About Vincent

Beginnings:

I started my piano technology career in 1972, when I enrolled in the Empire School of Piano Tuning, and graduated in January of 1973. I then apprenticed with Kenneth Webster, President of a New Jersey Chapter of the Piano Technicians Guild and immediately began working at AJ Music, a Baldwin dealer in Howell, NJ. I moved to Provo, Utah in August 1974 to finish up my music degree. I did a short apprenticeship with Lynn Hansen, head piano technician at BYU. In 1978 I began a full time career in piano tuning and repair, working for Wakefield’s, a Baldwin dealer.

Credentials:

  • 1978 – Passed all three tests to become a Craftsman member of the Piano Technicians Guild, now Registered Piano Technician (RPT) in the Piano Technicians Guild
  • 1980 to 1986 – Intstitute Committee Member for Intermountain Conventions and Seminars
  • 1991 – Southeast Regional Institute Director
  • 1996 – Recommended for membership in the Master Piano Technicians of America
  • 1998 – Institute Head for the Pacific Northwest Regional Convention
  • 1999 – CAUT Committee Chairman of Piano Technicians Guild
  • 2000 – Completed Steinway Factory training
  • 2000 and 2001 – Member of the Institute Committee for the Piano Technicians Guild Annual Convention
  • 2003 to present – Technical editor of the Master Piano Technicians Journal

Additional training:

  • 1983 – Factory trained at the Baldwin grand piano factory in Conway, Arkansas.
  • 1988 – Trained with Evan Tublitz, Premiere Piano, Syracuse, New York
  • 1992 – First week of training at the Theodore Steinway School, Steinway Factory
  • 1993 – Yamaha Disklavier School
  • 1997 – Second week at the Theo Steinway School, Steinway Factory – voicing
  • 1997 – Certified Wapin bridge pin installer
  • 1998 – Third week at the Steinway School at the factory – dampers
  • 2000 – Fourth and final week at the Steinway factory – concert prep
  • 2000 – David Stanwood Touchweight Design Certified
  • 2002 – Week long training at the Shigeru Kawai factory – concert prep

Awards:

  • 2006 – Received Member of Note award from the Piano Technicians Guild
  • 2008 – Received Masters Degree from the Master Piano Technicians of America

Instructor at Piano Technicians Conventions:

  • Piano Technicians Guild Annual Convention, 1990, 2000, 2008, 2009
  • 1995 Intermountain spring seminar
  • 2008 California State Convention
  • Master Piano Technicians Convention, 2002, 2003, 2004

Published in:

  • The Piano Technicians Journal
  • Master Piano Technicians Journal

Schools and universities on staff:

  • 1990 to 1992 –Memphis State University
  • 1992 to 2002 –Brigham Young University, 1997 to 2002, Head Piano Technician
  • 2002 to present –University of Utah

Schools and universities on contract as needed:

  • Since 1998, Ricks College, now BYU-Idaho, Rexburg, Idaho
  • Utah State University
  • Snow College
  • Southern Utah University
  • Utah Valley State College, now Utah Valley University
  • Westminster College
  • Weber State

Pianists (to name some):

  • The 5 Browns
  • Vladimir Feltsman
  • American Piano Quartet
  • Abby Simon
  • Dan Fletcher
  • Billy Taylor
  • Denny Zeitland
  • Grant Johansen
  • Soojin Ahn
  • Murray Periah
  • Leon Fleischer
  • James O’Neil Minor
  • Michael Barrett
  • George Winston
  • Jon Kimura-Parker

Piano Teachers:

  • Irene Peery-Fox
  • Susan Duhlmeier
  • Lenora Brown
  • Bonnie Gritton
  • Heather Conner
  • Barbara Allen
  • Robert Smith
  • Reid Nibley
  • Marlene Bachelder

Dealerships (contract work only) presently working for:

  • Piano Gallery, Orem UT; Yamaha
  • Daynes Music, SLC; Steinway

Dealerships I contracted with in the past:

  • Provo Music; Knabe, Everett
  • Bert Murdock Music, Orem UT; Lowry
  • Riverton Music, Salt Lake; Baldwin
  • Shuff’s Music, Germantown, TN; Kawai,
  • Amro Music, Memphis, TN; Steinway
  • Baldassin’s Performance Piano, North Salt Lake; Fazioli
  • Summerhay’s Music, SLC and Orem; Kawai
  • Keith Jorgensen’s, SLC and Orem; Yamaha
  • Heritage Music, Orem; Pramberger
  • Wakefield’s, Provo; Baldwin
  • AJ Music, Howell, NJ; Baldwin
  • William’s Music, Provo, UT; various
  • Bill Harris Music, Provo, UT; Estonia

Recording Studios:

  • BYU Motion Picture Studio
  • Covenant Recording
  • Bart Schaerrer

Music Festivals:

  • Moab Music Festival from 1995 to 2001
  • Teton Music Festival in 2008
  • Sundance Music Festival for several years
  • Deer Valley Festival for several years
  • Suzuki Institute
  • Pearl Awards

Symphonies:

  • Utah Symphony

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An Award.

Registered Piano Technician