"Before the concert is over, she will have the audience gasping at the sheer beauty of her voice."
(The Boston Globe)


"Her voice is hauntingly clear and her lyrics tender and romantic." (The New York Times)

"Von Trapp sings softly with an astonishing clarity."
(The Chicago Tribune)

"Angelic, enchanting, magical" (Vox)

"Prominent in her trademark sound is a haunting ambiance that intrigues yet soothes-golden, warm, clear, ethereal. She fills he room with her flawless voice what soars to unbelievable heights."
(The Narragansett Times, RI)

"Musically exquisite and personally mesmerizing. One of our best events ever." (Steve Jobman, First Presbyterian Church, Davenport IA, presenter)

"When we wanted a special performer to close out our 20th anniversary season we turned to Elisabeth von Trapp, and was that ever a good move! Ms. von Trapp, along with cellist Erich Kory, thrilled a standing-room-only audience with a wide-ranging program that received several standing ovations. what an incredible voice! We are looking forward to a return engagement."(Keith Shafer, Tuesday's Music Live, Augusta GA, presenter)

"More than lived up to our every expectation...phenomenal talents...magnificent music-making."  (Keith Shafer, Riverwalk Series, Augusta GA, presenter, 2009)

 

Elisabeth
von Trapp

soprano

Elisabeth von Trapp's earliest memories are the sounds of music. Born and raised in Vermont, Elisabeth is the granddaughter of the legendary Maria and Baron von Trapp,whose story inspired The Sound of Music. Singing professionally since childhood, Elisabeth has enthralled audiences from European cathedrals to Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center.

Inspired by her father Werner von Trapp's guitar playing and singing (he was called "Kurt" in the movie), Elisabeth has carried on the legacy of the internationally renowned Trapp Family Singers. She began taking piano lessons when she was eight and by the age of sixteen she was playing guitar and traveling the back roads of New England performing with her siblings at weddings, gospel meetings and town halls.

Building on her famed family's passion for music, Elisabeth has created her own artistic style, at once ethereal and earthy, delicate and powerful. Listeners have likened her to Judy Collins and Loreena McKennitt. Critics have called her voice "hauntingly clear, " " joyfully expressive, " and " simply beautiful."

Elisabeth's concert repertoire ranges from Bach to Broadway, Schubert to Sting. With equal ease and eloquence she sings timeless wonders like Rodgers and Hammerstein's Favorite Things and Edelweiss, Lieder by Mozart, Puccini's O Mio Babbino Caro, soaring gospel tunes, pop classics like A Whiter Shade of Pale and her own compositions.

When performing in churches, a typical program includes sacred and secular music extending from Gregorian chants, songs by 12th century mystic Hildegard of Bingen, early American hymns, spirituals and psalms set to her own compositions. She is accompanied by the elegant arrangements of her guitar and acclaimed cellist Erich Kory and can appear with larger ensembles in appropriate venues.

In the spring of 2001 Elisabeth was granted permission from Robert Frost's publisher to sing parts of the poet's oeuvre. Poetic License, released in June 2004, features the musical settings of poems by Frost and Shakespeare, a Japanese haiku and interpretations of Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World, Sting's Fragile and Schubert's An Die Musik.

On her summer 2005 release from the Episcopal Church Publishing House, Love Never Ends / Sacred Sounds, Elisabeth has collected, arranged and recorded some of her favorite hymns, psalms and chants with influences from jazz and gospel, contemporary and classical musical styles.