James Vincent
BA (Music)
James Vincent is a music educator, adjudicator, audio engineer, entrepreneur, composer, DJ and performer for over 30 years.
He completed his Bachelor of Arts (Music) majoring in classical piano in 1996 and double majoring in French Horn.
Founder and director of the Music School, Vincent Music in West End (Est. 2018), he is also the founder and director of Home Piano Teacher (Est. 2013).
Previously as Head of the Piano Department and Board Member at Browning Street Studios James established the Instrumental Teaching Training and Intern program which still runs today at Vincent Music. James is is acting coordinator, writes curriculum in piano pedagogy and teaches and supervises as a mentor practical piano teaching methods.
He has over 10 years experience in sound for video games including composing, sound design, dialogue production and foley recording. As a full time audio engineer for both Sega Studios Australia and The Creative Assembly he has honed his production and mixing skills under the audio direction of internationally acclaimed and BAFTA winner, Jeff Van Dyck. He has scored hours of music for the Video Game "Medieval 2" - Total War Series and the Kingdoms Expansion Packs. Other games that include his music are "Spartan Total Warrior", "Sonic the Hedgehog", "Stormrise" and "Ski Safari 3". His sound effects and foley work are included in the 2012 Olympic Games.
James continues to work as a composer and producer, releasing a new track each fortnight on most digital platforms under his name.
He is known for his mixing and engineering work on Impossible Odds Q Song award winning track “ Soul of a Troubadour” in 2010. Other work spans albums such as "Keep it Raw" (EMR) "Against all Odds" (Impossible Odds) "2Hard" (Madboots) and for solo artists Kaylah Truth and Black Prince.
As a performer he has worked as Scratch DJ and Piano player in numerous bands including "Plasticwoodenfruit" which was an unearth winner in 1998 for the Triple J Brisbane Unearthed Competition. Other performing highlights were for the bands "Post Office Syndrome", "Jimmy Styles and the Easy Company", "The Serenity", "Impossible Odds" and "Madboots" whom he currently performs with.
His beat making and music production has been in used in releases such as "Against all Odds" (Impossible Odds), "Full" (Plasticwoodenfruit), "Moist Wreckers" (Self Titled) and "Made out of Motion" (Mattriks and the Book of Kin).
His cuts and scratch DJ work have been featured on "Keep it Raw" (EMR), "Spit and Gristle" (Billy Bunks), "Against all Odds" (Impossible Odds), "The Trouble EP" (The Serenity) and"Full" (Plasticwoodenfruit).
Instrument: Piano/Production/Songwriting/Composition