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.
James David - Biographical Information
Dr. James M. David (b. 1978) is an American composer who currently serves as professor of music at Colorado State University. His works have been performed at over sixty national and international music conferences in North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. He has received national and international awards from ASCAP, the National Band Association, the Music Teachers National Association, and the National Association of Composers, USA among others. Previous commissions and collaborations include works for the Des Moines Symphony, the US Air Force Band, the US Army Band, the Dallas Winds, the Fort Collins Symphony, 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 Excelsia 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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