W. Lee Vinson

W. Lee Vinson joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as section percussionist in 2007. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and has done graduate study at Boston University. While at Eastman, Mr. Vinson performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and from 2000 to 2004 served as a member of the United States Navy Band in Washington, DC. He has also attended summer music festivals at Interlochen, Tanglewood, and the Brevard Music Center. His teachers have included John H. Beck and Tim Genis.

An active educator, Mr. Vinson is a teaching associate at Boston University and for the last two years has served on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He is active within the Percussive Arts Society as a member of the Symphonic Committee and as Vice President of the Massachusetts Chapter. As a clinician and guest artist he has appeared at colleges and universities across the United States including the Eastman School of Music, Florida State University, the Boston Conservatory, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Nebraska. He has also performed at the PAS Day of Percussion in both Maryland and Massachusetts, and in the Fall of 2009 was a featured symphonic clinician at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana.

An avid vintage and antique snare drum collector and historian, Mr. Vinson has contributed articles to Not So Modern Drummer Magazine. His personal snare drum collection currently numbers approximately 50 instruments, more than one third of which were manufactured in Boston dating from the 1870s through the 1930s.

W. Lee Vinson is a performing artist and clinician for Zildjian cymbals, Remodrumheads, and Malletech. He endorses Malletech instruments and mallets. More information is available at www.LeeVinson.com.