ArtistInfo

Isabel Leonard

voc, *1982 US
Singer of Classical

Isabel Leonard (born February 18, 1982) is an American mezzo-soprano. She is of Argentinean ancestry on her mother's side.Leonard was born in New York City. For five years she sang with the Manhattan School of Music children's chorus. She attended the Joffrey Ballet School. She is a graduate of The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. She earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the Juilliard School, where she was a pupil of Edith Bers. She has also studied with Marilyn Horne, Brian Zeger, Warren Jones, and Margo Garrett. She is a 2005 winner of a Marilyn Horne Foundation award. In 2006, she received The Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award. She was also chosen as a recipient of a Movado