Isabel Oliart with Anna Seda

About this event

Isabel Oliart is a Boston based fiddler with a career spanning between the worlds of Classical and Celtic fiddle music. She graduated from New England Conservatory in 2019 with her Bachelors and from Boston University in 2024 with a Masters Degree in Violin Performance, where she also won the Bach Competition. She won the National Scottish Fiddle Championship in 2025 and has also been a first-place winner of the New Hampshire Highland Games Fiddle Competition (2023), and the Scottish F.I.R.E. Composition Competition (2021). Isabel’s music has been featured on GBH’s A Celtic Sojourn and on NPR’s Says You. She has performed at the Rockport Celtic Festival, Groton Hill Music Center, BCM fest, the Burren, Club Passim, the Loon Mountain Highland Games, and numerous other venues across New England. She was also part of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra for many years and currently subs with the Albany Symphony, and has also subbed with the New World Symphony Orchestra. For more, visit isabeloliart.com

Anna Seda is a Boston-based cellist whose work bridges classical music, historically informed performance, and Scottish traditional music. A Boston Conservatory alumna and Aspen Music Festival fellow, she performs with Arpeggione Ensemble, whose debut album Songs of the Seafarer was released in 2026 on PARMA Recordings. A recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals and subsequent grant reviewer, Anna has conducted archival and field research into traditional music in Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, Galicia, and Asturias. Her work has been featured at the Peabody Essex Museum, the New England Folk Festival, and Fiddle Hell, where she performed alongside Scottish fiddler Seán Heely. Her artistry also extends into the digital space, including social media brand collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the sheet music software Tomplay. Active in New England’s traditional music community, she leads Scottish sessions and pursues collaborative projects as a performer, composer, and arranger.