Isaac Schanno Johnson, Musical Director

Isaac Schanno Johnson is a composer, conductor, and educator originally from the DC area. He has written contemporary classical music (both instrumental and choral), electronic music, music for films, music for video games, and educational music. He sings, plays guitar, piano, cello, and melodica and writes a lot of his music out by hand while sitting at the piano (ew how old fashioned!). He graduated with a Bachelor’s of Music from Berklee College of Music, double majoring in film scoring and composition, minoring in psychology, English literature, video game scoring, and conducting. He also holds a Master’s of Science in Education from Mount Saint Mary’s University. He’s currently completing a Master’s of Music in orchestral conducting from California State University at Northridge. Isaac works in Los Angeles as a composer, conductor, music director, and music educator. He has served as music director for over 30 musical productions from Rent to Newsies to Lizzie to Matilda; ranging from student productions with elementary and middle school students, to high school student shows, to adult shows. He currently teaches general music, choir, and music technology with Education Through Music Los Angeles and orchestra, violin, cello, and piano with the Los Angeles Music and Art School. He also works at a church as the music director where he conducts the choir and is currently composing a second cantata to be premiered on Christmas Eve. His first cantata “Father, Into Your Hands” was premiered earlier this year. In his free time he enjoys reading fantasy novels, listening to comedy podcasts, and learning Spanish and French.