Summer jazz concert features legendary trumpeter

One of America's leading trumpet performers and teachers, Vincent DiMartino, will perform a recital on July 24, at 7 p.m. in the Sherman Van Solkema Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, Allendale Campus. Admission to the concert is free. DiMartino will be the special guest artist in the Second Annual Trumpet Seminar held at Grand Valley.

Vincent DiMartino is the Matton Professor of Music at Centre College. He has performed worldwide as a soloist and with artists such as Henry Mancini, Doc Severinson, Pearl Bailey, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck. Widely acclaimed for classical and jazz playing, he has also in recent years begun to specialize in cornet solos.

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. DiMartino is a Yamaha Distinguished Performing Artist.

For more information on this concert and the Grand Valley Trumpet Seminar, please call the Department of Music at (616) 331-3484 or visit www.gvsu.edu/music.