About Isabella

Isabella Calmet (1996)  is a Peruvian music composer, singer, visual artist and 2D animator whose main project consists in the merging of academic music and animation/visual arts, being her main project her animated musical films.

She studied academic orchestral composition in the School of Music of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (2014-2019). In October 2021 after receiving the Japanese Embassy MEXT scholarship she moved to Kyoto as a research student in Japanese Traditional Music in the Kyoto City University of Arts. Isabella is now based in the Netherlands since 2023, In July 2025 she completed with “Cum Laude” her Master Degree on Creative Performance and Composition at Fontys Academy of the Arts.

The importance of fantasy and stories have a strong presence in her music and art. With a colorful and naïve aesthetic, her work seems to come out of the imaginary world of a child’s dream, being that childlike sense of wonder and discovery key to her artistic process. Playfulness, sincerity and vulnerability can be found weaved inside both her music and her visual art. Some examples of her animated musicals are “Underwater” an orchestral arranged song which submerges in her childhood underwater daydreams; “Fight me” a tale about feminine sisterhood power, and  “Nelumbo”, which story centers on a dancer named Nelumbo, who is struggling to complete a choreography due to emotional blockage.