Biography

Since the beginning of his obsession with music at 8 years old, David Isaacs has focused his attention on the guitar.  David has been playing guitar since 1988 and has performed throughout the US and Greece as a soloist, a chamber musician, and with guitar orchestras. David has released several CDs and has been featured on radio stations across the US. Much of David’s professional career has been dedicated to Chanson du Soir which is comprised of soprano Chelsea Camille and classical guitarist David Isaacs. Established in 2005, the Southern California natives have garnered national recognition as a premier guitar and voice duo and have been featured artists on concert series throughout the United States. In the summer of 2022, David had the joy of playing vihuela de mano alongside traverso virtuoso Rik Noyce as a Throne Room musician at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con Immersive Experience for the premiere of HBO’s House of The Dragon. As a pedagogue, David is a Lecturer of Music and Humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and Long Beach City College where he conducts guitar ensembles, coaches chamber groups, and guides young players on their path to and through university study. In addition, David teaches masterclasses, judges guitar competitions, and teaches at his home studio. In print, David co-wrote The Essential Classical Guitar Scale Book published by Mel Bay, writes sheet music reviews for Soundboard, and edited Classical Guitar Complete, Vol. 1, Second Edition by Scott Morris. He helped establish and operate the Long Beach Classical Guitar Society, the Long Beach Classical Guitar Academy, and the Southern California Classical Guitar Summer Workshop. During his study working on his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Claremont Graduate University under the tutelage of Jack Sanders, David performed on vihuela de mano, Baroque guitar, completed a new arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Violin Partita II, BWV 1004, and world premiered a 35-minute solo guitar work dedicated to him by Brian Madigan titled Variations and Chaconne. An avid rock music fan, David shares this passion in History of Rock courses as well.