Timothy Carney, Music Director

Timothy Carney is the founding Music Director of Hawai'i Vocal Arts Ensemble, formed in 1992. He is Associate Professor of Music at Chaminade University of Honolulu where he teaches music history, musical theatre, and conducts the Chaminade Chorus. He is Past-President of the Hawai'i State Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. 

Dr. Carney began his conducting career in Paris, where he conducted La chorale américaine de Paris. He has since led choruses across the United States, as well as in Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and France. He conducted the first Hawai'i performance of many choral masterworks, including Handel's Solomon, Hermann Suter's oratorio Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi, Arvo Pärt's Berliner Messe, Haydn's Harmoniemesse, Dvorak's Te Deum, Vaughan Williams'  Dona nobis pacem, and Otto Olsson's Te Deum. He has prepared choruses for such noted conductors as Robert Shaw, Robert Page, Skitch Henderson, Samuel Wong, and Joseph Flummerfelt. As Artistic Director of the Hawai'i International Choral Festival, he led performances of Haydn's Creation, the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, and Mendelssohn's Elijah, with singers and instrumentalists from around the world.

In recognition of his services to sacred music, Dr. Carney was made a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Pope John Paul II. Dr. Carney has 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.