Isabel Mundry was born 1963 in Schlüchtern/Hessen and grew up in Berlin (West) where she studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Frank-Michael Beyer and Gosta Neuwirth as weil as at the Studio of the Technische Universitat (TU) Berlin between 1983 and 1991. She studies at the same time musicology with Carl Dahlhaus, art history and philosophy at the TU Berlin. During her studies Isabel Mundry was lecturer for composition and analysis at the Berliner Kirchenmusikschule and at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) Berlin. Between 1992 and 1994 Isabel Mundry was in Paris, first at the Cité des Arts, later at the IRCAM. As fram 1994 until1996 she worked freelance at Vien na and became professor for composition at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. Isabel Mundry was instructor at the Akiyoshidai Festival (Japan) as weil as at the Darmstadter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2008. 2004 was offered a professorship at the Musikhochschule Zurich. In 2007 she became first "Capell-Compositeur" at the Staatskapelle Dresden. As fram 2011 Isabel Mundry is professor for composition at the Musikhochschule Munich.

Isabel Mundry received numeraus awards and scholarships, among others the bursary for composition ofthe Berlin Senat, the composition prize of the city of Berlin (1993), the Boris Blacher prize, the Ernst von Siemens music prize, the Heidelberg Female Artists' Prize of the city of Heidelberg (2011) and the German Music Author's Award of the GEMA (2014).