Biography

Dr. Vince Dominguez is an award-winning performer, educator, and creative based in Providence, RI, endorsed by Henri SELMER Paris clarinets. An in-demand music educator and clinician across the country, he serves as woodwind faculty at The Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School. Dominguez maintains an active performance career, performing as a solo artist, chamber musician and guest artist with orchestras across New England, most recently appearing as principal clarinet with the International Pride Orchestra in New York City.

Since 2009, Vince has performed and presented at conferences with the International Clarinet Association (ICA), the Arizona Music Educators Association, the College Music Society, and the North American Saxophone Alliance and the SPHINX Organization. Most notably, Dr. Dominguez was featured in August 2024 as a Headlining Artist at the ICA’s ClarinetFest conference in Dublin, Ireland as his internationally acclaimed drag persona, Claire Annette.

Outside of music education and performance, Vince has ten years of experience in administration, holding communications, marketing and creative leadership roles with non-profit organizations including the Merit School of Music, Ravinia Festival, Lexington Philharmonic, and Quinteto Latino, a chamber music ensemble dedicated to addressing racial and economic disparities within the classical music field by championing past, present, and future contributions by Latino composers and musicians.

Vince completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Arizona State University in April 2020, where he held one of two competitive graduate teaching assistantships. His project featured a performance guide and three commissioned works for clarinet by acclaimed Mexican composers Victor Ibarra, Hilda Paredes, and Juan Trigos, each underscoring recent sociopolitical issues across the US and Latin America. He is passionate about amplifying queer & BIPOC voices and fighting for causes that seek to dismantle barriers in classical music. 

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