Ms. Brenda Vincent-Clark

Canadian born violinist, Brenda Vincent, began violin study at age 10. She completed Toronto Conservatory exams with Honors, during high-school, then went on to study at The Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California and Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Violin in 1971 and won the Israel Dorman Award for Outstanding Violinist.

Ms. Vincent has resided and freelanced in New York City since 1979, where she enjoys playing a variety of musical idioms and styles in chamber music, symphony orchestra, opera, ballet, Broadway shows, jazz, Latin, rock/pop, and Contemporary Classical Music. Ms. Vincent has been awarded a Jazz Special Projects Grant (1985) and Jazz Fellowship (1988) from the National Endowment for the Arts to transcribe the recorded works of the legendary American jazz violinist, Stuff Smith. She is currently developing a Beginning Violin Method that integrates traditional Western European music with popular American styles of music and improvisation.