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Bowers Program Artist

Brian Isaacs

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Peter Adamik

Violist Brian Isaacs gained international recognition as winner of the First Prize (ex aequo) of the 2025 Concours de Genève . He has received additional top prizes at major international viola competitions, as well as honors from the Verbier Festival Academy and Yale University. Born and raised in New York City, Brian attended LaGuardia High School and Yale University, where he studied with Ettore Causa and earned degrees in sociology and music. He completed his Konzertexamen (Artist Diploma) at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts under Tabea Zimmermann, with whom he continues to study at the Kronberg Academy. From 2023 to 2025, he was a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, performing regularly in the orchestra’s viola section and touring with them throughout Europe and the US. As a soloist, he has appeared with orchestras including the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Philharmonisches Orchester Gießen, and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. 

He will join CMS’s Bowers Program in fall 2027.