Australian pianist and fortepianist Izaac Masters was born in Perth, Western Australia. He took an interest in classical music from an early age and began studying piano at age 7.

By 2023, Izaac completed a Bachelor of Music with first class Honours, and a Master of Arts at the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, studying fortepiano with Dr Geoffrey Lancaster AO under the Simon Lee Foundation Scholarship. His research dissertation’s included insights into performance and interpretation of music performed on Viennese and English pianos from the nineteenth century.

While at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Izaac won several prizes and awards, namely: The Chopin Prize at WAAPA in 2018; first prize in the Warana Concerto Prize in 2019 (WAAPA); The Richard Gill Award for the ‘most outstanding performance by a graduand’ (2020); The Royal Overseas League Bach Prize on fortepiano (2022); and the ROSL Art Song Prize (2022). Additionally, Izaac has performance experience alongside the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Perth Symphony Orchestra and the WAAPA Symphony Orchestra.

In recent years, Izaac was a participating artist in the 2025 Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht, Netherlands; the 2022 Forte/Piano Summer Academy at Cornell University, New York; and the 2025 12th International Masterclass Course for Young Pianists in Radziejowice, Poland, where he received fortepiano expertise from Dmitry Ablogin.

He currently studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Olga Pashchenko and was recently awarded an Australian Postgraduate Scholarship from the Ramsay Centre in Sydney as part of the 2024 cohort. In the pursuit of developing as an artist, Izaac continues to explore the richness of the historical piano world.