Elisabeth Scholl grew up in a musical family at Kiedrich, a small town in the Rheingau valley. Her singing career began at the age of 9 when she became member of the boys’choir Kiedricher Chorbuben. She also took lessons on the piano and accordeon.

Having finished her studies at Mainz University, she specialized in Early Music and performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, studying with Richard Levitt and René Jacobs.

Since then Elisabeth Scholl has performed as a soloist with Philip Pickett, Marcus Creed, Frieder Bernius, Konrad Junghänel, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Ton Koopman, Mario Venzago, Rolf Beck, Michael Schneider, Sigiswald Kuijken, Bruno Weil, Andreas Spering, Paulus Christmann, Federico Maria Sardelli, Michel Corboz, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orquestra, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, the RIAS Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Toronto. She has been engaged by the Tokyo Summer Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Leipzig Bach Festival, Flanders Festival, Les jeudis d´été Festival in Colmar, Helsinki Festival, Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, Handel Festival in Göttingen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Frankfurter Mendelssohn-Tage, Lucerne Festival, Handel Festival in Karlsruhe and the BBC Proms.

Elisabeth Scholl appears frequently in recital with Burkhard Schaeffer. Her first lieder CD was released in 1999. A CD with opera arias and scenes by Reinhard Keiser followed in May 2001.

She was heard for the first time at the Aalto-Theater in Essen as Caio in Vivaldi´s Ottone in villa (director: Philipp Himmelmann) with Andreas Spering in October 2001, and as a result was invited by Music Director Stefan Soltesz to return as the Countess in Mozart’s Figaro.

In February 2002 she made her debut at the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin as Clarice in Haydn´s Il mondo della luna under René Jacobs (directed by Karoline Gruber). She had appeared in this role for the first time at the Festival of Early Music in Innsbruck in August 2001. In 2001 she also debuted at the Schwetzingen Festival singing the title role in Haydn´s L´anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice under Thomas Hengelbrock (directed by Achim Freyer). At the Festival Opera Barga (Italy) in 2003, Elisabeth Scholl performed the role of Manlio in Vivaldi’s opera Tito Manlio, Federico Maria Sardelli conducting.