Jorge Isaac

Jorge Isaac (b. 1974, Caracas) completed his professional training under the tutelage of [Walter van Hauwe] http://www.blokfluit.org at the Amsterdam Conservatory in 2000. In 2002 received his master degree on contemporary performance & live electronics at the same institution. In 2006 he was appointed as Recorder Professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory, succeeding the worldwide recorder-icon Walter van Hauwe.

Isaac’s specialist field is in contemporary music and the use of live electronics. He has won prizes at renowned contemporary music competitions such as the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2001 (including the special prize "best use of electronics") in The Netherlands and the Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Poland (2001). In 2004 he was awarded the first prize at the Jur Naessens Music Award in Amsterdam with his multimedia production "Mensa Secunda". In 2007 he received an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria for his work "Marionette".

As a soloist, Isaac has given a great variety of performances and masterclasses in The Netherlands, Germany, England, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Mexico and Venezuela.

He has participated in varied recording productions, such as radio broadcasts for the Hessen’s radio (HR4) in Germany, the company Shell (Mexico/ The Netherlands), Teldec (Germany), blockflute samplers in the USA, and his own music together with pianist/composer Elik Alvarez (Los Angeles). He has participated in several International Music Festivals such as Hessen’s Festival (Korbach-Germany), Second International Blockflute Festival (Amsterdam), Festival Internacional de Puebla (Mexico), Ultima Festival (Oslo), Music for Galway (Ireland), Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam), Spazio Musica (Cagliari), International Youth Music Forum (Kiev), Time of Music Festival (Finland), Festival ArteScienza (Rome).

Jorge Isaac has performed together with a.o. the Dutch ensembles - ASKO & Schoenberg, the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, The National Dutch Ballet, The Dutch Opera, regisseur Pierre Audi, blockflutist Walter van Hauwe, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, composers György Ligeti, Roderik de Man, Jukka Tiensuu; and the conductor Reinbert de Leeuw.

He is at the moment involved with solo recitals, multimedia research projects, and in the production of multidisciplinary performances together with Visisonor Media Productions. Among his recent works: Mensa Secunda (2004, interdisciplinary performance), Voix égales (2005, research towards the "Integral Music Performance"), OMONIA (2005/06, one-man-art performance), Sensorial Acts (2006, research project towards the use of smells and temperature changes in music performance), Marionette (2006-07, multimedia concert) and PANOPTICON (2007, interdisciplinary performance).