Dominic Giardino

Historical Ensembles Program Coordinator

Green Machine Ensembles

Email: dgiardi@gmu.edu

Historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino enjoys a varied professional life as a performer, administrator, and public historian. This season Dominic can be heard performing with the orchestras of Opera Lafayette (Washington, D.C.), Boston Baroque (Boston, MA), and the Washington Bach Consort (Washington, D.C.). He appears regularly in chamber music projects with the Raleigh Camerata (Raleigh, NC), Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble (Charlottesville, VA), and Wit’s Folly (Cleveland, OH), and throughout 2024–2025 will be curating music with his ensemble Music of the Regiment (Springfield, VA) for events commemorating the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s 1824–1825 Farewell Tour. Dominic has recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Players (Washington, D.C.), the Bach Choir of Bethlehem Orchestra (Bethlehem, PA), and as a soloist with Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band. An avid researcher of military music in the 18th-century Atlantic World, Dominic will be presenting work on Virginia’s first regimental band in September 2024 at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s annual symposium. He is the executive director of the Tucson-based concert series Arizona Early Music, a music program manager and musician with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and an adjunct instructor in historical clarinets at the University of North Texas. Dominic is a 2016 Fulbright grantee and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.