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Isaac Page is a Toronto-based composer, conductor, and curator. In 2022, he became the resident conductor of Flute Street. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Bowling Green Opera Theatre, and at the Open Ears Festival. He has collaborated with artists such as Robert Aitken, Barbara Assiginaak, Cole Habekost, and James Campbell, among others.
His compositions explore the collisions between the familiar and the unexpected, lingering in the surreal. Disparate influences merge into one another like turning the dial across different radio stations. His music has been performed by Voces Boreales, musica intima, The Yacht Club, Laurier Singers, and Flute Street. In 2024, he participated in the Opera From Scratch workshop in Halifax, NS.
He is the founding artistic director of The Stacks, an ensemble dedicated to performing the unknown and unheard works of the 20th century.
Isaac has a intense fascination with Canadian music, and specifically the music written during the early and middle parts of the 20th-Century. He has performed and championed works by many Canadian composers, including Violet Archer, Derek Charke, and Arie Verheul van de Ven.
Isaac also makes occasional forays as a writer. His Master’s thesis focused on the orchestral music of the Canadian Centennial, and signifiers of an emerging Canadian style. He has tried on the journalistic hat, and contributed to articles for the Canadian Music Centre, RANGE Magazine, and CBC Music. He is also a poet and lyricist, having written his own texts for a few of his concert projects, and released three EPs under the singer-songwriter moniker of Isaac Hunter.
Isaac has degrees in composition from Wilfrid Laurier University, and orchestral conducting from Bowling Green State University. He was awarded a SOCAN Foundation Young Composers Award in 2017. His primary composition mentors include Gregory Lee Newsome, and Linda Catlin Smith. He has attended masterclasses and workshops led by Anna Höstman, and James Rolfe.
When not composing or performing, Isaac enjoys urban exploration as a way to discover new craft breweries and used bookstores. After years as a dedicated IPA enthusiast, he has recently become devoted to the pursuit of finding a crisp, crushable pilsner.tion text goes here
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Isaac Page is a Toronto-based composer, conductor, and curator. His compositions explore the collisions between the familiar and the unexpected, lingering in the surreal. His music has been performed by Voces Boreales, musica intima, The Yacht Club, Laurier Singers, and Flute Street. He is the founding artistic director of The Stacks, an ensemble dedicated to performing the unknown and unheard works of the 20th century.
Isaac has degrees in composition and music theory from Wilfrid Laurier University, and orchestral conducting from Bowling Green State University. His primary composition mentors include Gregory Lee Newsome, and Linda Catlin Smith. He has attended workshops with Anna Höstman, and James Rolfe.
When not composing or performing, Isaac enjoys urban exploration as a way to discover new craft breweries and used bookstores. After years as a dedicated IPA enthusiast, he has recently become devoted to the pursuit of finding a crisp, crushable pilsner.