Dominic Giardino, Historical Clarinet

Historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino enjoys a varied professional life as a performer, administrator, and researcher. During the 2025–2026 season, Dominic can be heard in the orchestras of the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and La Grande Bande. He appears regularly in chamber music programs with Wit’s Folly, the Raleigh Camerata, Three Notch’d Road, and Early Music Access Project, and has recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem Orchestra, and as a soloist with Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band. He is the co-director of Music of the Regiment, a period-instrument wind band specializing in repertoire spanning the Age of Enlightenment through the American Civil War. Dominic is a 2016 Fulbright grantee and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.