Dave Isaacs
Over the past twenty years Dave Isaacs has earned himself a reputation as a master musician, a talented composer and songwriter, and an inventive and engaging teacher. He has released six independent CDs and performed in venues large and small from dive bars to concert halls across the eastern and central US.
He holds degrees in guitar performance from New York's Manhattan School of Music (M.Mus. 1993) and the City University of New York (B. Mus. magna cum laude, 1991). He has studied with and performed for some of the most prominent artists in the classical guitar world, including Segovia protege Oscar Ghiglia, composer/virtuoso Benjamin Verdery, and international concert artist and founder of the guitar program at the Juilliard School, Sharon Isbin. When repetitive strain injury derailed his plans for a career as a classical recitalist, Dave's lifelong love of roots music - the blues, folk, country, jazz, and rock & roll - led back to songwriting, improvisation, and the electric guitar. Over the course of his six releases as an independent artist Dave has explored modern country-rock, literate singer-songwriter folk, ambient jazz, improvisational blues-rock, and Southern soul. The depth of this musical diversity combined with rigorous formal schooling and over twenty years of teaching private students offer him a rare and exceptionally wide perspective as an educator. In addition, his experience in overcoming repetitive strain injuries led to a comprehensive knowledge of the biomechanics of guitar playing and the development of the concept of "effortless guitar".
Dave currently maintains a private teaching studio at Grand Staff Music in Franklin, Tennessee and teaches piano, mandolin and voice in addition to guitar. He teaches music theory and fundamentals classes at the Art Institute of Tennessee - Nashville, commercial studio guitar at Tennessee State University and is a member of the workshop faculty of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).
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615-530-5785
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Random Music Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 128201
Nashville, TN 37212
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