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ISABELLE RYDER is a British award-winning classical/jazz composer, published by Oxford University Press. Previously an earthquake researcher, she is now a Visiting Professional in Piano at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). She has a deep urge to re-imagine through music the sights, sounds and processes that she witnessed on her field trips across the world. Steeped in the Anglican tradition growing up, she also writes choral and organ music, which is performed in cathedrals, churches and chapels worldwide. ‟exciting contemporary idiom”
- Cherubim Music Trust
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A Royal Celebration!
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Isabelle's celebratory organ piece Flame of Kildare was played after a special service in London in February, celebrating the 650th anniversary of the Guild of St Bride, with its patron Queen Camilla in attendance.
The piece was originally commissioned by the Guild in 2024, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the admission of women. Read more ... |
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Winner of international Call for Scores
Isabelle's Greenland-inspired piano collection Fjord was recently announced as a winner of the Juventas New Music Ensemble Call for Scores, for piano music inspired by landscapes. The collection will be performed in the New England Botanic Garden in Massachusetts in May 2026 by pianist Julia Scott Carey, as part of a concert entitled Around the World in 80 Minutes.
The winner's announcement and concert details can be found here.
The winner's announcement and concert details can be found here.
