Isabelle Jamois

Isabelle Jamois is a Haynes Young Artist from San Diego, California, and is pursuing a M.M. in flute performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University studying with Marianne Gedigian. She is the recipient of the Robert E. Lohse Memorial and Richard E. Norris Endowment funds from Rice University. In March 2025 she was a finalist in the Houston Flute Club’s Byron Hester Competition and in February, Isabelle was a finalist at the MidSouth Young Artist Competition. Last summer, she was a fellow at the Yale Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, where she premiered Variations on a Theme by Ornette Coleman by renowned composer Vijay Iyer and worked with faculty including Valerie Coleman, Tara Helen O’Connor, and the Imani Winds. This summer, Isabelle is a fellow at the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

She received her B.A. in flute performance from the Peabody Institute, where she studied with Marina Piccinini, earned the Britton Johnson Prize, Evergreen House Foundation Scholarship, Arrowood Prize, Premier Talent Scholarship, and was inducted in the Pi Kappa Lambda Society. In the summer of 2022, Isabelle attended the Eastern Music Festival and in 2023 she attended The 21st Century Flutist: The Global Artist in Mondovì, Italy. During her time at the Peabody Institute, she eagerly participated in community engagement projects such as the Peabody in the Library series, the Junior Bach program, and performed with her woodwind quintet, Aura Winds, in venues around Baltimore, including the Walters Art Museum as part of their Drop-In Art Making events.

An avid supporter of new music, she performed a solo flute work as part of the “In Process” exhibition at the Moody Center at Rice University. In the fall of 2024, she was part of the premiere of composer Pierre Jalbert’s Saxophone Concerto, written for Timothy McCalister. She has also performed in Peabody’s Old Bay New Music ensemble, the ECCE in New York, and annually premiered works in the Flutists and Composers World Premieres Concerts from 2021-2023.

Isabelle is also an avid fitness enthusiast, loves baking and reality television, and is fluent in French and Spanish.