Isabel (Izzy) Lepanto Gleicher (known as Izzy) is a flutist, composer, and visual artist  praised by The New York Times as “excellent,” with composer John Zorn calling her “inspiring” and “stunningly musical.”  Isabel is an artist member of new music ensembles International Contemporary Ensemble and Wild Up, conductorless orchestra One Found Sound, woodwind quintet Sylvan Winds, and hip-hop band ShoutHouse. She has performed on series and festivals such as the MET Gala with Lizzo, NPR’s Tiny Desk, Lincoln Center Summer for the City, Big Ears, Guggenheim Museum Works and Process Series, TIME:SPANS Festival, SONIC MATTER, Sacrum Profanum Festival, MATA, among others. Izzy has premiered works by Missy Mazzoli, Nathalie Joachim, Courtney Bryan, Du Yun, Steve Reich, George Lewis, Jon Batiste, and others. Through-composed, stream-of-consciousness structured improvisations using graphic and text notation make up the elements of Izzy’s compositional works. This work exists at the intersection of her musical and visual practices. Izzy has curated solo sets of original music for the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, Experimental Sound Studio, ChamberQUEERantine Virtual Festival, and George Mason University’s Mason Arts at Home, as well as contributing to Metropolis ensemble's live-streaming perpetual sonic installation Flame Keepers. You can hear Izzy on several recordings: Wild Up’s latest Grammy nominated album Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy, and Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Aequa, synth-driven post-rock band Infinity Shred’s Shred Offline, and indie rock band San Fermin’s The Cormorant and Jackrabbit. An avid educator, Izzy serves as flute professor at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, and has previously worked as a teaching artist with New York Philharmonic Education and the  American Composers Orchestra. She is currently a teaching artist with Project Music Heals Us: Music for the Future, an organization that provides interactive programming to individuals in carceral systems. In the summer of 2023 Izzy competed on season 25 of the CBS reality TV show Big Brother. She was evicted in an 8-1 vote on day 44 wearing a pig costume. And in the fall of 2025 Izzy and her wife Paige finished in 4th place on The Amazing Race season 38, making them the highest ranking lesbian couple in the show's history.