Isabella Gellis is a British-Canadian composer of acoustic music.
Recent highlights include the premiere of her opera The Devil’s Den’ (Shadwell commission) - with libretto also by the composer - at Nevill Holt Festival in June 2024, and ‘Valedictions’, with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento (conducted by Finnegan Downie Dear), alongside other orchestral music for Aspen Music Festival, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Upcoming works include two orchestral pieces, a piece for 12 Ensemble, songs, and solo pieces for cello and guitar.
She has won the Jacob Druckman Prize from Aspen Music Festival where she held a fellowship, and a Bicentenary Prize, Postgraduate Composition Prize, and Musicians’ Company Priaulx Rainier Prize from the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied.
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Isabella co-directs Concerts at St Jude’s, a chamber music series in South West London