Since her Carnegie Hall debut recital in 2002, pianist Isabelle O'Connell has developed an international career as soloist and chamber musician that has taken her across the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, to venues such as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Art Institute, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, St David’s Hall, Cardiff and the National Concert Hall, Ireland. Isabelle is co-founder of Grand Band, a piano sextet described by the New York Times as: "six of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York's contemporary-classical scene”. She has also performed with Crash ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Da Capo Chamber Players, the ConTempo and New Zealand String Quartets. Composers she has worked with include John Adams, John Luther Adams, Morton Subotnick, Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy, Dan Trueman, Bunita Marcus, amongst many others. Isabelle has recorded for the Diatribe, Innova, NMC and Lyric fm labels. Her debut solo album RESERVOIR released in 2010 featured solo piano music by nine contemporary Irish composers and for this The New Yorker hailed her as "the young Irish piano phenom". She recorded Kevin Volans' Concerto for Piano and Winds with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in 2014. Isabelle was a 2018 artist-in-residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. A Fulbright scholar, Isabelle holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She is currently on the Visiting Piano Faculty at Bard College in New York, and has given masterclasses and workshops around the world, including at Queen's University Belfast, Montclair University, the New Zealand School of Music, Dublin Institute of Technology and the European Piano Teachers' Association.