Sabato D’Agostino
54 Bright Street
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
2010 Guest lecturer/clinician: “Ensemble Teaching Strategies,” American String Teachers Association (ASTA), Santa Clara, California
1999-Present Arlington High School (AHS), Arlington, 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
2003-Present Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
Berklee Summer Program
Director and conductor: jazz, fusion, and rock ensembles
Instructor: “Theory in Performance”
2009-Present Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
Lugano, Switzerland
Instructor: jazz improvisation
2008-Present Director and founder: Musica Vesuviana Festival, summer music camp, Salerno, Italy
Instructor: general music, improvisation, ensemble
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Guest lecturer/clinician: “The Sense of Groove”
Massachusetts Music Educators Conference: World Trade Center,
Boston, Massachusetts
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Guest lecturer/clinician: “Be-Bop on the Electric Bass”
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
2007 Guest lecturer/clinician: “Muscle Memory”
Massachusetts Music Educators Conference: World Trade Center,
Boston, Massachusetts
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Guest lecturer/clinician: “How to Improve the Rhythm Section”
Massachusetts Music Educators Conference: World Trade Center,
Boston, Massachusetts
2004 Guest lecturer/clinician: “Developing Rhythm Skills” Massachusetts Music Educators Conference: Danvers, Massachusetts
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Mansfield Elementary School: Mansfield, Massachusetts
General music instructor: Grades 1 & 2
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Leonardo Da Vinci Elementary School: Salerno, Italy
General music instructor: Grades 1-6
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Galileo Galilei High School: Salerno, Italy
General music instructor: Grades 9-12
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Salvatore Quasimodo Junior High School: Avellino, Italy
General music instructor: Grades 7 & 8
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Cardile Scuola Comunale: Cardile, Italy
General music instructor: Grade 1-5
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)
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“Boys of Music” School: Salerno, Italy
General music instructor
Curriculum: see above
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Campigliano Scuola Comunale: Campigliano, Italy
General and private instructor
Curriculum: see above
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Willy Frank School: Angri, Italy
Private instructor.
Curriculum: see above
Conducting Experience
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
2013 Italian National Day Event
Algonquin Club, Boston, Massachusetts
2012 Concert tour of Italy, Hungary, and Switzerland, AHS Honors Orchestra; Santa Maria Church, Milan, Italy; Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland; Mariana Music School, Budapest, Hungary
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Prada Opening Night, in collaboration with the Italian Consulate in New England, AHS Jazz Band; Neiman Marcus, Natick, Massachusetts
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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
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Newburgh High School, Newburgh, NY; AHS Full Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Band
2008 Brookhaven, Lexington, Massachusetts; OMS Chamber Orchestra
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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
2007 Dante Alighieri Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, AHS Jazz Band
2007 Boston Bio International Convention, AHS Jazz Band; Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, Massachusetts
2007 Concert tour of Italy, AHS Jazz Band; Teatro Augusteo, Salerno; Teatro Puccini, Sorrento; Roccella Liceo High School, Convento dei Cappuccini, and Roccella Jonica Teatro Comunale, Roccella Jonica; Instituto Agrario, Pezzolo
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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
2004 Charleston, South Carolina, AHS Full Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Band, Charleston High School
2004 Caribbean tour, Nassau, Bahamas, AHS Jazz Band
2003 Jazz Jam Festival, Lowe Auditorium, Arlington High School, Arlington, Massachusetts
2002 Massachusetts Music Educators Conference, Danvers, Massachusetts, OMS Chamber Orchestra
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2002 Warwick High School, Warwick, New York, AHS Full Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Band
2001 Arlington Housing Authority, Arlington, Massachusetts, AHS Jazz Band
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Cambridge Nursing Home, Cambridge, Massachusetts, OMS Chamber Orchestra
2001 Zonta Club of Arlington, Arlington, Massachusetts, OMS Chamber Orchestra
2000 Quebec City, Canada, AHS Full Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Band
2000 Shriners Hospital Fundraiser Concert, Shriners Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, OMS Chamber Orchestra
2000 International Association of Jazz Educators, Beverly, Massachusetts, AHS Jazz Band
1999 “A Hospital for Ukraine” benefit concert, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, AHS Jazz Band
Works Conducted (Partial List)
Anderson
Bluebells of Scotland
W. Altman
Concerto for Bass and Viola, Allegro ma non troppo
Bach
Concerto for Two Violins in C Minor
Badelt
Pirates of the Caribbean
Beethoven
Military March in C
Symphony No. 5 Finale
J. Berger
Short Overture for Strings
Bilik
Block M March
Bizet
Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Carmen
Copland
Hoe Down
Bernstein
West Side Story
Borodin
Polovtzian Dances from Prince Igor
Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Britten
Simple Symphony, I “Boisterous Bouree”
Corelli
Violin Sonata, Op. 5 No. 5
Chaminade
Concertino for Flute Solo and Wind Ensemble
S. D’Agostino
Italian Rhapsody
Sei Una Florida
Nel Buio di Oak Hill
Dvorak
Symphony No.5 “From the New World,” Allegro con fuoco
Ellington
V.I.P.’s Boogie
J. H. Fiocco
Concerto for Violin
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Glazounov
Concert en E flat Major for Alto Sax and Orchestra
Gluck
Overture to Don Juan
Handel
Allegro from Concerto Grosso, Opus 6 No. 1
Concerto Grosso No. 2, II Introduction and allegro, IV Allegro ma non troppo
Handel-Halvorsen
Passacaglia
R. Hardiman
Lord of the Dance
Haydn
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
L. Hurwitz
Suite Baroque
Hovhaness
Armenian Rhapsody No. 3
Mountains and Rivers without End
M. Isaac
Overture Russe
Kander & Ebb
Chicago
Mahler
Symphony No. 6
Mendelssohn
Sinfonia No. IV in C Minor
Morricone
Once Upon a Time in America
Mozart
Serenade No. 9 “Posthorn,” Finale
String Quartet No. 8 in F, Movement IV
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Allegro
Themes from Symphony No. 40
Vincenzo Monti
Czardas
Osterling
Mount of Might
Saint-Saens
Marche Militaire Francaise
Soon Hee Newbold
Fantasia Espagnola
Olivadoti
Zaragoza
Puccini
“Nessun dorma”
H. Rabaud
Solo de Concours
Ravel
Bolero
Alfred Reed
El Camino Real
Rimsky-Korsakov
Slava!
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Rodgers & Hammerstein
The Sound of Music
Rossini
Overture to The Barber of Seville
Overture to L’Italiana in Algieri
John Rutter
Suite for Strings, “A-Roving”
Sammartini
Concerto for Oboe in C Major
Schubert
Marche Militaire
Selby
English Fugue
Shore
Lord of the Rings
Shostakovich
Galop
Stravinsky
Three Movements from Petrushka
P. Tassone
Gemelli Chronicle
Fezziwig’s Dance
Dzon
Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Marche Slav
Telemann
Concerto in G Major
Concerto for Viola, Allegro
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Oboe Concerto in A Minor, Finale
Verdi
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
Webber
Phantom of the Opera
J. Williams
Highlights from Jurassic Park
Collaborations with Guest Conductors and Soloists
2011 Ricardo Odriozola, composer and violin soloist, Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
2009 Sylvie Zakarian, vibraphone soloist, Arlington Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
2009 Ricardo Odriozola, composer and violin soloist, Lowe Auditorium, Arlington High School, Arlington
2008 Debra Hanson-Conant, harp soloist, Lowe Auditorium, Arlington High School, Arlington
2008 David Harris, director, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra,
Arlington Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
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Rocco Ventrella, saxophone soloist, Bari, Italy;
Berklee College of Music and various venues, Boston, MA
2007 Maestro Gerardo Sapere, director, Monterisi Orchestra;
Teatro Augusteo, Salerno, Italy
2007 Dario Deidda, composer and bass soloist, Salerno, Italy;
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
2007 Pippo Matino, composer and bass soloist, Naples, Italy;
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
2007 Rich Stillman, banjo soloist, Arlington Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
2007 Maestro Carlo Frasca, director, Arlesiana Orchestra, Convento dei Cappuccini, Roccella Jonica, Italy
2006 Maestro Aldo Minelli, guitarist and professor, G. Verdi Conservatory, Milan, Italy; Lowe Auditorium, Arlington High School
2006 Maria De Simone, soprano soloist, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy; Berklee Performance Center, Boston, Massachusetts
2006 Orchestra Napoletana and Maria De Simone, soprano soloist, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy; Berklee Performance Center, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 Mimi Rabson, professor of strings, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
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Eugene Friesen, director, Berklee String Orchestra, Arlington High School, Arlington Massachusetts.
Performing Experience
Bass
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
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Spajazzy, European tour
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Jim Kelly Trio, European tour
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Steve Hunt Quartet, European tour
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Berklee Small Ensemble Band, Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Umbria Jazz Berklee Quintet, Italian tour
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
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RAI Orchestra, Rome, Italy
Trumpet
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Vicenza Symphony Orchestra, Vicenza, Italy
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Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Salerno, Italy
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Willy Frank Orchestra, European tour
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RAI Orchestra, Naples, Italy
Awards and Honors
Ensembles under the direction of S. D’Agostino
2013 AEF Teacher of the year award, STARS
AEF, Arlington, Massachusetts
2013 Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival, first place, AHS Jazz Octet; Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts
2011 Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival, second place, AHS Jazz Band; Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival, fifth place, AHS Jazz Band; Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 Command performance, Massachusetts Music Educators Association Conference, AHS Honors Orchestra;
Seaport Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
2004 Overall grand championship and gold medal, Bahamas Cruise Festival, AHS Jazz Band; Nassau, Bahamas
2002 Command performance, Massachusetts Music Educators Association Conference, OMS Chamber Orchestra; Danvers, Massachusetts
2000 Gold medal, International Association of Jazz Educators, AHS Jazz Band; Beverly, Massachusetts
S. D’Agostino
2013 Pirandello Lyceum, I Migliori in Mens et Gesta (“Best in Thought and Deeds”), Hyatt Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
2012 Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education Award, Goldin Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts
1996 Bass Department Chair Award, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Best Bass Player, Umbria Jazz Berklee Quintet, Umbria Jazz Festival, Umbria, Italy
1994 Full Scholarship, Berklee College of Music, Umbria Jazz Clinics, Perugia, Italy
1994 Full Scholarship, Umbria Jazz Clinics, First National Bass Competition, Pesaro, Italy
1994 Best Bass Player Award, First National Bass Competition, Pesaro, Italy
1993 Excellence Award, Siena Jazz Festival, Siena, Italy
Education
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Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS), Cambridge College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2004 Teacher certification in music, K-12, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2002 Master’s in education and integrated studies summa cum laude, Cambridge College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Bachelor’s diploma in music performance summa cum laude, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
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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
1991 Music education certification and licensure high school level, Florence, Italy
1990 Bachelor’s degree in music education, pedagogy and didactics, Florence, Italy
1989 Master’s in composition and conducting summa cum laude,
Umberto I Conservatory, Salerno, Italy
1987 Bachelor’s diploma in classical trumpet summa cum laude, Umberto I Conservatory, Florence, Italy
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Diploma in piano tuning, Conoscere il Piano Institute, Recanati,
Italy
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Diploma in industrial electronics, G. Galilei Technical Institute, Salerno, Italy
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Diploma in the history of music, Umberto I Conservatory, Salerno, Italy
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Diploma in traditional harmony, Umberto I Conservatory, Salerno, Italy
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Diploma in solfege, Giacomo Puccini Conservatory, Benevento, Italy
Continuing Education
Clinics attended
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“Dancing and Singing for Students,” John Fierabend (University of Hartford), Arlington, Massachusetts
2004 “Conversational Solfege,” John Fierabend (University of Hartford), Belmont, Massachusetts
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“Vocal Music in Public Schools,” John Fierabend (University of Hartford), Belmont, Massachusetts
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Summer clinics, Berklee College of Music, Perugia, Italy
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Advanced Jazz Improvisation, Siena Jazz Institute, Siena, Italy
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Jazz Improvisation, Siena Jazz Institute, Siena, Italy
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Jazz Harmonic Analysis, Amedeo Tommasi, Salerno, Italy
Private Studies
2010 How to Record with Logic, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 Advanced Harmony, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 Arranging For Woodwinds and Strings, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Writing with Finale, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
2007 Arranging For Big Bands, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
2006 Website Design, Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
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Acoustic bass, Helen Stevenson, Arlington, Massachusetts
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Electric bass, John Lockwood, Belmont, Massachusetts
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Improvisation techniques, Hal Crook, Attleboro, Massachusetts
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Bass and ensemble techniques, Bruce Gertz, Boston, MA
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Bass, Dario Deidda, Rome, Italy
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Ensemble techniques, Oscar Stagnaro, Boston, Massachusetts
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Conducting, Giuseppe Mirra, Salerno, Italy
1992 Composition and conducting, Paolino Dalla Porta, Milan, Italy
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Composition and conducting, Furio Di Castri, Siena, Italy
Recordings
2013 AHS Jazz Band and Octet at ACMI Studio,
ACMI Studio, Arlington, Massachusetts
2011 Honors Orchestra Highlights, AHS Honors Orchestra,
Lowe Auditorium, Arlington, Massachusetts
2010 Live at Lowe Auditorium: JazzItalia 2010, AHS Jazz Band, Lowe Auditorium, Arlington, Massachusetts
2009 Live at the MMEA Festival, AHS Honors Orchestra, Seaport Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 One Great Year, AHS Honors Orchestra, Arlington, Massachusetts
2009 Hovhaness Celebration Live, AHS Honors Orchestra, Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
2007 JazzItalia, AHS Jazz Band, Somerville, Boston, Arlington, Massachusetts
2004 Al Dente, Tino D’Agostino, solo album, Waltham, Massachusetts
2003 Unplugged, Steve Hunt Band, Chelmsford, Massachusetts
2002 Live at the MMEA Festival, OMS Chamber Orchestra, Danvers, Massachusetts
2001 Little Horse, Little Horse, Brookline, Massachusetts
1998 Anime Morte, Maurizio Tiella, Boston, Massachusetts
1997 Spajazzy, featuring Mike Stern and Jim Kelly, Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York
1997 How Many Heroes, Enrico Cerretti, Carlisle, Massachusetts
1997 1-11, Sergio Bellotti, Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Napoli prima e dopo, RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana), Naples, Italy
Publications
2006 “Get a Move On, a Gradual Approach to Walking
Bass Lines”: six articles, Bass Guitar magazine,
New York, New York
2005 “Left-Right Hand Coordination,” Bass Guitar magazine,
London, United Kingdom
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“Left-Right Hand Coordination,” Zon Guitar Publications, Los Angeles, California
2004 Beata Gioventu, composition for full orchestra, Ricordi Editori, Milan, Italy
2003 Sei Una Florida, composition for string orchestra and flute, Adrums Press, Boston, Massachusetts
2002 As We Strive, composition for full orchestra, Ricordi Editori, Milan, Italy
2002 Time Dub, composition for full orchestra, Ricordi Editori, Milan, Italy
2001 Nel Buio di Oak Hill, composition for string orchestra and clarinet, Ricordi Editori, Milan, Italy
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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
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