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Vincent earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in composition from the University of Montreal. In 2014, he completed a graduate certificate in film scoring at the University of Southern California, where his teachers included Bruce Broughton, Christopher Young, Jack Smalley and Garry Schyman.

Vincent has scored numerous short-films and has won nine awards from the SOCAN Foundation for young audio-visual composers, between 2011 and 2016.

As an orchestrator, he has collaborated with various composers such as Darren Fung (The Great Human Odyssey, Equus: Story of the Horse, Gun Runner, ...), FM Le Sieur (Menteur), Ray Fabi (Gaza) and others. He also worked on non-film projects, most recently with composer Wei Du on the Cirque du Soleil show Hangzhou - Land Of Fantasy.

Since 2018, Vincent lectures on film music and music technology at the University of Montreal and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Awards

  • 2016 Crown of laurel

    Best original score : Fiction (3rd place)
    SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-Visual Composers

    Crown of laurel

    Best Musical Theme (3rd place)
    SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-Visual Composers

  • 2015 Crown of laurel

    Best original score : Fiction (2nd place)
    2011 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-visual Composers

    Crown of laurel

    Best Original Score: Animated (1st Place)
    SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-visual Composers

  • 2014 Crown of laurel

    Best Original Score: Fiction (1st place)
    SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-visual Composers

    Crown of laurel

    Best Original Score: Animated (1st place)
    SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-visual Composers

    Crown of laurel

    Harry Warren Endowed Scholarship for Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television (2nd place)
    $4,000 scholarship

  • 2013 Crown of laurel

    Jean-Marie-Benoît Prize
    $2,000 scholarship

    Crown of laurel

    Best Original Score: Animated (1st Place)
    SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-visual Composers

  • 2011 Crown of laurel

    Best original score : Fiction (1st place)
    2011 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-visual Composers

    Crown of laurel

    $25,000 scholarship
    Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC)