The WLU Concert Artist Series welcomes Vince DiMartino as part of the 2012 TRI-STATE SELECT HONOR JAZZ ENSEMBLE FESTIVAL. Click for details.
Vince DiMartino, jazz trumpet
Friday, March 30 2012
8pm, Elbin Auditorium, College Hall
Part of the Tri-State Select Honor Jazz Ensemble Festival
Vince DiMartino is one of our country’s most sought after trumpet performers and educators. Since graduating from The Eastman School of Music in 1972, professor DiMartino had taught at the University of Kentucky until 1993. At that time, Mr. DiMartino began a new appointment as Distinguished Artist in residence at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. There he teaches trumpet, brass and jazz ensembles, and jazz history. He has served as the Music Chair and is currently coordinator of the Centre College Instrumental Program. He is distinguished Matton Professor of Music at Centre College and also Distinguished Valade Professor of Trumpet at The Interlochen Center for the Arts each summer. In 2008, he received The Governor’s Artist Award in Kentucky. Vince DiMartino is equally known as a jazz artist. He has been the lead and solo trumpet in the Lionel Hampton Band, the Chuck Mangione Band, the Clark Terry Band and The Eastman Arranger’s Holiday Orchestra. He has also performed with some of this country’s finest college jazz ensembles. Vince had been a member of the artist-faculty of the highly acclaimed Skidmore Jazz Institute from its inception in 1988 to 2001 working with fellow artist-teachers Milt Hinton, Todd Coolman, Ed Shaughnessy, Frank Mantooth, Curtis Fuller, Dick Oatts and Pat LaBarbera.