Gregory Sullivan Isaacs is a writer, music critic, conductor, composer, orchestrator, and voice teacher. He is the Music Director and conductor for the Elan International Music Festival in Dallas. He is also a pianist, organist, and singer. He has held numerous musical directorships with, symphonies, choral organizations, operas companies, and large churches throughout the country. He is currently the senior classical music writer for Theater Jones, a popular online arts journal. He writes for other publications such as the Fort Worth Star Telegram, The Dallas Voice, and Art+Culture Texas magazine.
He is a Pulitzer Prize nominated composer and a winner of a Peabody award for performance as well as an ASCAP award for his commitment to American Music. His critically acclaimed three act opera for tenor and piano – “Henry Faust”, a segment of which can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fsNi2D16-o
It was produced for public television and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a member of the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Arrangers, and Publishers). He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy for High School. He holds a bachelor degree in music from the University of Miami (he completed his first two years at the University of Michigan) and a master degree in music from the prestigious music program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Outstanding teachers include: Thor Johnson, Martha Lipton, Ivan Davis, Frederick Fennell, Leslie Bassett, Tibor Kozma, Gustav Meier (as an auditor at U of M), and Pierre Bernac.
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