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Artist’s Voice: Domenic Salerni

ARTS HUB US: As a nineteen-year-old violinist enrolled in conservatory, I am over the hill by soloist standards — there is a fascination with the child prodigy that for many musicians over the age of twelve presents a real dilemma, so if I had any desire to be an internationally acclaimed soloist, I might as well have thrown in the towel five years ago.

18 Jun 2007

Domenic Salerni

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When I am asked what I am doing with music, I invariably must pause. As a nineteen-year-old violinist enrolled in conservatory, I am over the hill by soloist standards. Since Midori in the eighties — really, since Mozart in the (seventeen) fifties — there has been a fascination with the child prodigy that for many musicians over the age of twelve presents a real dilemma. I know at this point I will most likely not be the next Hilary Hahn. At my age, she had already hit the international scene and was well into her career as concert soloist. If I had any desire to be an internationally acclaimed soloist, I might as well have thrown in the towel five years ago.

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Domenic Salerni

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Domenic Salerni will be a junior at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studies with Linda Cerone and William Preucil. He started playing the violin at age three with Linda Fiore. He has also studied with Lee Snyder and Geoffrey Michaels, and was a scholarship student of Naoko Tanaka at the Pre-college Division of the Juilliard School. Domenic has had extensive experience as a soloist, chamber musician, and recitalist. He spent 1999-2000 in Italy where he played solo recitals in Bassano and Vicenza and performed as soloist and orchestra member with the Camerata Vicentina Musicale in a concert for the European Union's Conference on Human Rights in Venice. Domenic is currently a member of the Iannis Quartet based in Cleveland. He plays a Fabio Dalla Costa “ex Guarnerius del Jesu” violin made especially for him in 2002.