Stuart Isacoff is a writer, pianist, composer, and lecturer. He has appeared on many stages, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lincoln Center, the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), and the September Music Festival (Italy). He is a regular contributor on music and art to the Wall Street Journal and a winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music, as well as founding editor of the magazine Piano Today, a position he held for nearly three decades.
He is on the faculty of the Purchase College Conservatory of Music (State University of New York), where he teaches courses in music history, classical improvisation, and research and writing. Mr. Isacoff is also the author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization. He lives in New Jersey.