Rob Vincs (vince) is a musician, composer and academic specialising in improvised, interactive and electro-acoustic music making.

He is well known for his high velocity and textural approach drawn from Afro-American Jazz, ECM, experimental, electronic and world genres.

Rob privileges, emotive, deep psyche and transcendent experience in his music that comes from immersion and the embrace of natural elements and other-worldly access granted through non human generative processes.

Rob is currently available for commissioning and collaboration

Rob is based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) and acknowledges the traditional land of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurring of the Kulin Nation. He tours extensively throughout the world

Having graduated with his Ph.D in 2003 entitled African Heart, Eastern Mind; the Transcendent Experience in Improvised Music Rob has pursued the theorisation of improvised music as a distinct human process of expression that links ancient music making with contemporary generative practices in music. As an academic, he has published scholarly book chapters, journal articles and conference presentations. Rob has also supervised over twelve PhD students and over twenty Masters by Research Students into completion. Rob was Head of Jazz and Improvisation at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne from 2015-2021 and has had a thirty year career as a teacher/lecturer in improvised music with that institution (formerly Victorian College of the Arts).

In 1988, Vincs received the B.P. Quiet Achiever Award for his early work in Artificial Intelligence in Improvised Music. He continued his creative exploration by developing and improving his use of interactive technology. He pursued PG DIP studies focused on "Artificial Intelligence and Technology in Improvised Music Performance," which earned him recognition.

Vincs has collaborated with many leading Australian and international contemporary artists including: Barney McAll, Polymorphic Orchestra, David Jones, Simon DeHaan, Judy Jacques, Chloë Sobeck, Vijay Thillaimuthu, Ronny Ferella, Sunny Kim, Varden Ovsepian (US), Kenneth Nash (US) Raff Sudan (Swiss) Hyun Suk Lee (Sth Korea), Melbourne Ballet Company, Seoul Contemporary Dance Theatre, Kim Vincs, and Dianne Reid to name a few.

Vincs has performed in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia in a variety of performance contexts specializing in music for contemporary dance. In 2017 he was invited to tour and perform with the International Society of Improvised Music in their 10th anniversary celebration in South Korea with workshops and special performance at the SORI Festival.