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Curriculum Vitae

Kamaka Pahinui

djkamakaflower (at) gmail (dot) com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Services & World Class Specialties

 

*Creative Consultation & Design  

*Pageantry & Artistic Event Coordination  

*Music and Dance Education

Digital Multi-Media specialist with an emphasis on Educational Content Creation

 

- 10 years teaching marching band, drum corps, color guard & percussion

- 7 drum corps tours + 3 years touring with a Broadway show

- 15+ years promoting and producing small music events  -  music/dj services/artist support

Specialties:

Audio Production - MIDI, Mixing, Editing, Sound Design, Electronica Soundtracks, Dance Performance edits

Songwriting / Original Composition / Arrangements / Remixes / Remakes 

Instruments - Marching & Orchestral Percussion, 4 Mallets, Tenor Steel Drum, Snare Drum, Piano, Vocals, Music Theory

Movement Meditation Facilitation - DJ ((House, Techno, World Beat, Down Tempo, Ambient, Chill Out

Dance))

 

Contemporary Ballet/Modern Dance, Afro Latin Dance, Burlesque/Gogo Dance

 

Colorguard - Flag & Sabre, Show Design

 

Beginning Floor Pilates, Beginning Hatha Yoga

Tutoring and home schooling:

Tutoring available for all K-12 subjects. (non-calculus). ~ also beginning accounting, intellectual property rights, mac and pc literacy, some sports, light homemaking-life skills (cooking, sewing, renovations, gardening, pet care).

*currently in school for an AA in Early Childhood Education

Administrative & Office Management:

type 50 wpm - MAC and PC proficient, Microsoft Office - (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mail), Appleworks - (Pages, Numbers, Keynote), Google Drive

 

Multimedia:

Audio Engineering - Logic, Digital Performer, Reason, more +

Graphic Design - Canva Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Gimp 

Video - InShot, more, Adobe Creative Commons +

Other - Wix, iMovie, Garageband, Logic

OTHER:

I have years experience caring for all kinds of pets including ~ 

Rabbits, Dogs, Cats, Reptiles, Birds, Rodents, Rabbits, Monkeys

 

Teaching & Design Experience

Dance / Colorguard

 

2004-2005 Dedham High School, Dedham, MA 

Assitant Winterguard Instructor 

Supervisor: Tara Morrissy

 

2003 Kamehameha High School, Honolulu, HI

Assistant Colorguard Instructor (Summer)

Supervisor: John Riggle

 

2000 Oracle Winterguard, Denver, CO

Assistant Winterguard Instructor 

WGI Independent Open Class (Finalist)

Supervisor: Rob Billings

 

1998 - 2000 Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps Denver, CO

Assistant Colorguard Instructor, Movement Tech

Responsible for 120+ students ages 14-22

 

1997-1998 Northside High School, Lafayette, LA

Colorguard Director

45+ students. 3 Ensembles. In one season brought the team from the bottom 3 to top 3 in their WGI region.

 

1995-1996 Coronado High School, Scottsdale, AZ

Winterguard Instructor

Supervisor: Jon Gomez

 

 

 

 

Teaching & Music Arranging Experience Percussion

 

2016 - 2017 Adams Elementary School, Seattle, WA

Afterschool Lead Percussion Teacher

 

2016 - 2017 Queen Anne Elementary School, Seattle, WA

Afterschool Lead Percussion Teacher

 

1999 Mansfield High School, Mansfield, MA

Assistant Marching Pit Instructor

 

1996-1997 Chandler High School, Chandler, AZ

Percussion Instructor, Arranger

Marching Pit & Mallet Instruction

Supervisor: Doug Ward

 

1995-1996 Coronado High School, Scottsdale, AZ

Percussion Instructor, Arranger

Marching Pit, Percussion Ensemble

Supervisor: Jon Gomez

 

Broadway Performance Experience

 

2001-2003 Blast! The Show, North America

2001 Tony and Emmy award winning show

Disneyland's California Adventure / Epcot / 2 North America Tours

Visusl Ensemble / Colorguard (Lead Female understudy / female chorus swing)

Snare Line (Rack)

Keyboard

Percussion

Steel Drum Solo (Understudy)

Drumline Performance Experience

 

 

1994 - 1995 Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps, Denver, CO

Mallet Percussion

Instructors: Ralph Hardimon,

Stephen Ridley

 

1997 UNLV, Las Vegas, NV

Snare Drum

WGI Indoor Drumline

Instuctor: Brian Mason

 

1996 Arizona Sun, Phoenix, AZ

Bass Drum

Performance Drumline

Instructor: Todd Foster

 

1995 - 1996 Arizona State Universty, Tempe, AZ

Snare Drum

Marching Band and Indoor Drumline

Instuctor: Rich Hinshaw, Bill Meldrum

 

1991-1995 Coronado High School

Mallet Percussion, Tenors, Snare Drum

Drumline Section Leader

Instructors: Stephen Ridley, Shawn Reidy

 

Colorguard Performance 

 

2004 Blessed Sacrament Colorguard

Cambridge, MA

soloist / sabre

 

1999 & 2001 Emerald Marquis Winterguard

Wakefield, MA

1999 WGI World Champions 

dance soloist / sabre

Director: Dale Powers

 

1996 - 1998 Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps

Denver, CO

sabre / soloist

Instructors: Rob Billings, KC Perkins

 

1996 - Anozira Winterguard, Tempe, AZ

WGI A Class, Director: Joyce Loughrige

 

1995 - Coronado High School, Scottsdale, AZ

Band Director: John Gomez

 

Orchestral Percussion

 

2016 - 2017 University of Washington 

Steel Drum Band, Seattle, WA

 

2016 University of Washington Concert Band

Seattle, WA

 

2016 - 2017 Around The Sound Community 

Concert Band, Seattle, WA

 

2016 Seattle Symphonic Band, Seattle, WA

NSCC, Director: Michael James

 

1995 - 1996 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Symphonic Band, Percussion Ensemble

Professor: JB Smith

 

1991-1995 Coronado High School, Scottdale, AZ

Concert Band, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz (Piano)

Director: John Gomez

 

1992-1995 Arizona All State High School Concert Band, Percussion

Recording Contracts

 

2003 Mountain Apple Co, Honolulu, HI

#1 Billboard label for World Music

Executive Producer: Jon De Mello

 

2009 Ready Mix Records, Montreal, Quebec

Director: Big Al

 

2011 Baroque Records, United Kingdom

Director: Keith McDonnell

 

2012 GrooveCollection Records, Netherlands

Founder: Jerry Van Schie

 

2013 Viva Recordings, Seattle, WA

 

2014 Mile End Records, Montreal, Quebec

 

World Class DJ Residencies

2020 - Current: Soulgasm, Hawaii
2018 - 2020 Zodiac, Centered, Asylum, Ong King, Next Door, Bar 35.

2014 - 2015 Viva Recordings Seattle (Monkey Loft)

2013 - 2015 Re-bar Seattle (Hostess and DJ)

2010 - 2013 Love Company, Tucson, AZ

2009 - 2010 Circus Afterhours, Montreal (DJ Mag top 100)

2005 - 2010 Cherry, Koko, Soultek - Montreal

Dance Residencies

 

2008 - Diverscite Pride closing performance and dance soloist with singer Kim Richardson

 

2004 - 2008 Stereo Afterhours Resident Dancer

Dancer & Promoter for Grammy winner David Morales

Fuego Hostess with DJ XL

 

2004 - Avalon, Matrix, Roxy - Boston, MA

 

 

Awards

1999 Emerald Marquis Winterguard

World Champions

 

1995 Full Ride Scholarship ASU

Orchestral Percussion Performance

 

1995 Voted Most Talented of HS Graduating Class

1995 Senior Math Award

Coronado High School

 

1991 Supai Middle School Highest Math Grade

Independent Study & Research Topics

 

La'au Lapa'au

Plant Medine

Energy Medicine

 Neuroacoustics

Geometry and the Mathematics of Music

Medical Ethnomusicology

Indigenous Sound Healing, Chanting & Mantras

Music Therapy

Brainwave Entrainment

Bi-Neural Beats

PowWow

Movement & Dance Meditation

Hynotherapy

 

 

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