Composer and lecturer, Russell Steinberg is active in music education as a conductor, teacher, and author. He is the Music Director for the Stephen Wise Music Academy and he regularly lectures on music composition and music listening at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a composer, he is former recipient of an ASCAP Young Composers Grant, Composers Inc. and NACUSA prizes and MacDowell and Aspen Fellowships and first prize in the New World String Quartet competition.