Dorothy Martirano (Urbana, Illinois)
PERFORMANCE, Friday, July 25, 1997,
7pm, Tacoma Art Museum.
Dorothy Martirano
received her degrees from the University of Illinois where she
studied violin with Paul Rolland and John Garvey, and piano with
Claire Richards and Soulima Stravinsky. Ms. Martirano is the Concertmaster
of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. She is violinist,
arranger, founding member and co-director of Champaign-Urbana's
"String Society". She is the violinist for "Maria
Company" and for rhythm and blues band "The Dead Beats".
She regularly performs with and records for "Champaign Underground".
Recent solo and ensemble performances include guest appearances
at the University of Chicago, Chicago's "Hot House",
the L.A. Philharmonic's New Music Series, and the "Knitting
Factory" in NYC. She toured extensively with Composer/Performer
Salvatore Martirano during the 1980s and early '90s doing both
solo performances and duos with "Four not Two" a composing/performing
interactive computer/MIDI synthesizer system for improvisation,
including performances in Romania and Korea, at "New Music
America" in Philadelphia, and at New York's Merkin Hall and
Roulette. Locally, Ms. Martirano has performed with the Springfield
Symphony, the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia da Camera,
the U. of I. Contemporary Chamber Players, the U. of I. Jazz Band,
the U. of I Russian Orchestra, Medicare 7, 8. and 9, the Tom Painter
Quintet, Faces, the BACH Ensemble, and the Prairie Ensemble. She
was a founding member of, and arranger for the Square Knot Quartet,
a string quartet which specialized in improvisation. She has done
numerous broadcasts and interviews for WILL and WEFT radio, and
for local Cable Television. She Has Recorded for Centaur, Polydor,
Hal Leonard, Paramount Pictures, Champaign Underground, Pogo Studios,
and Mark Records, among others. She is featured on "Salvatore
Martirano, a Retrospective", a 1995 Centaur release, and
an upcoming New World Records CD. Ms. Martirano plans for this
spring include a recording of popular standards (arranged by Salvatore
Martirano) with local jazz artists Brian Wilkey and Catalin Rotaru)
and a performance of Sampler (also by Martirano) for Zeta violin
and the yahaSALmaMAC MIDI orchestra at the Lunar Cabaret in Chicago
in June.