Elise Letourneau is a multiple award-winning Canadian composer, and an accomplished songwriter, arranger, producer, vocal & multi-instrumentalist performer, and choral director. Her works have been performed on every continent except Antarctica.

An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Elise is one of a handful of composers to have won both the Ruth Watson Henderson composition competition and the Choral Canada (formerly ACCC) Diane Loomer award for choral composition. For four years running she was shortlisted as a finalist for The American Prize in choral composition. Blurring the lines between classical, jazz, and popular music, her compositions and arrangements have been performed across Canada and around the globe, by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Canada's National Youth Choir, the Toronto Children's Chorus, The Salt Lake Choral Artists, the Cantiamo Girls' Choir, and The Bach Music Festival of Canada choir and orchestra, and other well-respected ensembles. Soloists who have performed her music include Colin Ainsworth, Leslie Fagan, Marcus Nance, and Rebecca Noelle. Her music is available through Cypress Choral Music, Canadian Music Centre, Long & McQuade, JW Pepper, Hal Leonard, Sheet Music Plus, Sheet Music Direct, Bandcamp, and her website. 

Elise directs Voices Rock Medicine (Ottawa), a choir for female physicians, through Voices Rock Canada, based in Toronto ON. She teaches piano, voice, composition, and songwriting at Alcorn Music Studios. Elise performs as a studio vocalist with The Fieldown Singers, and with Glamour Profession (a Steely Dan tribute band). She has shared a stage with Brian Browne, Paula Cole, Bob Dorough, Sheila Jordan, Janet Lawson, Janis Siegel, and others. She is working on her 7th recorded album. Additionally, she founded the Ottawa Singer-Songwriter Camp, Vox Eclectica Women's Choir, and the Capital Vox Jazz Choir. Over the years Elise has worked as a staff vocalist, a university music instructor, a rostered performance artist, an adjudicator, and more.

Elise is a graduate of Berklee College of Music (Boston MA), and earned a M.Ed. specializing in creative arts and learning at Lesley College (Cambridge MA). She lives in Ottawa ON.