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Dennis Kamakahi began his serious study of music while attending Aliamanu Intermediate School studying music theory and learning to play the trombone with the school band under the direction of Mr. William Kaneda. At the age of 14, he entered the Kamehameha Schools as a freshman and continued his study of music theory, band arranging, and composition under the guidance of Mr. David Lorch and, after 4 years with the high school band, became the band's drum major in his senior year. It was at the Kamehameha Schools that he became friends with two fellow classmates who would themselves become Hawaii's exponents of Hawaiian Music and Culture, Dr. Kalena Silva, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the UH Hilo Campus and former Royal Hawaiian Bandmaster Aaron Mahi. It would be while attending the Kamehameha Schools that these three friends would set the course of the future of Hawaiian Music.

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