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Dr. Salvatore Vinciguerra is the Director of Music at Palm Glades Academy. He teaches Band, Chorus, and Music Techniques. He is a native of Miami, Florida and credits his inspiration for his career in Music Education to his experiences of learning music in the band and orchestra programs at North Miami Junior and Senior High Schools. As a member of The North Miami Senior High School Pioneer Regiment, he served as student conductor and drum major, and won several awards for playing the trumpet.
Dr. Vinciguerra’s career in music education spans over 25 years teaching band, orchestra, and chorus in public, private and charter schools throughout the Southeastern part of the United States. His accomplishments as a music educator include being an adjudicator for the Florida Orchestra Association, writing string orchestra curriculum for Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia and Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, and writing several grants for his music programs to obtain instruments, equipment, materials, and provide enriching field trips to make them successful.
As a music educator Dr. Vinciguerra has been awarded by The Miami Shores Village and The Florida Department of Education. His biography appears in the fifty-seventh edition of the Marquis Who’s Who In America. In addition, Dr. Vinciguerra’s previous music program earned special distinctions which included being a Semi-Finalist for the Enterprise Award by the Grammy Foundation, and featured at several charter school conferences throughout Florida. His choral students were also selected to perform at Walt Disney World’s Candlelight Processional and participated in several music workshops with Disney music artists. Music students also had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans, Atlanta, participate in Jazz Roots at the Adrienne Arsht Center, work with the Henry Mancini Institute String Ensemble from the University of Miami, and see live performances of The Florida Grand Opera.
Dr. Vinciguerra earned his Bachelor degree in Music Education from Troy State University in Alabama where he studied with many notable individuals in the band and composing field which include: Dr. John Long, Dr. Harry Begian, Robert W. Smith, Carl Vollrath, and Ralph Ford. He performed in “The Sound of The South” marching, and symphonic bands, as well as the Troy State University String Ensemble.
While Dr. Vinciguerra began his teaching career; he earned a Masters degree in Music Education from Valdosta State University. He was the graduate assistant to the Director of The Valdosta State University Symphony Orchestra and taught at several elementary and middle schools in the area as part of the South Georgia String Project. The degree program at Valdosta State emphasized music education curriculum writing, and orchestral wind and string training.
Dr. Vinciguerra earned his Doctorate degree in Music Education from Boston University where he studied various subjects in music education that included psychology, sociology, philosophy, history of American music, and research techniques. He has studied music theory and analytical techniques with composer John Wallace, orchestration techniques, musical and cultural perspectives on the blues, and jazz arranging with composers Benjamin Beirman and Adam Schoenburg.
His dissertation entitled Lived Experiences of Secondary Instrumental Music Teachers Who Teach Students with Learning Disabilities, employed phenomenological inquiry to understand instrumental music for students with learning disabilities. His research advisors included Dr. André de Quadros (Boston University), Dr. Ryan Hourigan (Ball State University), and Dr. Ronald Kos (Boston University). The publication is located on Proquest’s Dissertations and Thesis Global and emphasizes the need for continued research in secondary music education and special education.
