Stuart Isacoff
Stuart Isacoff is a pianist, composer and writer, and the founding editor of the magazine Piano Today. Mr. Isacoff is the author of the highly acclaimed Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization (Knopf/Vintage in the U.S., with additional publishers throughout the world). A winner of the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music, he is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and many music periodicals.
Mr. Isacoff has given lectures and piano performances at numerous venues here and abroad, including The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Verbier Festival and Academy, Music@Menlo, the Portland Piano Festival, the Miami Piano Festival, The Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, The September Music Festival (Torino), the Van Cliburn Piano Institute, and others, as well as at such scientific institutions as the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Bradbury Science Museum and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
His compositions, arrangements, editions and instructional texts have been published by G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes (London), Carl Fischer, Music Sales Corp., Warner Bros. Music, and Ekay Music, Inc.
Stuart Isacoff's piano recitals often combine classical repertoire with jazz improvisation, demonstrating the threads that connect musical works created centuries and continents apart. In addition to obtaining degrees in both Philosophy and Music Composition, Mr. Isacoff was a private piano student of jazz great Sir Roland Hanna, and has taught improvisation on the college level. He currently teaches both the graduate course in the philosophy of music and a survey course in the history of Western music at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music (State University of New York), where he also serves as the music teacher for the graduate dance students.
Mr. Isacoff can be reached at:
E-mail: stuarti@goodmusicgroup.com
Tel: (914) 244-8500 x18 (Bedford Hills, NY)
"Stuart Isacoff's music-making is original and revelatory. Subtle, brilliant use of the instrument combined with a unique musical perspective create performances of uncommon depth. Isacoff reveals his beautiful interior world with every performance."
- Andre Watts