Charles Vincent Burwell

Composer/Producer/Educator/Performer

Charles Vincent Burwell has long felt that diversity and creative identity were instrumental in the fashioning of a well-rounded artist. A San Francisco, CA native, Vincent began his musical training with the piano at age seven. By the onset of his teenage years, he had learned to play most brass instruments and was beginning to work on compositions. A Congressional Scholar in Leadership, Vincent received a B.S. in Choral/Vocal Music Education from Florida A & M University. It was in college that he would nurture his studies in theater, dance, voice, and ethnomusicology. There he performed as a soloist with the FAMU Concert Choir, a dancer with Orchesis Contemporary Dance Theater as a well as an accompanist for the Florida Sate University Department of Dance.