Isaac Schankler is a composer, pianist, accordionist and electronic musician whose work combines traditional notation with improvisatory practices and technologically driven processes. His work has been performed by the International Computer Music Conference, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Le Centre Artistique de Piégon (France), Juventas New Music Ensemble, USC Contemporary Music Ensemble, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Music Center, Boston Conservatory, and others.
His chamber opera Light and Power with libretto by Jillian Burcar will be premiered by the Boston Opera Collaborative and Juventas New Music Ensemble in Spring 2011. Honors include USC’s 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.
Schankler is a research consultant for 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. He received his doctorate in music composition from the USC Thornton School of Music, and holds degrees in music composition and English from the University of Michigan.
