Vincent D. Jones-Centeno is the conductor of the Cascadia Chamber Opera (CCO), a post he has held since the company’s inauguration in 2009. Under his baton, CCO has produced many operatic works including Mozart's Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte, Beethoven's Fidelio, Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, and the premiere of Gans-Morse's Tango of the White Gardenia. At the University of Oregon, Vincent has conducted various orchestral works and Bernstein's opera, Trouble in Tahiti. Vincent currently serves as the piano and clarinet instructor at the Astoria Conservatory of Music, the pianist for the North Coast Chorale, and the music director and organist at the historic Grace Episcopal Church. In addition to his professional music endeavours, Vincent is a licensed music and multiple-subjects teacher in the state of Oregon and teaches a classroom of 4th grade students at the Lewis and Clark Elementary School in the city of Astoria where he resides with his wife, Bereniece Jones-Centeno. Vincent holds the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from DePaul University, the Master of Arts in Teaching from Pacific University, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Music Theory from the University of Oregon.