Sabato D’Agostino

Sabato D’Agostino

Waltham, MA 02453

Tel. (781) 788-0002
Teaching Experience

2013 Guest lecturer/clinician: “An Easy and Fun Way to Learn How to Improvise,”

Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
2013 JEN, Jazz Education Network

Member of JEN Education Committee

Dallas, Texas
2011 Guest lecturer/clinician: “Basic Improvisation for All Ages,”

Music Educators Conference; World Trade Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Director and conductor: AHS Full Orchestra, Concert Band, Honors Orchestra, Jazz Band, Jazz Octet, Bass Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble

Music theory instructor: Grades 9-12
1999- Present Ottoson Middle School (OMS), Arlington, Massachusetts

Director and conductor: OMS Chamber Orchestra

Berklee Summer Program

Director and conductor: jazz, fusion, and rock ensembles

Instructor: “Theory in Performance”

Lugano, Switzerland

Instructor: jazz improvisation
2008-Present Director and founder: Musica Vesuviana Festival, summer music camp, Salerno, Italy

Instructor: general music, improvisation, ensemble

2008. 
      Guest lecturer/clinician: “The Sense of Groove”
      

Boston, Massachusetts

2007. 
      Guest lecturer/clinician: “Be-Bop on the Electric Bass”
      

Massachusetts Music Educators Conference: World Trade Center,

Boston, Massachusetts

2005. 
      Guest lecturer/clinician: “How to Improve the Rhythm Section”
      

Boston, Massachusetts

99. 
    Mansfield Elementary School: Mansfield, Massachusetts
    

94. 
    Leonardo Da Vinci Elementary School: Salerno, Italy
    

93. 
    Galileo Galilei High School: Salerno, Italy
    

92. 
    Salvatore Quasimodo Junior High School: Avellino, Italy
    

92. 
    Cardile Scuola Comunale: Cardile, Italy
    

Curriculum: music theory, solfege, ear training, traditional and jazz harmony, history of music, ensembles, Italian and jazz standards (repertoire), classical and jazz trumpet, electric bass (jazz, rock)

93. 
    “Boys of Music” School: Salerno, Italy
    

Curriculum: see above

95. 
    Campigliano Scuola Comunale: Campigliano, Italy
    

Curriculum: see above

88. 
    Willy Frank School: Angri, Italy
    

Curriculum: see above

2009-Present Conservatorio Della Svizzera Italiana Orchestra,

Lugano, Switzerland
1999- Present Winter Concert: AHS Full Orchestra, Honors Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Band; Arlington High School, Lowe Auditorium, Arlington, Massachusetts
1999- Present Pops Concert: AHS Full Orchestra, Honors Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Band; Arlington Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
1999- Present All-Town Festival of Bands: AHS Concert Band and Jazz Band; OMS auditorium, Arlington, Massachusetts
1999- Present All-Town String Concert: OMS Chamber Orchestra, AHS Honors Orchestra and Full Orchestra; OMS Auditorium, Arlington, Massachusetts
2000- Present Arlington Town Day, AHS Jazz Band; Arlington, Massachusetts
2000- Present Kidney Transplant Association Concert, AHS Jazz Band; Sons of Italy Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
2003-Present Berklee Summer Program, rock, jazz, and fusion ensembles; Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
2003-Present Director and founder: “Bejazzled,” full-evening jazz concert, AHS Jazz Band and Jazz Band alumni; Lowe Auditorium, Arlington High School, Arlington, Massachusetts
2013 Festa della Repubblica Event

Italian Trade Commission, New York, NY

Algonquin Club, Boston, Massachusetts

2012. 
      Prada Opening Night, in collaboration with the Italian Consulate in New England, AHS Jazz Band; Neiman Marcus, Natick, Massachusetts
      

2011. 
      Festa della Repubblica, at the invitatation of Giuseppe Pastorelli, Consul General of Italy in Boston, AHS Jazz Band; Boston State House, Boston, Massachusetts. In attendance were Mayor Thomas Menino, Governor Deval Patrick, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert DeLeo, and State Senator Anthony Petruccelli.
      

2010 Concert tour of Italy, AHS Jazz Band; Castello Arechi, Salerno; Minori Piazza, Minori; Capo d’Orlando High School, Messina;

Taormina Piazza, Taormina; Instituto Agrario, Pezzolo

2009 Hovhaness Celebration Concert, AHS Honors Orchestra; Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts

2007. 
      Newburgh High School, Newburgh, NY; AHS Full Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Band
      

2008 Brookhaven, Lexington, Massachusetts; OMS Chamber Orchestra

2007. 
      Director and performer (bass), concert tour of Italy and Greece, AHS Honors Orchestra; Italy: Santa Maria Church, Gioiosa; Istituto Agrario, Pezzolo; Greece: Patros High School, Patros; St. John Church, Athens
      

2007 Conductor and performer (bass), Tino D’Agostino String Quartet and Maria De Simone; St. John Theatre, Vancouver, Canada

2006. 
      Dante Alighieri Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, OMS Chamber Orchestra
      

2006 Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, AHS Jazz Band and Full Orchestra with Maria De Simone

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2002 Warwick High School, Warwick, New York, AHS Full Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Band

2001. 
      Cambridge Nursing Home, Cambridge, Massachusetts, OMS Chamber Orchestra
      

2001 Zonta Club of Arlington, Arlington, Massachusetts, OMS Chamber Orchestra

Concerto for Bass and Viola, Allegro ma non troppo

Concerto for Two Violins in C Minor

Military March in C

Symphony No. 5 Finale

J. Berger

Short Overture for Strings

Block M March

Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2

Polovtzian Dances from Prince Igor

Hungarian Dance No. 5

Simple Symphony, I “Boisterous Bouree”

Violin Sonata, Op. 5 No. 5

Concertino for Flute Solo and Wind Ensemble

Italian Rhapsody

Symphony No.5 “From the New World,” Allegro con fuoco

Concerto for Violin

Concert en E flat Major for Alto Sax and Orchestra

Overture to Don Juan

Allegro from Concerto Grosso, Opus 6 No. 1

Concerto Grosso No. 2, II Introduction and allegro, IV Allegro ma non troppo

Handel-Halvorsen

Passacaglia

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Allegro moderato

Trumpet Concerto in E flat

Holst

St. Paul’s Suite, Jig

St. Paul’s Suite, Finale

Second Suite in F for Military Band

Suite Baroque

Armenian Rhapsody No. 3

Overture Russe

Symphony No. 6

Sinfonia No. IV in C Minor

Serenade No. 9 “Posthorn,” Finale

String Quartet No. 8 in F, Movement IV

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Allegro

Themes from Symphony No. 40

Czardas

Zaragoza

“Nessun dorma”

Solo de Concours

Overture to The Barber of Seville

Overture to L’Italiana in Algieri

John Rutter

Suite for Strings, “A-Roving”

Concerto for Oboe in C Major

Marche Militaire

English Fugue

Three Movements from Petrushka

Fezziwig’s Dance

1812 Overture

Marche Slav

Telemann

Concerto in G Major

Concerto for Viola, Allegro

Ralph Vaughn Williams

Oboe Concerto in A Minor, Finale

Overture to Nabucco

“Ah fors’è lui” from La Traviata

Vivaldi

Concerto in A Minor, I Allegro moderato

Concerto in Re Maggiore, Allegro molto

Concerto for Due Violoncelli, I Allegro

Concerto for Two Flutes

La Notte

Wagner

Overture to Die Meistersinger

Highlights from Jurassic Park

2011 Ricardo Odriozola, composer and violin soloist, Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts

Arlington Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts

2005. 
      Rocco Ventrella, saxophone soloist, Bari, Italy;
      

Teatro Augusteo, Salerno, Italy

Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts

Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts

2006 Maria De Simone, soprano soloist, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy; Berklee Performance Center, Boston, Massachusetts

2004. 
      Eugene Friesen, director, Berklee String Orchestra, Arlington High School, Arlington Massachusetts.
      

2012-13 Spajazzy Quartet, with Mark Greel, tour of Switzerland and Italy, director and performer

2009-10 Spajazzy Quartet, with Mark Nomad, tour of Switzerland and Italy, director and performer

2010 Bari in Jazz/ Frank Wilkins, tour of Italy, director and performer

2010 East Boston Jazz Festival, Boston, Massachusetts

2009 Spajazzy, with Mark Greel, tour of Italy, director and performer

2008 Steve Hunt Trio, tour of Italy

1997- Present Mark Greel Band, Boston, Massachusetts

Bob Gullotti, Boston, Massachusetts

Natalie Jackson, Boston, Massachusetts

Jeff Galindo, Boston, Massachusetts

Miles Donahue Band, Boston, Massachusetts

Philippe Crétien, Boston, Massachusetts

Little Horse Band, Boston, Massachusetts

Jim Kelly Trio, Boston, Massachusetts

Full Steam Ahead, Boston, Massachusetts

Drifters Show, Boston, Massachusetts

Kay Turnbull Band, Boston, Massachusetts

Wayne Krantz, Boston, Massachusetts

Chris Waller, Boston, Massachusetts

Randy Johnston, Boston, Massachusetts

John Ramsey, Boston, Massachusetts

Anthony Law Quartet, Boston, Massachusetts

1998. 
      Spajazzy, European tour
      

98. 
    Jim Kelly Trio, European tour
    

1995. 
      Steve Hunt Quartet, European tour
      

1994. 
      Berklee Small Ensemble Band, Boston, Massachusetts
      

1994 Felice Marino Trio, Salerno, Italy

1994 Sandra Diano Band, Salerno, Italy

1994 RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana) Orchestra, Naples, Italy

Andrea Bocelli, Ivan Cattaneo, Peppino Di Capri

1993 Paolino Dalla Porta Duo, Siena, Italy

1993 Klauss Lessman Sextet, Siena, Italy

1993 Danilo Rea, Rome, Italy

1992 TMC (Tele Monte Carlo) International Orchestra, Rome, Italy

91. 
    RAI Orchestra, Rome, Italy
    

91. 
    Vicenza Symphony Orchestra, Vicenza, Italy
    

90. 
    Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Salerno, Italy
    

88. 
    Willy Frank Orchestra, European tour
    
89. 
    RAI Orchestra, Naples, Italy
    

AEF, Arlington, Massachusetts

Seaport Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

2013 Pirandello Lyceum, I Migliori in Mens et Gesta (“Best in Thought and Deeds”), Hyatt Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

2006. 
      Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS), Cambridge College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
      

2004 Teacher certification in music, K-12, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1994. 
      Bachelor’s diploma in music performance summa cum laude, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
      

1995. 
      Certificate in English as a Second Language (ESL), Cambridge English School, Salerno, Italy
      

1993 Music education certification and licensure, elementary and junior high school level, Naples, Italy

88. 
    Diploma in piano tuning, Conoscere il Piano Institute, Recanati,
    

1986. 
      Diploma in industrial electronics, G. Galilei Technical Institute, Salerno, Italy
      

1986. 
      Diploma in the history of music, Umberto I Conservatory, Salerno, Italy
      

1984. 
      Diploma in traditional harmony, Umberto I Conservatory, Salerno, Italy
      

1982. 
      Diploma in solfege, Giacomo Puccini Conservatory, Benevento, Italy
      

Continuing Education

2006. 
      “Dancing and Singing for Students,” John Fierabend (University of Hartford), Arlington, Massachusetts
      

2004 “Conversational Solfege,” John Fierabend (University of Hartford), Belmont, Massachusetts

2003. 
      “Vocal Music in Public Schools,” John Fierabend (University of Hartford), Belmont, Massachusetts
      

1994. 
      Summer clinics, Berklee College of Music, Perugia, Italy
      

1994. 
      Advanced Jazz Improvisation, Siena Jazz Institute, Siena, Italy
      

1991. 
      Jazz Improvisation, Siena Jazz Institute, Siena, Italy
      

88. 
    Jazz Harmonic Analysis, Amedeo Tommasi, Salerno, Italy
    

2010 How to Record with Logic, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts

2000. 
      Acoustic bass, Helen Stevenson, Arlington, Massachusetts
      

1998. 
      Electric bass, John Lockwood, Belmont, Massachusetts
      

97. 
    Improvisation techniques, Hal Crook, Attleboro, Massachusetts
    

97. 
    Bass and ensemble techniques, Bruce Gertz, Boston, MA
    

94. 
    Bass, Dario Deidda, Rome, Italy
    

1994. 
      Ensemble techniques, Oscar Stagnaro, Boston, Massachusetts
      

1993. 
      Conducting, Giuseppe Mirra, Salerno, Italy
      

1992 Composition and conducting, Paolino Dalla Porta, Milan, Italy

1991. 
      Composition and conducting, Furio Di Castri, Siena, Italy
      

2013 AHS Jazz Band and Octet at ACMI Studio,

ACMI Studio, Arlington, Massachusetts
2011 Honors Orchestra Highlights, AHS Honors Orchestra,

Lowe Auditorium, Arlington, Massachusetts

2006 “Get a Move On, a Gradual Approach to Walking

Bass Lines”: six articles, Bass Guitar magazine,

New York, New York

2003. 
      “Left-Right Hand Coordination,” Zon Guitar Publications, Los Angeles, California
      

2004 Beata Gioventu, composition for full orchestra, Ricordi Editori, Milan, Italy

2000. 
      An Audio-Visual Approach to the History of Music from Baroque to Contemporary, Cambridge College Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
      

1999 Son Finite le Vergini, Jazz Education Guide, New York, New York