Biography

Virtuoso violinist Isabella d’Éloize Perron embodies the transformative power of music. From childhood, she has captivated thousands of listeners and impressed critics with her already professional and confident performances.

Before the age of ten, Isabella appeared as guest violin soloist with the Orchestre Métropolitain and the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra. Subsequently, she has been a guest artist with several orchestras, including the Peninsula Symphony (San Francisco, California), the National Theatre Orchestra (National Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic), the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Conservatory Orchestra (Glenn Gould School), the Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke, and the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra.

Isabella received numerous prizes and distinctions. She won First Prize at the international radio competition for young performers Concertino Praga, organized by Czech Radio under the patronage of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which led to a tour in the Czech Republic. She also received Second Prize and the award for Best Performance of a Commissioned Work at the Klein International String Competition (San Francisco), First Prize at the National Music Festival (Canada), and First Prize with the highest overall score in all categories at the Canadian Music Competition. Isabella studied with Bill van der Sloot in Calgary and Erika Raum at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, from which she graduated.

Isabella is the recipient of a Sylva Gelber Foundation Award (2024), the Grand Prize in the Robert W. and G. Ann Corcoran Concerto Competition at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (2024), the Prix Orford Musique (2021), and the Michael Measures Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts (2020). In 2019, she won one of the grand prizes in the Canadian Music Competition’s International Stepping Stone. In 2018, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra named her its Emerging Artist. She was also among the top prizewinners at the OSM Standard Life Competition in Montreal (2016).

Between 2022 and 2024, during tours as guest soloist with the Orchestre FILMharmonique under the direction of Francis Choinière, Isabella d’Éloize Perron gave more than twenty-five concerts in many of the most prestigious venues in Canada and along the East Coast of the United States, most of them sold out. These included Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York, Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, Symphony Hall in Boston, Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Maison symphonique de Montréal, Palais Montcalm in Québec City, and several other venues, for a combined audience of nearly 50,000 listeners.

In 2025, Isabella devoted a substantial part of her time to composition, embarking on a path of research and creation. A multifaceted artist, she is also the co-founder of Duo Mycelia, alongside multi-instrumentalist Simon Gidora. Their collaborations have been notable, including projects with the esteemed Gryphon Trio, and they have had the privilege of serving as artists in residence at the Tuscan Creative Lab in Italy.

In the autumn of the same year, she was invited to join the prestigious IMS Prussia Cove Autumn Tour in the United Kingdom, culminating in a performance at Wigmore Hall in London. This international tour enables IMS Prussia Cove to showcase, for a wide audience, the work developed during its Open Chamber Music seminar, bringing world class chamber music to new listeners in many regions of the United Kingdom.

In 2026, Isabella d’Éloize Perron will appear as guest soloist with the FILMharmonique Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Francis Choinière on a Canadian and European tour entitled « The Four Seasons: From Vivaldi to Dompierre ». The tour, which will include stops in Paris (Salle Gaveau), Bordeaux (Théâtre Fémina), Vienna (Konzerthaus | Mozartsaal), Prague (Rudolfinum | Dvořák Hall), and Berlin (Berliner Philharmonie | Kammermusiksaal), will feature the world premiere of Les Quatre Saisons du Québec by renowned composer François Dompierre.

Isabella is passionate about sharing her love of music with the public and deeply believes in its power to bring people together and inspire change. She is particularly committed to working with emerging young composers, whom she describes as “the link between the past and the future, speaking directly to the contemporary experience of life.” As part of her Radio Canada Révélation classique 2020-2021 award, she commissioned a work for violin and piano from Métis composer Gregory Borton, which was recorded by Radio Canada.

Isabella d’Éloize Perron plays a 1768 Guadagnini violin, generously on loan from CANIMEX company.