Lecturer, woodwind techniques

Throughout his career Tony Pietricola was a music educator in the public schools and a musician. His public school teaching spanned 40 years, teaching in Ithaca, New York, Kingston, Mass., Grand Isle County, VT, and Charlotte, VT. He has also been an adjunct faculty member at Johnson State College, St. Michael’s College and the University of Vermont. Tony has performed with the South Shore Concert Band, the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Jazz Ensemble, the Vermont Symphony and many other smaller groups. His repertoire includes all styles of music. Frequently found in pit orchestras for Lyric Theatre, and St. Michael’s Playhouse, he enjoys being part of musical theater.

Tony participated as a member of the Vermont Arts Assessment Design Team, helped write the original Vermont Framework of Learning Expectations, the Vermont Grade Cluster Expectations and was a member of  S.C.A.S.S (States Collaborative on Assessment of Student Standards), a national organization under the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington, D.C. He served as president of the Vermont Music Educators' Association. He has presented workshops locally, statewide and nationally and was voted the 2003 Vermont Music Educator of the Year by the Vermont Music Educators’ Association and a Vermont Outstanding Teacher by the University of Vermont in 1992.  One of his favorite tributes was being presented an award for outstanding contribution to jazz education by the Flynn Theater of the Performing Arts, delivered by Wynton Marsalis in 2005.

Tony lives in Grand Isle with his wife Susan where he enjoys gardening, fishing and cutting wood.

Tony Pietricola

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woodwind techniques

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