Isaac Schankler is a composer, pianist, accordionist and electronic musician living in Los Angeles. He is the current artist in residence of the Music Computation and Cognition laboratory (MuCoaCo) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and co-director of People Inside Electronics, a concert series dedicated to live electroacoustic music. His recent honors include the Sadye J. Moss Composition Prize, an Associate Artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Damien Top Prize in the ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition, and a grant from Meet the Composer. Venues and ensembles that have featured Isaac’s work include the HEAR NOW Festival, the Ussachevsky Memorial Festival, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Le Centre Artistique de Piégon (France), Juventas New Music Ensemble, University of Southern California Contemporary Music Ensemble, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Midwest Composer Symposium, Threshold Electroacoustic Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Boston Conservatory, and the University of Arizona, where he was a guest composer at the Global Perspectives symposium.  He holds degrees in composition from the USC Thornton School of Music (DMA) and the University of Michigan (MM, BM).