Upon completing his Master’s Degree in clarinet performance at McGill University, Tony moved to New York City in 2013 to study clarinet at Queens College with Charles Neidich. Shortly after, he started performing and teaching in and around New York with various groups.

As a clarinet teacher of students from various economic backgrounds, Tony felt the need to learn some basic repairs to get through some lessons. He took a couple of lessons from his technician, Melanie Wong, who was then working out of the Buffet Showroom (Manhattan, NY). After Melanie left New York for her new life out in the West, Tony started looking for a new repair person for his clarinets.

In 2019, one of the people he met on this journey was Dan Sagi, the head repair technician at O. DiBella Music. At the time, O. DiBella was looking for someone to train to grow their repair team, and soon, Tony started training under Dan in clarinet, flute, and saxophone repair. Tony cut his teeth on countless number of rental instruments, and eventually moved onto repairing high-end instruments for clients as well. During his third year at O. DiBella, Tony started commuting to Philadelphia every week to study repair with Mark Jacobi.

In 2021, Tony got a job offer from Conn-Selmer to become one of the Master Technicians in the South Facility servicing in-house made and imported instruments. In 2022 Tony started the job in Elkhart, commuting from South Bend. In 2023 Tony opened up the LLC for Park Woodwind Services in the spare bedroom of his rental house and started working on clarinets mailed to him from other cities. While living in South Bend, Tony also received flute repair teachings from Sue Shockey, an industry veteran and an artist of Woodwinds repair.

In 2023, Tony started working at Fox Products in the Oboe Finishing Department, where he key-fitted, padded, and prepared oboes for inspection. He learned from Linda Fox, Grant Louvier, and David Diaz Febo.

Tony continued to also repair clarinets at home, and eventually, left Fox in 2024 to focus on this endeavor. And this time, the time felt right to open a New York City repair shop, and Tony moved back to the Big Apple at the end of September of 2024. On October 1st 2024, Park Woodwind Services in Long Island City took in his first client.

In 2025 Tony traveled to Bamberg, Germany to be trained by Jochen Seggelke of Seggelke Klarinetten and his team for two weeks.

This year, on October 1st, 2026, Park Woodwind Services as most people know as will be turning two years old! Thank you all for your interest, support, and business. Park Woodwind Services only exists because of you.