Isabel Williamson

Isabel Williamson is a professional cellist based near Manchester who specialises in applying her formidable skill and creativity across genres. Her powerful musical instincts, natural skill at communication and pure joy in music-making make her an asset to any live performance, and uniquely well placed to bridge the pop/classical worlds and bring artists' visions to life in the studio.

Since graduating from a Masters at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2017, she has enjoyed a varied career encompassing session work, composing, arranging, function gigs, orchestral playing and teaching. She has toured internationally with the folk-rock bands 'The Wishing Well' and 'BenBen' and is a permanent member of the alternative bands Bonfire Tide and Scatterchild. She also plays regular classical recitals with her duo partner of 10+ years, Jonathan Ellis. Her original music for cello and loops pedal is inspired by an eclectic mix of post-rock, ambient and folk music, fuelled by a musical imagination which needed to be freed from the limitations of four strings. She plays a 2008 Alan McGeoch cello and uses a David Gage 'The Realist' pickup.