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.