Isabel Lepanto Gleicher
Lecturer, Flute
Flutist Isabel Lepanto Gleicher has been called “excellent” by The New York Times. Isabel is an artist member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wild Up, new music sinfonietta, Ensemble Échappé, conductorless orchestra, One Found Sound, and the band ShoutHouse. She is also a founding member of Song Sessions Collective: a collective of improvisers who create an ever-changing work based on the structure of whale songs through the use of flutes, clarinets, sine-tones, and an LED light installation. Isabel has had the opportunity to premiere works by Steve Reich, Missy Mazzoli, Du Yun, Dai Fujikura, Jon Batiste, and Augusta Read Thomas, among many others. Isabel has curated solo sets of original music for the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, Experimental Sound Studio, ChamberQUEERantine Virtual Festival, and George Mason University’s Mason Arts at Home, as well as contributing to Metropolis Ensemble’s live-streaming perpetual sonic installation Flame Keepers.
More About Me
You can hear Isabel featured on several albums: Wild Up’s latest Grammy nominated album Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy, and Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine. As well as composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Aequa, Ilaria Kaila and Aizuri String Quartet album The Bells Bow Down, synth driven post-rock band Infinity Shred’s Shred Offline, and Indie rock band San Fermin’s The Cormorant and Jackrabbit. Isabel has earned an MM in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, an MM from the Yale School of Music, and a BM from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. In the summer of 2023 Isabel (Izzy) competed on season 25 of the CBS reality TV show Big Brother. She was evicted in an 8-1 vote on day 44 wearing a pig costume.