Isabelle Pazar

Isabelle Pazar, flutist and recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship for the 2022–2023 academic year, studies flute pedagogy and the traditional techniques of the French flute school. Her research project led her to study with flutist Patricia Nagle at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot. Her passion for musical composition, and particularly for the Romantic era, brought Isabelle to Paris to study the flute in its historical homeland.

Originally from the United States, and more specifically from Maine, Isabelle is a doctoral candidate in musical performance at Stony Brook University in New York, where she has had the opportunity to study with renowned flutist Carol Wincenc. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College, where she studied with Adjunct Professor of Flute Judy Grant, founder and director of the Boston Flute Academy.

In 2017, she received a scholarship from Boston College to attend the International Music Festival and Competition in Cremona, Italy. Isabelle completed a Master’s degree in Music Performance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2020, where she studied flute with Dr. Cobus du Toit and worked as a studio flute teaching assistant. She also assisted in teaching music history. Additionally, she studied with flutist Sooyun Kim of the renowned Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and has performed in numerous masterclasses with flutists Leone Buyse, Elizabeth Rowe, Mario Caroli, Linda Toote, and Lorne McGhee.

A recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship for the 2023–2024 academic year, Isabelle is delighted to continue her studies in Paris as an artist-in-residence at the Fondation des États-Unis.