Vincent Du Beau

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Written By Elisa Janson Jones
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Vincent S. Du Beau has been the Director of Bands and Choirs at Delsea Regional High School since 2010 where he also teaches courses in Music Technology. He has been teaching at Rowan University since 2011, and has directed the University Concert Band, taught conducting, music history, and music theory. 

As a conductor, educator, and musician, Dr. Du Beau has worked extensively with concert bands, marching bands, pep bands, jazz bands, and pit orchestras. Among his notable performances are the Keystone Chamber Winds and the Keystone Wind Ensemble, and can be heard on their 2007 recording, The Composer’s Voice: The Music of Ron Nelson. That album's recording resulted in the publication of a previously unpublished Nelson manuscript, Fanfare for the Kennedy Center, with the engraving done for the recording session and the publisher by Dr. Du Beau. In addition to being an active performer, Dr. Du Beau has also spent time as a researcher and clinician. He has presented clinics on wind band programming and literature for the New Jersey Music Educators Conference (NJMEA), Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Rowan University, as well as professional learning communities (PLCs) and teacher evaluation models, and has been a contributing author for TEMPO Magazine. He has worked with many prominent composers for the wind band including Jack Stamp, Steve Bryant, Samuel Hazo, Cindy McTee, and Bruce Yurko, and wrote his Masters thesis on the music of Mark Camphouse with the aid of the composer.

In the area of music technology, Dr. Du Beau designed and teaches the advanced music technology courses at Delsea Regional. These were courses designed to compliment the existing music technology curriculum while adding the element of live audio production to the mix. All of the course content came from Dr. Du Beau's professional experience as a working musician as well as working with other music technologists.

When not involved in music education activities, Dr. Du Beau is a huge Billy Joel fan and can be found as the saxophone and keyboard player for a Billy Joel tribute band, where he has been traveling up and down the east coast for the past 15 years playing the music of the Pianoman.

Dr. Du Beau’s professional affiliations include ASCD, NAfME, NJMEA, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

 
 

  • Students First.

    As children, students are much more engaged when they can begin to understand their place in the learning. With adults, we leverage the learned experience in order to connect the learning. For children, it is my job to quickly take the temperature of the learner or group of learners and figure out the best approach for connecting learning to their lives and learned experiences. In this way, students bring their worldviews to the table and I can leverage that to help them identify where they fit in the greater context of learning the material.

    Growth.

    In the arts, and particularly in music, we start with the end in mind and thus are always pursuing a goal. For some people, the goal is attainable while for others it is akin to the dog chasing its tail. Regardless of where a student or client falls along that continuum, I always emphasize growth over completion. Each iteration of our learning and contact with material is an opportunity to achieve something new, to “level up” so to speak. While setbacks are inevitable, measurable growth that can be monitored by realistic goal setting is the most important part of the learning process. The perfect performance seems surreal and abstract for many, but incremental progress is powerful and is the evidence of growth many need in order to feel accomplished. Incremental progress that leads to sustained growth is the surest path to meeting goals and seeing a successful end, whatever that end may be.

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Elisa Janson Jones

Elisa is an entrepreneurial, accomplished, and results-driven educational executive, program creator, and developer with a strong education, leadership & management background. With a proven track record in the professional development sector as a digital education creation specialist, director, strategist, public speaker, and educator, and a product marketing specialization in passion industries.

https://elisajanson.com
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