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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 That album's recording resulted in the publication of a previously unpublished Nelson manuscript, Fanfare for the Kennedy Center, with the engraving done for the recording session and the publisher by Dr.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.