Alexander Dominitz

It was no suprise to his parents when 5-year-old Alexander Dominitz asked to learn the piano. "He comes from a family of musicians," his mother Nancy said. "We played the Mozart Concertante in the hospital room when I was giving birth. He was surrounded by music from the beginning." Alexander has won numerous competitions and honors throughout the Sacramento area. He recently completed the Advanced Level coursework for the Music Teacher's Association of California's Certificate of Merit examination, which he passed with honors. He was subsequently invited to play in the MTAC Honors Recital for the 6th consecutive year. Alexander has studied with various teachers, including Michael Furnoy and Teresita Roig. However, his most influential instructors have been his current teacher, Freda Revizza of Sacramento, and his father, Ben Dominitz. "Both have opened up a world of musicianship that I never dreamt I would experience," Alexander says. "They are equally irreplaceable for me as teachers, and I'm so glad that they have each been able to work with me without coming into conflict." Alexander and his father finally got to collaborate when they were invited to perform the world premier of Stanford University professor Melissa Hui's And Blue Sparks Burn, commissioned as a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Ms. Hui stated that she was "thrilled with the level of musicianship" when she met them at the performance in Southern California. Although Alexander does not plan on majoring in music in college, he hopes to continue to play and perform whenever he can. "I've recently started composing my own stuff," he stated recently. Alexander graduated from Mira Loma High School in Sacramento, California, in 2005. He will attend Yale University in the fall.