Gregory Sullivan Isaacs

Multi-gifted, Gregory Sullivan Isaacs is both a successful musician and business executive. He is the President and Owner of STERLING BUSINESS ADVISORS, INC. (http://www.sterlingbusinessadvisors.com) in Dallas Texas – a full service buy-side merger and acquisition company. Located in Dallas, Sterling has national reach and works for many companies seeking to expand throughout the country. He is a member of IBBA (International Business Brokers Association), TABB (Texas Association of Business Brokers), ACG (Association for Corporate Growth,)the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Sterling specializes in targeted searches for acquisition candidates for corporations and private equity groups. Mr. Isaacs brings decades of corporate marketing and marketing communications experience to business brokerage for companies ranging from ITT to small non-profits. He has served as Creative Director for in-house advertising agencies and won numerous awards. He has given numerous workshops on customer service and its key role in marketing and branding. Mr. Isaacs is also a trained professional musician who has held various musical directorships of opera and symphonic organizations – in addition to being a Pulitzer Prize nominated composer and a winner of a Peabody award for performance. His critically acclaimed opera "Henry Faust" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.(http://www.gregorysullivanisaacs.com) He is a member of the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Arrangers, and Publishers) the Conductors Guild, and the American Music Center. He holds a bachelor degree in music from the University of Miami (he completed his first two years at the University of Michigan) and a master degree in music from the prestigious music program at Indiana University.Isaacs is the composer in residence and principal conductor for The Living Opera, (http://www.thelivingopera.org) a Dallas based Opera Company that presents innovative productions featuring outstanding young singers on the cusp of a major career. Isaacs holds a Master of Music Degree from Indiana University and completed his undergraduate work at the Universities of Michigan and Miami. He has studied with such distinguished professors as Prix De Rome winner Dr. Leslie Bassett, internationally acclaimed pianist Ivan Davis, and Metropolitan opera star Martha Lipton. Although he prefers to spend his time composing, he is equally at home on the podium, having held Musical Directorships of orchestras, opera companies, and choruses. He makes his home in Lake Highlands.John Guinn of the Detroit Free Press said: “You can add Henry Faust to that short list of successful single-singer operas (Schoenberg’s Ewartung and Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine) ... it proved to be a moving experience. Isaacs’ music, cast in traditional forms, such as fugue, passacaglia, rondo and variation, is always accessible... often strikingly beautiful, as in the Ländler that closes act two.”Byron Belt nationally syndicated through Newhouse News Service called him “brilliant” and said of his recording of American music: “As a conductor, it is Isaacs’ impassioned insight and directorial skills that makes them special”