Herbert A. Deutsch has had an eclectic career as a composer, author, educator and marketing consultant. Professor Emeritus of Music and, until September. 2001. Chairman of the Music Department at Hofstra University 1973-79 and 1995-2001. He directed the Music Business Program, the Electronic Music and Recording Studios and taught composition and multimedia. A composer of music in various media, his work has been widely performed and commissioned works have been featured at national and regional conferences of The Music Educators National Conference, Small Computers and the Arts Network, the Society for Electro acoustic Music in the United States and other organizations. In 1972, he co-founded the Long Island Composers Alliance (LICA), has served several times as its President and is currently its Archivist. In 1973 he created the first "Music By and For Students" concert for LICA. He is a recipient of numerous Meet The Composer and ASCAP Awards. At Hofstra he composed the scores for six Shakespeare Festival productions, including two while still an undergraduate student. During his forty-six year teaching career at Hofstra, he founded the Jazz Ensemble, the Electronic Music Studios, The New Music Ensemble and created the B.S. Degree programs in Composition/Theory, Jazz & Commercial Music and Music Merchandising. He received the George Estabrook Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996 and the Hofstra Alumni Achievement Award in 2001. In his honor the Music Department has established the Herbert Deutsch Award for honors in Music Education.

His interest in electronic music led him to collaborate, in 1964, with Robert A. Moog on the development of the first Moog Synthesizer and, in September of 1965, his "New York Improvisation Quartet" gave a Town Hall, New York concert which included the Moog's first live public performance. In the summer of 1969 his quartet performed an all-Moog ensemble concert at The Museum of Modern Art "Jazz in the Garden". His multimedia opera, DORIAN (based on the Oscar Wilde novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray") received its world premiere performances by the Hofstra Opera Theater in February 1995.

Active in The NY State School Music Association since 1970, he is a founding member of NYSSMA's Music Technology Committee. He is also a member and judge of NYSSMA's Composition and Improvisation Committee. He is a regular clinician in composition sessions at NYSSMA's All-State Conference and an all-state brass and jazz adjudicator for that organization.

He was Director of Marketing and Sales at Moog Music from 1979-83, and has been a marketing and development consultant to Roland Corporation, Multivox Music, Norlin Industries, Passport Designs Software and Jim Henson's Muppets. He is the author of Synthesis (Alfred Publishing Co.), in its second edition and published in Japanese and Korean, Electroacoustic Music; Its First Century (CPP/Belwin) and Teach yourself Piano (Karamar Publications). He is active in the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Small Computers in the Arts Network, and was co-founder, Educational Consultant and feature writer for The Music & Computer Educator and a reviewer for The American Record Guide. His CD Woman in Darkness was released in September, 1999 on 4Tay Records, his String Quartet Preamble & Fugue performed by the Meridian String Quartet appears on Capstone Records and his new CD From Moog To Mac was released in June 2007. He was featured on a History Channel production on the First Moog Synthesizer and he appears and has music credits in the 2004 film MOOG. In September, 2007 he received the Moog Music Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to electronic music.