Elisabeth Brauß was born in 1995 in Hanover, Germany, and began piano at age four, taking her first lessons with Jelena Levit at six. She later studied at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover under Levit, Matti Raekallio and Bernd Goetzke, and was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2018 to 2020, making her BBC Proms debut in 2021.

Brauß won first prize at the Tonali Grand Prix in Hamburg (2013) and the Kissinger Klavierolymp (2016), and has developed an active recital and orchestral career with regular collaborations at London’s Wigmore Hall. She is regarded as one of the promising younger German pianists of her generation, with a repertoire spanning core Austro-German literature including Brahms and Hindemith.