Elenora Pertz

The Italian-American pianist Elenora Pertz is a multifaceted artist whose playing has been described as “magnificent, with endless subtlety.” She has performed extensively at venues including Wigmore Hall, the Berliner Philharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Musée d’Orsay, Oxford Song Festival, Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, and has appeared in live broadcasts on France Musique and SWR. Central themes to Elenora’s work are celebrating women and the natural world, and highlighting the cyclical correlations between the two.

Highlights of her 2025/2026 season include debuts at Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Semperoper Dresden, Heidelberger Frühling, Konzerthaus Berlin, Tanglewood Festival, and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. She will also give song masterclasses across Europe, North America, and the Caribbean, and serve as assistant to Joana Mallwitz for a new production of Lohengrin at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

Pertz has recorded art song and chamber music repertoire for labels including Hänssler Classics and B Records. In spring 2026 she will release her debut solo album TERRA, a project connecting the piano to the element of earth. Her artistic work seeks both expertise and authenticity, emphasizing the universality of classical music for audiences often deterred by its perceived exclusivity.

As an opera pianist she has worked at the Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, and the Salzburg Festival with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Thomas Guggeis, and Sir Donald Runnicles. She maintains a longstanding collaboration with Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbaender, serving as pianist for her Lied masterclasses at the Eppaner Liedsommer and Schleswig-Holstein Festival.

Since the winter semester of 2023–24, Pertz has led the art song class (Liedgestaltung) at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. In 2021 she founded the non-profit Lied the Way e.V., dedicated to networking and empowering women in the art song community and raising awareness of structural inequities facing female art song pianists. More information can be found at www.liedtheway.com.