Anthony Cincotta Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Administrator of Music Operations

Anthony S. Cincotta II is an internationally recognized music educator and saxophonist whose playing has taken him across the United States and abroad. He made his professional debut in 2014 premiering Cuban-American composer, Evan Cadavieco’s, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble with the Berklee College of Music Wind Ensemble. In 2019 he won the James Madison University’s Concerto Competition, playing Alexander Glazunov’s Concerto in E-flat major for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 109.

 

A champion of new music, with over forty world premieres to his name, Dr. Cincotta has performed at the World Saxophone Congress, the International Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, North American Saxophone Alliance Regional Conferences, the Virginia Music Educators Association Conference, the New England Saxophone Symposium, the Massachusetts Music Educators Association Conference, and the 2022 College Music Society’s National Conference.

 

Dr. Cincotta is also a highly accomplished teacher. He currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music & Administrator of Music Operations at Washington & Lee University. His private students have won top placements in regional, state, and national honor bands, while his higher education students have placed and won the Petrichor Music Competition, the Charleston International Competition, MTNA, the North American Saxophone Alliance National Competition, and the Vandoren Emerging Artists Competition. They have also gone on to successfully audition for some of the country’s most prestigious college music programs, including the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Hartford, Indiana University, James Madison University, and others.