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. He studied 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.

Recently, Izaac was a participating artist in the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht, Netherlands 2025; won the Bad Krozingen Prize in the finals of the International Fanny Hensel Lied Duo Competition in Germany with opera star Jesse Linke; and performed at the 12th International Masterclass Course for Young Pianists in Radziejowice, Poland, where he received fortepiano expertise from Dmitry Ablogin and Nikolai Demidenko.

While at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Izaac won several prizes and awards, namely: First prize in 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 graduating student’ (2020); First prize in the Royal Overseas League Bach Prize on fortepiano (2022); and first prize in 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.

Izaac graduated from the class of renowned keyboardist Olga Pashchenko at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2026. His European study was awarded through the Australian Postgraduate Scholarship from the Ramsay Centre in Sydney as part of the 2024 cohort.