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  • Genre: Acoustic / Bluegrass / Other

    Location Boston, Massachusetts, Un

    Profile Views: 71840

    Last Login: 7/22/2011

    Member Since 3/2/2006

    Website www.DominickLeslie.com

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    Colorado native Dominick Leslie is a fourth semester student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been around live music all his life and thanks to his dad, he has been playing since he was old enough to hold an instrument. He attended his first bluegrass festival at the age of five months and grew up listening to his dad’s bluegrass band and extensive record collection. The same year he was potty-trained, he acquired a ukulele tuned like the bottom four strings of a guitar. As the years went by Dominick developed a deep passion for music. This love for music was apparent at an early age as Dominick’s abilities progressed rapidly on guitar, fiddle and mandolin. Eventually Dominick switched his focus completely to the mandolin and by the time he was 12, he was writing his own music and practicing every day. Just a few years later at 15, he recorded his first solo CD “Signs of Courage” which received rave reviews from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine. In 2004, Dominick became the youngest contestant ever to win the Rockygrass mandolin contest. Since then he has placed first in the Merlefest mandolin contest and second in the Walnut Valley International Mandolin contest. Dominick was also featured in Mike Marshall’s Young American Mandolin Ensemble. This elite group of seven young musicians was invited to perform with Mike at the Mandolines de Lunel festival in France in October of 2007. He has studied with mandolin virtuosos David Grisman, Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Don Stiernberg, Andy Statman and Hamilton de Holanda at the Mandolin Symposium at the University Of Santa Cruz and his bluegrass/old-time music roots have evolved into current interests in jazz, classical, and other folk music forms, hence his enrollment at Berklee. Starting in the summer of 2009, Dominick had the incredible opportunity of touring nearly full time with Missy Raines and her band The New Hip. Missy has been named the International Bluegrass Music Awards bass player of the year seven times. Dominick is currently a member of several progressive string bands from around the nation including The Grant Gordy Quartet (Grant is the newest member of the renowned David Grisman Quintet), The Deadly Gentlemen and The Bee Eaters. "The Bee Eaters are the instrumental cream of the brand new string nation." - Darol Anger Whether writing a new piece, learning a tune or joining a hero on stage, Dominick will always share his love of music with others and enjoy playing the mandolin.

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    Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice, David Grisman, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Chris Eldridge, Noam Pikelny, Aubrey Haynie, Gabe Witcher, Bryan Sutton, Matt Flinner, Andy Statman, Matt Mundy, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Del McCoury Band, David Grier, Edgar Meyer, Russ Barenberg, Tim O'Brien, Mike Compton, Billy Contreras, Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Bruce Molsky, Casey Driessen, Rushad Eggleston, Vasen, Shakti, U. Srinivas, Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Django and Stephane, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Bob Marley, Radiohead, Eric Robertson and many more.

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    BLESSING!

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    my BRAND NEW CD  "JACKSON'S LOVE - FOR THE LOVE

    OF A CHILD".  I believe it is the very best music that I

    and the band have ever recorded!  Watch for it later

    this fall @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com!

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    It Takes 10,000 HOURS to Develop Talent Dominick!
     
    How Many Hours Have You Clocked Today?

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    It has been said that you must have 10,000 hours

    of practice in a subject to be an EXPERT.

    “In fact, by the age of twenty, the elite performers (violinists) had each totaled 10,000 hours of practice.”

    "The emerging picture from such studies is that 10,000 hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a WORLD CLASS EXPERT."

    1 HOUR PER DAY OF PRACTICE WOULD REQUIRE 27.3
    YEARS OF PRACTICE TO EQUAL10,000 HOURS.

    3 HOURS OF PRACTICE PER DAY - WITH NO DAYS
    OFF -  WOULD STILL TAKE 9.1 YEARS OF PRACTICE
    TO EQUAL 10,000 HOURS!

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Bio:

Colorado native Dominick Leslie is a fourth semester student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been around live music all his life and thanks to his dad, he has been playing since he was old enough to hold an instrument. He attended his first bluegrass festival at the age of five months and grew up listening to his dad’s bluegrass band. The same year he was potty-trained, he acquired a ukulele tuned like the bottom four strings of a guitar. As the years went by Dominick developed a deep passion for music. This love for music was apparent at an early age as Dominick’s abilities progressed rapidly on guitar, fiddle and mandolin. Eventually Dominick switched his focus completely to the mandolin and by the time he was 12, he was writing his own music and practicing every day. Just a few years later at 15, he recorded his first solo CD “Signs of Courage” which received rave reviews from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine. In 2004, Dominick became the youngest contestant ever to win the Rockygrass mandolin contest. Since then he has placed first in the Merlefest mandolin contest and second in the Walnut Valley International Mandolin contest. Dominick was also featured in Mike Marshall’s Young American Mandolin Ensemble. This elite group of seven young musicians was invited to perform with Mike at the Mandolines de Lunel festival in France in October of 2007. He has studied with mandolin virtuosos David Grisman, Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Don Stiernberg, Andy Statman and Hamilton de Holanda at the Mandolin Symposium at the University Of Santa Cruz. He has been an attending student there every year since it’s inception in 2004. His Bluegrass music roots have evolved into current interests in Jazz, Classical and other musical forms, hence his enrollment at Berklee. Dominick is currently a member of the progressive Grant Gordy Quartet (Grant is the newest member of the renowned David Grisman Quintet) and he can also be heard performing with seven time IBMA bass player of the year Missy Raines and her band the New Hip. Whether writing a new piece, learning a tune or joining a hero on stage, Dominick will always share his love of music with others and enjoy playing the mandolin.

Member Since:

March 02, 2006

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Influences:

Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice, David Grisman, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Chris Eldridge, Noam Pikelny, Aubrey Haynie, Gabe Witcher, Bryan Sutton, Matt Flinner, Andy Statman, Matt Mundy, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Del McCoury Band, David Grier, Edgar Meyer, Russ Barenberg, Tim O'Brien, Mike Compton, Billy Contreras, Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Bruce Molsky, Casey Driessen, Rushad Eggleston, Vasen, Shakti, U. Srinivas, Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Django and Stephane, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Bob Marley, Radiohead, Eric Robertson and many more.

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