Isabel has been singing all her life — first choir, then opera, now jazz. A timely introduction to the Brooklyn jazz scene on the eve of a surprise pandemic led her to pursue a second career as a professional vocalist. Isabel is very grateful to have the immense privilege of studying songwriting and jazz vocal expression with two of the world’s greatest living jazz artists, the Grammy award-winning Cassandra Wilson and world-famous diva Ann Hampton Callaway.
Isabel studies vocal technique with Wendy Gilles, a featured vocalist with the renowned Gil Evans Project.
Isabel studied operatic voice for over a decade with Charles Kellis and the late Vincent LaSelva, voice faculty at the Juilliard School. She also sang for four years in a 60-person Renaissance and Baroque mixed choir while studying literature at Harvard University, taking an active role in the management of the choir and as an alumni board member. Isabel serves on the board of directors of Opera on Tap, making the drama, beauty, and exhilaration of opera truly accessible to new communities everywhere. You may have heard her singing at The Keep, Turnmill, Basik, and the Coby Club in NYC.