Composer whose works are performed regularly in Canada and abroad, Isabelle Panneton is a professor of composition at the Faculty de musique de l'Uinversité de Montréal since 1995. She is the actual dean of the Faculty after having served as acting dean during the academic year 2011-2012, and Associate Dean of studies in Design and Technology in 2010-2011. 

After training at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, Isabelle Panneton  perfected her craft  in Belgium as well as at IRCAM in Paris. Internationally recognized composer, she is regularly comissioned by various soloists and ensembles with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. 

She wrote, among others, Rebounds (2008), a marimba concerto for Anne-Julie Caron and the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montreal conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She also wrote The Ark (2004), a children's opera on a text novel by Anne Hébert, opera which was created through a collaboration between the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the International Festival Les Coups de théatre (direction Remy Boucher). 

Trio Fibonacci devoted to her a portrait concert entitled Landmarks and flight in May 2011; On this occasion, the trio has created Islands, a trio for violin, cello and piano composed with the support of Canada Council for the Arts. She also worked with the French ensemble Trobairitz on the project Récifs coraliens as part of a festival devoted to women composers and writers. The work was premiered in Marseille and Paris in February 2012. 

Very involved in the Quebec and Canadian music scene, Isabelle Panneton was a member of the Artistic Committee of the Society de musique contemporaine du Québec, the SMCQ,  on the boards of the Canadian Music Centre, the Canadian League of Composers, the Conseil québécois de la musique and on the editorial board of the journal Circuit, musiques contemporaines.