Richard Domek
Professor of Music Theory

Degrees:
PhD Indiana University 1976
MM Indiana University 1970
BM Indiana University 1967

Research Areas:
Jazz research and transcription, arranging, composition, technology, musical styles

At UK since:1974

Phone number: 859-257-1966

Email: dicty@uky.edu

In addition to studies in theory at Indiana University, Richard Domek also studied piano there with Marion Hall, Abbey Simon, and Ivan Davis; composition with Bernard Heiden; and jazz with David Baker.

His research interests include jazz transcriptions and arranging, composition, technology, musical style, and the analysis of jazz and jazz styles, especially the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. He has presented papers to the International Association of Jazz Education, the Society for American Music, the Midwest Music Theory Society, the College Music Society, the American Musicology Society, and the International Council of Fine Arts Deans. His articles and reviews have appeared in Jazz Research Proceedings Yearbook, College Music Symposium, American Music, In Theory Only, Journal of Music Therapy, Music Educators Journal, Percussive Notes, and The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature - Vol., 2, and he served as editor of The Arts at Land Grant Institutions, published by the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.

His transcriptions, arrangements and compositions have been performed, broadcast, and recorded by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the Great American Music Ensemble, the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Rhythm and Brass, the U.S. Air Force Orchestra, the U.S. Air Force Band, the Phoenix Pops Orchestra, the U.S. Army Field Band, the U.S. Army Orchestra, and the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra. His work has been performed at the Kennedy Center and Constitution Hall (Washington DC); Tokyo Bunkakaikan (Tokyo); Festival Aux Remparts (France); the Sony Jazz Center Festival (Finland); the Barbican Centre (London); the Great American Brass Band Festival; the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute; the International Trumpet Guild Annual Conference; the International Tuba-Euphonium Conference; the Bands of America Festival; the New York Brass Conference; and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic; and on the Public Radio International series Jazz Smithsonian. Among CD recordings including his work are Big Band Treasures Live (Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra); Christmas Time is Here and More Money Jungle (Rhythm and Brass); Daniel in the Lion's Den (Daniel Perantoni); and Ellington Celebration (Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra). An active piano performer, he can be heard on Ellington Celebration and on The New York Times: American Newspaper Marches (New Walnut Street All-Star Orchestra). He was a performer in and co-producer of Ellington and Beyond, a program for Kentucky Educational Television (PBS), January, 2001, and was music director and pianist for the “Vintage Rosemary Clooney” portion of the Rosemary Clooney Music Festival, September, 2003, featuring Linda Ronstadt.

Domek serves as co-director, along with Miles Osland, of the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, a professional ensemble dedicated to the preservation and performance of earlier jazz music, and is a program presenter for the Kentucky Humanities Council on Ragtime and Stride Piano Music, and the Music of Duke Ellington. He is the recipient of grants from the Kentucky Humanities Council, Kentucky Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and U.S. Department of Education. He has served as a panelist for the Kentucky Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.