Bill Troiano retired from the Connetquot School District where he taught middle school / junior high instrumental music from 1980-2007. As a guest conductor, Mr. Troiano has conducted the Nassau Music Educators’ Association's All-County Elementary Band, the North Fork Elementary Band, the Three Village Festival Band and the Huntington Community Band. In 1994, he conducted a select tuba ensemble for the FX network morning show, Breakfast Time.  He has  also been an adjunct instructor of tuba at  C.W. Post College, Queens College, and Suffolk Community College and Five Towns College.

 Mr. Troiano has chaired the SCMEA annual HOWARD HOVEY TUBA DAY every year since 1980. He is an area coordinator for the New York City Tubachristmas at Rockefeller Center and he has served as chairman of the tuba solo and ensemble section of the NYSSMA Contest Manual.  In 1996, Indiana Press published an international reference book titled The Tuba Source Book. Mr. Troiano completed work as the author of the chapter, Recommended Basic Repertoire For The High School Tuba Student.

As a tubist, Mr. Troiano has appeared as a guest soloist with various ensembles in the state. He was a member of the Guy Lombardo Orchestra from 1976-78 where he toured with the band, played New Years Eve shows at the Waldorf Astoria  and played musicals at the Jones Beach Theater. With that band, he also played at former President Jimmy Carter’s Innaugural Ball. Mr. Troiano also performed with Dr. Harvey Phillips, renowned tuba virtuoso, in Carnegie Hall and at the Mozart Festival in Vermont.  As a free-lance tubist,, he has performed with virtually every professional ensemble on Long Island. Mr. Troiano performs regularly as a member of the Atlantic Wind Symphony,  the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Brass Band and the Long Island Tuba Quartet.

Mr. Troiano lives in Lake Grove with his wife, two of three children,  a dog and three tubas.

Besides teaching at Five Towns college, at Chaminade High School, maintaining a private tuba studio, and performing on the tuba, Bill has been conducting professional development workshops for teachers and he has been presenting tuba/brass clinics at various locations.