Vincent Oakes serves as artistic director of the Chattanooga Boys Choir, a music education and performance organization which includes more than one hundred and twenty choristers, ages eight through eighteen. He is also the director of choral music and chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Baylor School, an independent college preparatory school in Chattanooga. Oakes has conducted more than one hundred honor choirs, clinics, and choral festivals, including recent honor choirs throughout the United States. Additional recent conducting engagements include the Bangkok International Choral Festival, the VOCALIZZE Choral Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, and a residency with Cámara Exaudi in Havana, Cuba, as a participant in the American Choral Directors Association’s International Conductors Exchange Program. His research interests have led to professional presentations on working with the adolescent singing voice, effective rehearsal pedagogy, and teaching musicianship and music literacy in the choral setting.