Debut Solo CD out now on Diatribe Records

“...from the trad meets avant-garde of Seóirse Bodley’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, to the madcap montage of Jennifer Walshe’s becher, and the post-minimalist washes of Donnacha Dennehy’s Reservoir.”

                                    The Irish Times (Aug. 20th, 2010)

“the young Irish piano phenom... plays a range of works by her home-town colleagues...”                              

                                    The New Yorker (Sep. 2010)

“...O’Connell plays with impressive power, clarity, and commitment.”

                                    Sequenza 21 (Sep. 30th, 2010)

“To all this diverse music Isabelle O’Connell brings great imagination and flair, as well as technical assurance. The recording is a fine one and nothing impedes admiration for this imaginative selection.”

                                    Jonathan Woolf

                                    www.musicweb-international.com

“Throughout, she plays with a firm grasp of rhythm, articulated phrasing, and with a sense of transparency in the fashioning of musical lines rarely displayed in contemporary music circles... The entire performance is so strong in scope and full-bodied, rich tone..”

                                    Women in the Arts (Winter 2011)

“a phenomenal showcase for O’Connell’s stylistic versatility”
                                  New Haven Advocate (October 2010)