Elisabeth Brauß

Born in 1995, Elisabeth Brauß studied in the classes of Elena Levit, Matti Raekallio, and Bernd Goetzke at the Hannover University of Music, Theatre and Media. She has given performances at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, in the Tonhalle Zurich, in the Barbican Centre in London, at the Konzerthaus Berlin, at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, at Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras such as Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. In addition to first prizes at the International Steinway Competition in Hamburg and at the International Grotrian Steinweg Piano Competition in Braunschweig, she was also awarded the Lower Saxony Prätorus Music Prize in 2012. She went on to win first prize at the TONALi Grand Prix in Hamburg in 2012, first prize in the “Sound and Explanation” competition in Frankfurt in 2015, and the KlavierOlymp in Bad Kissingen in 2016. In 2019 she gave her first performance at the Ruhr Piano Festival.