Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred Music
Dominic Fiacco
CURRENT STUDENT PROFILE
Dominic Fiacco is an organ performance major in Nathan Laube’s studio at the Eastman School of Music. Originally from the Utica, New York area, Fiacco started playing the organ in 2012.
Fiacco has performed at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City and at the Cadet Chapel at West Point, home to the world’s third largest organ. As a middle and high schooler, he attended several summer intensives in Philadelphia, where he performed at the Curtis Institute of Music and on the Wanamaker Organ, the world’s second largest instrument. In January 2023, he played the dedicatory recital on Hamilton College’s new concert organ, going on to appear with the Hamilton College Orchestra as the organ soloist in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Third Symphony. He was also named to the 20 under 30 Class of 2023 by The Diapason, the oldest American scholarly journal dedicated to the organ.
Fiacco began piano lessons at the age of four and is currently studying with Muzi Zhao, a doctoral student at Eastman. In addition to winning prizes in several piano competitions, he has also performed numerous times on the Society for New Music’s Rising Stars programs on piano and organ. He previously studied with Stephen Best on organ and Sar-Shalom Strong on piano, both of whom lecture at Hamilton College.