From Brisbane, Australia, Isobel holds a BMus in Piano Performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and is currently studying a Master’s of Music at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.
Her piano mentors have included Clemens Leske, Adam Swayne and Simon Tedeschi.

Accepted in to the Conservatorium at the age of 14, Isobel was one of the youngest ever graduates from the University of Sydney.

During her studies, Isobel was awarded in competitions, music prizes and scholarships including the Queensland Young Pianist’s award, which she won in 2019, the Bangkok International Piano Competition, the Hon. James Thomas Walker Prize, the inaugural Doug and Margot Anthony (BUDD) Music Grant, the Gilliam Prize, the Anne Boyd AM Prize, and the Vice Chancellor’s Global Mobility Scholarship.

Isobel has featured as radio host on 2MBS Fine Music Sydney’s Jazz After Hours and Jazz Interaction programs. Her performances have been featured on ABC Classic Breakfast and 2MBS Fine Music Showcase.

Particularly involved with new classical music, Isobel is one of the founders of the chamber group Chaos Collective, and works with composers to produce new works as often as possible. Isobel is also an emerging composer and conductor. Her work focusses on a connection to the natural world and Australian identity, and draws influence from many French and 20th Century composers.

Isobel has performed as pianist with the Dots+Loops festival, Queensland Youth Orchestra and George Ellis Orchestra in Sydney, and has been awarded her AmusA on both piano and clarinet.

In 2022, Isobel performed the Saint-Saëns piano concerto no. 2 with the Noosa Orchestra, and returned the following year as guest conductor. In 2023 she took part in the Cortona Sessions for New Music as both a piano fellow and conducting fellow, and joined the European-American Musical Alliance summer school in Paris.