David Epstein (conductor)

David Mayer Epstein (October 3, 1930 – January 15, 2002 ) was an American composer, conductor, and music scientist who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was the author of Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance, a work on the neurological basis for various elements of music theory, and co-editor of Beauty and the Brain: Biological Aspects of Aesthetics.