Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci demonstrates jazz trumpet techniques to over 300 Talbot County public school students at the Avalon Theater to kick off the Monty Alexander Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend. (Photo courtesy of Jerry Michael)
On Friday night of Labor Day weekend, trumpet player Dominick Farinacci kicked off this year’s Monty Alexander Jazz Festival, presented by Jazz on the Chesapeake, a program of Chesapeake Chamber Music. Before he opened at the Avalon Theatre, however, Farinacci shared his extraordinary trumpet playing with over 300 St. Michaels and Easton high school and middle school students. The YouthReach concert was part of Chesapeake Chamber Music’s community outreach programs offered throughout the year.
Farinacci’s horn recalls early Miles Davis and Chet Baker, among other trumpet greats. Dominick was recently featured on NPR’s Jazz Rising Stars and recognized by The New York Times as “having the prepossessing charm and lyrical instinct of a jazz pop-star.”
Farinacci gave the students an inside look at jazz and playing as a professional. As part of his presentation, he invited two students from the audience onto the Avalon stage to experience performing jazz. Will Mann of Easton Middle School scatted back and forth with Farinacci on his saxophone, while vocalist Julianne Mason of Easton High School mesmerized the audience with a Norah Jones tune, accompanied by Farinacci’s piano player, Orrin Evans.
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