music at Chaminade University for twenty-three years. He has led choruses across the United States, France, England, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand, and given the first Hawai‘i performances of masterworks including Schumann’s Paradise and the Peri, Hermann Suter’s Le Laudi di San Francesco d’Assisi, and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem.
Dr. Carney prepared choruses for Robert Shaw, Roger Wagner, and Robert Page, and has conducted the Requiems of Mozart, Brahms, Verdi, Cherubini, Fauré, and Duruflé, as well as Haydn’s Creation and Masses and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
At Chaminade, he served as music director for dozens of musicals, including Pippin, Fiddler on the Roof, Brigadoon, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Little Shop of Horrors. He taught at St. Olaf College, Ripon College, the University of Illinois, and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He holds degrees from Hamilton College, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Illinois. A Laureate of the Hawai‘i Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters, he has led the Hawai‘i Masterworks Chorus on tours of Australia, Ireland, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Most recently, he gave a series of choral workshops in the south of France.