Dominic DeStephano - Violin/Viola

Contact Information:
email Dominic
513-321-2766

Department: Instrumental: Viola

Education:

  -- DMA in Viola Performance, UC-CCM
-- MM in Viola Performance, UC-CCM
BM in Viola Performance, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Dominic DeStefano, a featured recitalist and chamber musician across North America and Europe, has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in Switzerland and the Aspen Chamber Symphony in Colorado. After completing doctoral studies with his long-term mentors, Masao Kawasaki and Catharine Carroll, he joined the viola faculty of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and became a teaching fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Dr. DeStefano teaches viola and chamber music in CCM’s Starling Preparatory String Project and is a founding teacher of the internet teaching program ViolinMasterclass Live at VMCLive.org. Dr. DeStefano is an experienced Suzuki and traditional teacher with students as young as 3 years old, and has been recognized with awards from the Suzuki Association of the Americas.

A proponent of new music, he performs many new works, including his own, and has been featured on the Fresh Ink series in Aspen and the Sonic Explor