Approaches to Authenticating Native Hawaiian Music for Wind Ensemble
Clinic Synopsis:
"E Ala E: Arise and Awaken" is a significant 3-movement work for band based on Native Hawaiian chant and folk songs. The Eddie Kamae Songbook is also a Hawai'i-based commissioning project that brought together UH West O'ahu, the Hawaiian Legacy Foundation, and the Naulu Winds. This brought to life four of Kamae’s songs to help perpetuate authentic Hawaiian music for bands. We will highlight our methodology of creating indigenous music through the collaboration between commissioners and composers.
Rickey Badua
- Biographical Information
Rickey Hauoli Badua is the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA. He conducts the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds, teaches beginning and instrumental conducting, and oversees all aspects of the wind studies program.
Dr. Badua is active as a conference lecturer throughout the U.S. and abroad, having presented at The Midwest Clinic International Band & Orchestra Conference, Oxford Conducting Institute, International Society for Research & Promotion of Wind Music, College Band Directors National Conference, California All-State Music Educators Conference, Southern California School Band & Orchestra Association Conference, Georgia Music Educators Association Conference, and the National Association for Music Education-Northwest Division Conference. Notable conducting achievements include the Cal Poly Pomona University Wind Ensemble’s featured performance at the 2024 Western/Northwestern College Band Directors National Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Additionally, he has conducted the Southern California Schools Symphonic Honor Band, and the Washington All-State Wind Symphony.
Dr. Badua earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting degree from the University of Georgia, where he studied with John Lynch and earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree from the University of Puget Sound and received an honorary fellowship to then complete his Master of Arts in Teaching degree as a conducting student of Robert Taylor.
James David - Biographical Information
Dr. James M. David (b. 1978) is a leading American composer
for winds and percussion and professor of music at Colorado State University.
His works have been performed at over eighty national and international music
conferences throughout the world. Awards and recognition include the 2025 CBDNA
Fennell Prize, the 2022 NBA Revelli Award, three-time finalist for the ABA
Ostwald Award, an ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and election to the American
Bandmasters Association. Previous commissions and collaborations include works
for the US Air Force, Army, and Navy Bands, the Dallas Winds, the Osaka Shion
Wind Orchestra, Joseph Alessi (NY Philharmonic), John Bruce Yeh (Chicago
Symphony), James Markey (Boston Symphony), and hundreds of university music
faculty and ensembles. His works are represented on over twenty commercially
released recordings on the Naxos, Summit, Mark, Albany, Parma, MSR Classics,
GIA Windworks, and Luminescence labels and are published by Murphy Music Press,
C. Alan Publications, Potenza Publishing, and Excelcia Music. A native of
southern Georgia (USA), his music is influenced by jazz and other southern
traditional music combined with contemporary idioms. More information at www.jamesmdavid.com.
Chadwick Kamei - Biographical Information
Chadwick Kamei is the Director of Bands, Fine Arts Department Head, and Music Learning Center Coordinator at Pearl City High School in Hawaii. He is also the director of the Naulu Winds of the University of Hawaii West Oahu, which is a community-based ensemble. Under his direction, the Naulu Winds performed at the 2024 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, a first for a Hawaii community band. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University and received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Music Education from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Dr. Kamei is a Conn Selmer Educational Clinician and has adjudicated/guest conducted at various festivals around the nation. He is currently a member of the Revelli Composition Committee and IDEA committee for the National Band Association. Dr. Kamei is a Legion Laureate of the John Philip Sousa Legion of Honor and in 2016 was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association.
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