Music of the Regiment (MotR) is an ensemble of musicians and network of researchers dedicated to the study and performance of 18th- and 19th-century European & American military music. As a performing ensemble, MotR is everything from a single drummer to a full period-instrument wind band (flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, horns, trombones, trumpets, serpent, and more). As a research collective, MotR strives to historically contextualize military musicians and their contributions to music history over the last three hundred years.
Core Members
Dominic Giardino, co-director & historical clarinets
Historical clarinetist & co-director Dominic Giardino enjoys a varied professional life as a performer, administrator, and researcher. In season 2025–2026, he can be heard performing with Boston Baroque (MA), the Handel & Haydn Society (MA), and La Grande Bande (MN), and in chamber programs with the Raleigh Camerata (NC), Baroque and Beyond (NC), and Gallery Concerts (WA). Dominic has recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Opera Lafayette, and as a soloist with Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band.
Dominic is the executive director of Arizona Early Music, co-director of the period-instrument ensemble Music of the Regiment, and serves on the faculties of the University of North Texas and George Mason University. Dominic studied historical clarinets at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague as a Fulbright grantee.
Chris Troiano, co-director & baritone/bass horns
Baritone/bass hornist & co-director Dr. Chris Troiano is the Historical Ensembles Program Manager at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and is the Program Director of the 8th Green Machine Regiment Band, a mid-19th century brass band that performs music of the American Civil War on period brass instruments. Chris is also the co-host of the Early American Brass Band Podcast, a podcast focusing on sharing research and performances of brass bands from 1835-2023. Chris’ primary instrumental focus is low brass and he is an active teacher and performer on euphonium, baritone, trombone, ophicleide, and military serpent. Chris resides in Springfield, VA with his wife, JennaMarie, and tripawd dog, Gizmo.
Emily Barone, director of field music & historical flutes
Emily Barone is a native of Baltimore, MD. Her musical studies began on piano at age seven with her grandmother and Santa Fe Opera Company singer, Valerie Murphy, taking up the flute at age nine, and the fife at age 12. Emily earned her Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance with a Minor in Early Music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and her principal teachers have included Ms. Sara Nichols and Ms. Laurie Sokoloff on flute/piccolo, Ms. Gwyn Roberts on baroque flute, and Mr. Donald Heminitz on fife. Emily has been a Fife Instrumentalist in the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps since 2016, where she has arranged performance music for the ensemble and oversees the Center for Martial Music, a center for field music research. She is also currently serving as the Secretary for the Company of Fifers and Drummers.
Emily is also very passionate about animal welfare and animal behavior, primarily in a shelter setting, and she loves spending time with her pets and working with animals at the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria.