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The Hawai`i Vocal Masterworks Festival

This unique annual event joins singers and instrumentalists from across the state for a week-long music festival. The objective of this program is to enhance our communal quality of life through advanced musical education, appreciation and performance of significant choral-orchestral masterworks.

Instrumental students are accepted into the Festival based on the recommendation of their private or school instructors, attesting to their ability to learn the large amount of music required in a short period of time. Community singers are accepted into the Festival Chorus following a brief audition with the Music Director, testing tone, clarity, and ability to read music.

Joining HVAE the week before performance, students rehearse with visiting musicians from the Honolulu Symphony. During these final intense evening rehearsals, we blend all musical and aesthetic elements to refine our combined performance to HVAE standards. The culmination of the Hawai'i Vocal Masterworks Festival is two grand live performances of the selected masterwork.

"It was such a privilege to get to participate in the festival – and the music is truly unforgettable! Thank you so very much!" -- Festival participant             "One of the best choirs that I had the privilege to sing with in a long time." -- 2005 Festival participant             "A little extra [donation] – moved by the outstanding Festival Concert!"-- Festival supporter

Past Festivals

Fifth Annual

Ralph Vaughan Williams

"The performances are crisp, harmonic, seductive—in a traditional no frills manner."
-- Wayne Harada, Honolulu Advertiser

Fourth Annual

Fourth Annual Hawaii Vocal Masterworks Festival

Fourth Annual Hawai'i Vocal Masterworks Festival
featuring Joseph Haydn's jubilant and sublime HARMONIEMESSE and
Johannes Brahms' Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)

Third Annual

ArtJoin us for the Hawai`i premiere of Robert Schumann's rare and sumptuous oratorio, Das Paradies Und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri). Based on a Persian legend, Schumann considered it his finest work. Featuring internationally acclaimed soprano Valerie Girard, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane , tenor Everett McCorvey , and baritone, Leslie "Buz" Tennent. Hawai'i Vocal Arts Ensemble will be joined by singers and instrumentalists from across the state to perform this masterwork for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, containing
soaring melodies and thrilling harmonies.

 

 

June 25, 2006, 4:00 pm at Hawai`i Theatre