Vitale played trumpet in the 2010 Broadway show Come Fly Away[1] with a 19-piece big band playing the music of Frank Sinatra and dancing of the Twyla Tharp Dance Troup. Vitale recorded his first album "Vitalogy" and two following CDs "Full Circle" and "Slow Groove" for Gut String Records. He has led his quartet/quintet on tours of Europe, Japan, Korea, the Middle East, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Worked with Frank Wess, Jack Bruce and the Chris Byars Octet. Currently, working in the NYC metropolitan area and traveling as an artist.
Activism
From July 2012, Vitale was a founding member of the Save Sibelius campaign, established by Derek Williams to future-proof the Sibelius music scorewriter application after Avid Tech had fired all but three of the Sibelius development team and closed their London office to relocate jobs offshore to Ukraine and California.[3][4]
Amid subsequent collapsing share performance that involved Avid's delisting by NASDAQ,[5] a 11,590 signature Change.org petition "chris-gahagan-senior-vice-president-of-products-sell-sibelius" to try to persuade Avid Tech to divest itself of Sibelius was presented in person to Sibelius Software executives from Avid invited to an extraordinary meeting held by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) at its London offices.[6]
The campaign ended in February 2013, after the Yamaha Corporation subsidiary Steinberg announced they had hired the majority of the former Sibelius development team to develop a rival scorewriter application, Dorico.[7][8][9]
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