Stacey Mailelauli’i Naki - Asst. Director

Mailelauli’i is an Assistant Director with Hawai’i Youth Opera Chorus and has been part of the organization since 1994. She is a graduate of ’Aiea High School and has a B.A. in Hawaiian Studies emphasis in Ancient Culture and a P.D. in Elementary Education. She currently directs the Angeli ensemble and team teaches one of the Bambini ensembles. A former Hawaiian Immersion Teacher at Pu’ohala Elementary, Mailelauli’i continues to make a difference in the public schools as the Music Educator at ’Aiea Elementary. She is also on the Board of Directors for ’Ohi’a Productions, a non-profit Family Entertainment Production Company, dances hula with Noenoelani Zuttermeister, sings with the Honolulu Symphony Chorus and writes Hawaiian Poetry and Lyrics for songs not only performed locally but around the world.

Beth Uale - Asst. Director

Beth Uale was born in Glendale, California and raised in Pasadena. She moved to Hawaii after high school to attend college and received her Bachelors degree in Music from BYU Hawaii in 1985. She continued her educational pursuits and earned her Professional Diploma in Secondary Music Education from the University of Hawaii in December of 1996, and her MA in Music Education from the University of Hawaii in August of 1999. She began teaching private piano lessons in 1985 and has been teaching private piano and vocal lessons since that time. She has worked at various private and public schools in Hawaii teaching music for the past 13 years.

Currently she is the music specialist and teacher at a Hawaiian Charter School “Ka Waihona O Ka Naauao” in Nanakuli. She has been an assistant director for the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus since 1997 and directs the Coro ensemble for grades 4-8.

Beth serves as Immediate Past President on the board of the American Choral Directors Association, Hawaii chapter and as President Elect on the executive board for the Hawaii Music Educators Association. She is also serving as President of the Young Womens Association for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Hawaii Kai Ward, and as the director of the Honolulu Stake. She was mother of the year for the state of Hawaii in 2003.