Dominick Farinacci was born on March 3,1983 and is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and big band leader.
20 Facts About Dominick Farinacci
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Dominick Farinacci is currently signed to the Mack Avenue label.
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Dominick Farinacci has won the "International New Star Award", Disney's "New Star Award", and topped the charts as one of Japan's No 1 jazz musicians.
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Dominick Farinacci is from Cleveland, Ohio, and began playing trumpet in sixth grade at age eleven in Solon, Ohio.
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Dominick Farinacci joined a Saturday music program at Tri-C Community College in Cleveland, which taught him more about playing in big bands, small groups, improvisation, and music theory.
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Dominick Farinacci put a band together with some of his friends and mentors in Cleveland and began dropping off demo recordings to local club owners.
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Soon, Dominick Farinacci was working five to six nights a week in the local jazz clubs with his own group, and as a sideman with some of the older musicians in town.
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Dominick Farinacci auditioned for the High School Grammy Awards All-Star Big Band in California, and was accepted.
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Dominick Farinacci was selected to participate in this band for three consecutive years.
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Dominick Farinacci attended the Berklee College of Music Summer Jazz Program, and was offered a full-tuition scholarship to attend Berklee after he graduated from high school.
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Dominick Farinacci was selected to perform with the Monterey High School All-star Big Band on a summer tour throughout Japan in 1999.
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At 17, Dominick Farinacci performed at the Tri-C Jazzfest in Cleveland, opening for Wynton Marsalis and his big band.
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Around this time, Dominick Farinacci received a scholarship to the Juilliard School for its first Jazz Program.
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In 2006 Dominick Farinacci was featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on Dee Dee Bridgewater's JazzSet for NPR, as well as at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival.
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Dominick Farinacci was a member of Miles to Miles, a band led by Jason Miles, and was featured on recordings Miles produced: What's Going On: A Tribute to Marvin Gaye, and 2 Grover With Love: A Tribute to Grover Washington Jr.
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Dominick Farinacci performed and recorded with saxophonist Joe Lovano in 2007.
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In 2008 Dominick Farinacci debuted his own band at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Detroit International Jazz Festival, and the Tri-C JazzFest.
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Dominick Farinacci toured Korea and Japan with a Juilliard faculty and alumni quintet, and signed his first major US recording contract with Koch Records.
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Dominick Farinacci has opened for British rock stars Jamie Cullum and Jeff Beck at the O2 in London, and has performed at Severance Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra.
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Dominick Farinacci received Gold Disc awards for two Japanese recordings from Swing Journal magazine: Say It and Besame Mucho.