Flutist Isabel Lepanto Gleicher is a compelling and versatile musician, performing internationally throughout the United States, China, Japan and Canada. The New York Times has called her “excellent”. Isabel is a core member of new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé, a founding member of SoundMind, and an artist member of the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival. In October at Miller Theater on the Composer Portrait Series, she will join the stage with mentor Tara Helen O’Connor and percussionist Alex Lipowski to premiere Candlemas Eve by John Zorn. Isabel has held Principal Flute positions in the Banff Festival Orchestra, and in the New York Symphonic Ensemble. As a soloist she was the winner of First Prize, as well as Best Performance of the Commissioned Piece at the 2015 Myrna Brown Young Artist Competition in Texas. Feeling equally at home as an educator, Isabel is a Teaching Artist with the Bridge Arts Ensemble as well as a 2016-2017 Teaching Artist Apprentice with New York Philharmonic Education. Isabel holds a Master’s degree in Flute Performance from the Yale School of Music as well as a Master’s in Contemporary Performance from Manhattan School of music, and a Bachelor’s degree in Flute Performance from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music
