Elisa Minelli

Elisa Minelli was born in Brescia (Italy) in 1992. In 2006 she began studying classical and modern piano at local music schools, and soon decided to integrate the study of piano with the ones of singing, harmony, composition and acoustic guitar.
More and more fascinated by jazz, she decided to deepen the study of the voice by enrolling in the triennial Improvement Jazz Singing Academic Program at the Accademia di Alta Formazione Musicale in Verona, where she graduated in 2014 with the thesis “Classical and jazz harmony: harmonic analysis of the piano piece Elegie by S.V. Rachmaninov compared to 'Round Midnight by T. Monk and Take Five by P. Desmond”.
In the same years she attended several Jazz Workshops with internationally renowned artists such as Barry Harris and Enrico Pieranunzi. She performed as a jam session singer alongside: Vince Benedetti (he recorded with Diana Krall), Luigi Grasso, Pasquale Grasso (he recorded with Samara Joy), Claudio Ottaviano, Oscar Zenari, Gerry López, Nacho Alcantara, Luca Pisani, Thomas Mayeras and many others.
In the recent years she obtained seven certificates issued by Harvard University’s Department of Music (edX), deepening the study of some of the most famous pieces of classical repertoire from Monteverdi to Stravinsky, and two certificates from Berklee College of Music (edX) in music and technology, she also studied some branches of musicology and violin.

For over ten years, alongside her activities as a solo performer and with various ensembles, she has taught modern and jazz singing, songwriting, piano and choir at the schools of music in the province of Brescia. In particular, since 2023 she has been cooperating with the guitar player and composer Sergio Lorandi.