Isabel Rosales Pareja

Isabel Rosales Pareja (March 1, 1895 – April 8, 1961) was an Ecuadorian piano prodigy who studied in France, a student of Alfred Cortot.

Isabel Rosales Pareja was born in Guayaquil on March 1, 1895,[1] the daughter of cocoa farm owners Josefina Pareja Avilés and Carlos Rosales Llaguno.

[2] She studied music in France, standing out as a piano prodigy.

She was a student of the Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor Alfred Cortot, and won the first piano prize at the Conservatoire de Paris.

The couple had a daughter, pianist Celia Zaldumbide Rosales,[4] who established the Zaldumbide-Rosales Foundation in her honor.