| Education |
| Nicholas Isaacs was born in London.
His first studies were at St. Andrew's University in Scotland where
he completed a Master's Degree in Medieval History. He gained his
Performer's Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in
London, studying with Edith Vogel, Gerald Moore, and other eminent
musicians. He obtained his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano
at Stanford University, where he studied with Adolph Baller. |
| Performing and
Teaching Experience |
Dr. Isaacs was Professor of Music
at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, where he taught
piano, chamber music, music history and analysis, theory, aesthetics,
directed both choir and orchestra, and coordinated extensive curriculum
development for the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Currently
he is active as a teacher, writer, and lecturer, solo and chamber
pianist, accompanist, clinician, and competition judge. He is also
a faculty member of Santa Clara University, a pianist and organist
at Bethany Lutheran Church in Menlo Park, and maintains a private
studio at his home in Fremont.
Dr. Isaacs has performed frequently in concert, for radio and TV,
and in festivals and recital series throughout Britain and the USA.
The recipient of an English-Speaking Union Fellowship for doctoral
music studies and an Arts Recognition Award from CAPA for services
to community music in the Mid-Peninsula, he was also listed in the
International Who's Who publications for Music and for Education. |
| At CSMA |
| Dr. Isaacs is the Music Director
at CSMA, where he has worked for over 20 years. |
| Teaching Philosophy and Approach |
| Dr. Isaacs believes it is important
to "learn about life through music, and vice versa. Unite fun
and discipline, spontaneity and method, feeling and knowledge, kids
and adults." |
| Personal |
| He is particularly interested in
mainstream classical and romantic music, two-piano literature, piano
trios, and solo voice recital repertory. |
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