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| Vincent DiMartino isthe Matton Professor of Music at Centre College. One of America's leading trumpet performers and teachers, DiMartino originally joined the college in 1993 as Centre's first distinguished artist-in-residence. He was named to the Matton Professorship in 1996.
DiMartino has performed worldwide as a soloist and with artists such as Henry Mancini, Doc Severinsen, Pearl Bailey, Dizzy Gillespie and Dave Brubeck. Widely admired for classical and jazz playing, he has also in recent years begun to specialize in virtuoso cornet solos. DiMartino, along with Centre's George Foreman, founded the New Columbian Brass Band. DiMartino also is a soloist with the New Sousa Band and is a featured soloist with the Advocate Brass Band. DiMartino is a popular performer at the Great American Brass Band Festival, which annually draws 40,000 people to Danville for outstanding brass music. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music (B.M. and M.M. degrees), DiMartino was for some twenty years the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kentucky. He has performed as a soloist with many symphony orchestras, including those in Cincinnati, Buffalo, Santa Fe, Orlando and Rochester. He is prominently featured in many recordings of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
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