Dominick Farinacci Recently credited the title, "Global Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center" by Wynton Marsalis, Cleveland-native trumpeter and international jazz sensation returns to NE Ohio with quintet for BLU debut! Featuring Dominick Farinacci, Richard Johnson, Barry Stephenson, Lawrence Leathers, Jamey Haddad & Gregory Generet.

Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci has been recently credited the title Global Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center by Wynton Marsalis, working to further integrate jazz into communities around the world. He graduated from The Juilliard School in 2005 launching his career in Japan with a prolific run of eight albums, later releasing two more globally, touring with his band around the world. Music icon Quincy Jones says of Dominick’s accomplishments “This kid is 360 degrees!” and he is a recipient of the International New Star Award.
 
Dominick has been successful in his personal endeavors on bringing the art of jazz into the community. He is a featured performer for the Cleveland Clinic in both Ohio and Abu Dhabi, taking part in the first jazz performance for patients in Abu Dhabi in collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic and the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation. For Dominick, music and health go hand in hand, most recently organizing panel discussions around patient-doctor communication through music with Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. He has also been invited by TED MED to do a TED talk September 2014 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
 

“This kid is 360 degrees!”
Quincy Jones

 
Dominick has been a leading advocate in music education development, most recently featured at the 2014 Community College Association of America in D.C. He served as Music Consultant to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, and initially launched a music education program at the Tommy LiPuma Center for the Arts in Cleveland, Ohio, which brought together 30+ international artists involving over 3,000 students. This successful initiative has since expanded to the GCC, in schools such as Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar Music Academy, the American School of Doha among others.
 
Whether through touring concerts, recording, music education development or in music and healthcare projects, Dominick gives back the gift of music to the community. He created a campaign which collected over 3,000 toys for areas affected by Hurricane Sandy called “a Trumpet, a Truck and our Toys for Tots,” partnering with the US Marines and Archdiocese of New York. He has been a featured musician working alongside supermodel Petra Nemcova for the Happy Hearts Foundation; a non-profit foundation dedicated to rebuilding schools and restoring hope and opportunity in the lives of children after natural disasters.
 
Dominick is a unique artist who aspires to bring jazz to diverse corners of the world. Don’t miss your chance to hear him on a rare return appearance to the States as he brings his quintet to the Rubber City for their BLU debut! Featuring Dominick Farinacci (trumpet), Richard Johnson (piano), Barry Stephenson (bass), Lawrence Leathers (drums), Jamey Haddad (percussion), & Gregory Generet (vocals).
 

About Dominick Farinacci

Recently featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, and at the Amy Winehouse Inspiration Awards, Dominick Farinacci has garnered critical acclaim around the globe. Upon the release of his U.S. debut CD, Lovers, Tales and Dances, the great Quincy Jones stopped by the hip Los Angeles club Vibrato to check out a show by the now 30-year-old trumpeter. Farinacci had recorded an obscure Q composition, “The Theme from the Pawnbroker.” Jones’ classic response: “This kid is 360 degrees!”—a reference to the cosmopolitan, culturally expansive range of American and world music influences Farinacci brings to his own music.
 
Over the years, Farinacci has won numerous awards that speak to his wide rangingimpact and appeal: the International New Star Award (along with Diana Krall and Christian McBride) and Disney New Star Award. He was also invited to perform at the O2 in London, opening for Jamie Cullum and Jeff Beck. In January 2012, he was featured on an hour-long segment of NPR’s “Jazz Rising Stars.” Launching his recording career overseas with an incredibly prolific run of six albums from 2003-2007 on Japan’s Pony Canyon/M&I Records, the NYC based artist blossomed with the full throttle eclectic approach he took to Lovers, Tales and Dances, the first jazz recording produced by legendary three time Grammy winning pop/rock producer Russ Titelman (formerly with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, James Taylor, etc…)
 
Dominick was personally invited by music legend Wynton Marsalis to headline the newly established Jazz At Lincoln Center Doha in Doha, Qatar. Since then, he has been invited to return for a one-month residency later this year. He is the creator and Artistic Director for a youth outreach program in his hometown of Cleveland, at the Tommy Lipuma Creative Center for the Arts. This unique community program has reached over 5,000 kids in the past year.
 
Between Cleveland and NYC (where he lives), Dominick initiated a toy-drive campaign to help children devastated by Hurricane Sandy, partnering with the US Marine Toys for Tots. Together they and raised over 3,000 toys which were delivered to kids in affected areas around the Holidays.
 
He also serves as an artistic consultant to the newly established Amy Winehouse Foundation.

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