Biography
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Isaac Schankler is a composer, pianist, accordionist and electronic musician living in Los Angeles. An expert on interactions between music and technology, he is the artist in residence of the Music Computation and Cognition Laboratory (MuCoaCo) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and co-director of People Inside Electronics, a concert series for live electroacoustic music. Lauded as "extraordinarily eclectic" and "masterfully composed,"* Isaac's music is inspired by improvisatory practices, indeterminate processes, spoken language, narrative, entropy and puzzles. As a frequent collaborator with other creators in the arts and sciences, he is currently a resident artist with the interdisciplinary arts organization Catalysis Projects. His recent honors include grants from Meet the Composer and the American Composers Forum, the Sadye J. Moss Composition Prize, an Associate Artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Damien Top Prize in the ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition. He has given lectures on electronic music, composition, improvisation, and theory at the University of Southern California, the California Institute of the Arts, Machine Project, and Brevard Music Center. Ensembles and venues that have featured Isaac's work include Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), the Ussachevsky Memorial Festival, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Le Centre Artistique de Piégon (France), Juventas New Music Ensemble, University of Southern California Contemporary Music Ensemble, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Midwest Composer Symposium, Threshold Electroacoustic Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Boston Conservatory, and the University of Arizona. In May 2010, Isaac completed his doctoral studies in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. He also holds degrees in composition (MM, BM) and a degree in English (BA) from the University of Michigan. |
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