In the six years between the end of his Master's Degree and to moving to Oregon, Vinny performed constantly across New England, including with the Symphony Orchestras of Bangor (Maine), Portland (Maine), Hartford (Conn.), Springfield (Mass.), Albany (New York), the Cape (Cape Cod, Mass.), Symphony New Hampshire, the New England Repertory Orchestra, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic.  Alongside his performing, Vinny also taught music education at The Hartt School (Hartford, Conn.), preschool through eighth grade general, choral, and instrumental music and technology at Union School (Conn.), bassoon at Choate Rosemary Hall (Wallingford, Conn.) and the Community Music School of Springfield (Mass.), and directed two community bands, the East Woodstock Cornet Band and the historic Babcock Cornet Band in his hometown of Ashford, Connecticut.  Vinny also owned and ran the Quiet Corner Music Studio, a hub for lessons, classes, performances, and recording sessions where students ranged from 3 to 83 years old and covered all wind and brass instruments, organ & piano, ukulele, voice, and general music.

Why is that my mission?  Even when a woman cultivates detailed, excellent, cohesive programs of music by women composers and performs them without fault, the uneducated critic can get away with claiming that she only programmed that music because she is a woman.  They can't say that to me, a cisgender white dude, creating the chance for me to program worthy composers of all backgrounds. 

The world is full of incredible music - let's find more of it.