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After brilliantly completing her studies at the Conservatoire de Nice, France, Isabelle PERRIN gave her first recital at the age of seventeen at a festival for young soloists: the Festival Méditerranéen des Jeunes Solistes. Following this, she studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York for three years where she perfected her technique before joining the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

On her return to France, she was chosen by the Jeunesses Musicales de France to go on tour for three consecutive years giving recitals throughout France, thus introducing the harp to a wider public.

Named co-principal of the Orchestre National de France and honoured to be chosen as a participating soloist by the Menuhin Foundation. Isabelle PERRIN is also a winner of the Torneo Internazionale de Musica, in Rome, Italy.

An international soloist, Ms PERRIN is regularly invited to play with many prestigious orchestras such as the Northwest Sinfonietta (Seattle, USA), the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France. She has also performed with the Oshawa-Durham Symphony (Canada), the Orchestre National d’Ile de France, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, and many other well-known orchestras. She was very recently invited to perform the Ginastera concerto in a regional tour of 8 concerts with the Orchestre National de Lorraine.

She tours regularly in Europe, USA, Africa (Tunisia, South Africa) and Asia (China, Japan, Korea). This year she will be playing in USA, Australia, China, France, Italy, Portugal, the UK, etc…

Isabelle PERRIN’s personality has inspired composers to write for her. Pierick HOUDY- Grand Prix de Rome- wrote his CONCERTO FRANÇAIS for harp and orchestra especially for her. She performed the World Premiere of this piece in France with the Orchestre de Bretagne and played it for the first time in America in Baton Rouge (Louisiana, USA) with the Baton Rouge Symphony. She has also performed it at the Rudolfinum Hall in Prague with the Radio Prague Symphony Orchestra. Bernard ANDRES, a leading composer for the harp, dedicated his “Danses d’Erzulie” for harp, string orchestra and percussion to her. She performed the world premier of this piece in Cincinnati, USA, in June 2000 before playing in Amsterdam in 2001.

Ms Perrin has recorded several compact discs. These include a recital of the works of Bernard Andres. She has also recorded with the TURNER Trio, of which she is the founding member, original works of Arnold BAX for Flute, Viola and Harp. She has recently released the world’s first recording on a period instrument of the works of F.A. BOIELDIEU for Harp, which includes the famous C major Concerto. Ms Perrin just recorded 2 new CDs. One of Mr. Pierick Houdy’s harp music (including the Sonata and the Concerto he wrote for her). And an album of famous harp solos along with the Debussy’s Dances. Both of those CDs were released at the end of 2003.

The youngest French musician to obtain the C.A. (French degree to teach in the Conservatoires Nationaux de Région), Isabelle PERRIN is now teaching at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. She gives masterclasses all over the world, was invited for two months as guest faculty at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA and has been recently appointed “Visiting Professor” to the Royal Academy of Music of London. She was also the chairman and artistic director of the 6^th European Harp Symposium held in Lyon, France, in August 2004.