Isabel Chomnalez graduated from Manhattan School of Music – Precollege Division (“MSM Precollege”) in May 2018, where she studied for nine years. At MSM Precollege she studied violin with Professor Isaac Malkin and played in the first violin section of the Precollege Philharmonic Orchestra. Isabel has won top prizes in several international competitions, including the American Protégé International Competition of Romantic Music (First Prize and Judge’s Distinction Award) in 2017, and the Crescendo International Competition and the American Protégé International Concerto Competition in 2015. She has performed four times at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. Isabel has taken master classes with Herbert Greenberg, Wei He, Rachel Barton Pine, Roby Lakatos, and Kurt Nikkanen. Isabel is also an accomplished pianist and studied for more than eight years with Yuri Kim.

In past summers, Isabel has participated and performed in music festivals in the United States, China, Germany, Greece and Italy (Cremona and Castelnuovo di Garfagnana). She also attended Interlochen Arts Camp six times, including the selective High School Violin Institute in June 2015 and 2016.

Isabel has extensive chamber music experience and has performed in duets, trios, string and piano quartets and piano quintets. Isabel performed regularly at nursing homes, adult care facilities and community centers in New York City through Concerts in Motion, a non-for-profit organization that organizes recitals for the homebound, hospitalized or isolated. She was the founder and head of Brearley Music Outreach, a club that organized outreach musical performances by students from her high school.

Born in the United States to Argentine parents, Isabel is currently attending college at Sciences Po in Paris. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French, and has basic knowledge of Arabic.