Vincent D. Jones-Centeno is the music director and conductor of Cascadia Chamber Opera, a post he has held since the summer of 2009. In addition, he is also the Music and Artistic Director of the North Coast Chorale in Astoria.
Dr. Centeno has conducted Brahms' Piano Concerto no. 2, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Ibert's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Mozart's Così fan tutte, and Don Giovanni, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, Beethoven's Fidelio, Donizetti's Don Pasquale and the world premiere of Gans-Morse's The Tango of the White Gardenia among several others.
Dr. Centeno received the Master of Music in Piano Performance from DePaul University in Chicago under the tutelage of Mary Sauer, principal pianist of the Chicago Sy