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Violinist and pedagogue Jeanne DeDominick has approximately four decades of music teaching experience in Hampton Roads, Virginia. A violinist with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra since 1989, she participated in recording over twelve albums, including performances with Leon Bates, Tommy Newsom, Bela Fleck and Gil Shaham. Performing at Carnegie Hall in 1997, she has also played with suchartists as Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Midori, Sarah Chang, Wayne Newton, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Al Jarreau, Celtic Women, Rod Stewart, Tony Bennett, and Mannheim Steamroller. She also performs chamber music regularly with The Galliard Trio. She has previously participated in both the Eastern Music Festival and Aspen Music Festival and has performed with the Cincinnati Ballet Company and the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra.

MS. DeDominick serves as an Adjunct Professor of Violin at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s Diehn School of Music and maintains an active private studio. Her students have won concerto competitions with the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ Symphony Orchestra and the Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia and have earned spots performing in a national Gil Shaham masterclass, an American String Teachers Conference master class, and Elizabeth Faidley classes in New York. She has been an active participant in the Starling-Delay Violin symposium at Juilliard since 2009as well as the Promisek Bach Workshop directed by Katie Lansdale, and she has additional training in Paul Rolland teaching pedagogy and jazz improvisation.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Ms. DeDominick is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music with a degree in Music Education. Previously an elementary, middle, and high school orchestra director in Cincinnati’s Indian River School District, Ms. DeDominicktaught for fifteen years in the Virginia Beach Public Schools, where her middle and high school orchestras earned many superior ratings under her direction. Her middle school orchestra was selected to participate in the Virginia Music Educators Conference in 1994, and she was awarded Great Neck Middle School’s Teacher of the Year in 1997. She continues to be active as an adjudicator and guest conductor, having directed All-City and Regional Orchestra events in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg.