Vince DiMartino

Opening Concert

Vince DiMartino is one of our country’s most sought-after trumpet performers and educators. Since graduating from The Eastman School of Music in 1972, Professor DiMartino had taught at the University of Kentucky until 1993. At that time, DiMartino began a new appointment as Distinguished Artist in residence at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. There, he teaches trumpet, brass, and jazz ensembles, and jazz history. He has served as the Music Chair and is currently coordinator of the Centre College Instrumental Program. He was distinguished Matton Professor of Music at Centre College until his retirement in 2012.

DiMartino is equally known as a jazz artist. He has been the lead and solo trumpet in the Lionel Hampton Band, the Chuck Mangione Band, the Clark Terry Band, and the Eastman Arrangers’ Holiday Orchestra. He has also performed with some of this country’s finest college jazz ensembles. He has been a member of the artist-faculty of the highly acclaimed Skidmore Jazz Institute since its inception in 1988 working with fellow artist-teachers Milt Hinton, Todd Coolman, Ed Shaughnessy, Frank Mantooth, Curtis Fuller, Dick Oatts, and Pat LaBarbera.

The International Trumpet Guild has featured DiMartino as an artist-clinician in major solo programs at their conferences, including Louisiana State University, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, University of Colorado, University of New Mexico, University of Denver, and the University of London, England. DiMartino was a guest at the University of Kentucky Conference in 1998, an event that Professor DiMartino hosted at this same location in 1982.

He has served twice as President and Vice President of The International Trumpet Guild, as well as a member of its Board of Directors for two terms. In 2024, Vince won the ITG Honorary Award in Anaheim, CA.