Elise Letourneau is a multiple award-winning Canadian composer, and an accomplished arranger, songwriter, producer, vocal & multi-instrumentalist performer, and choir director. Elise has gained a reputation for writing choral music that is contemporary, accessible, and fresh; with a beautiful sensitivity to text and a particular flair for setting poetry. Blurring the lines between classical, jazz, and popular music, her music has been performed and/or recorded by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Toronto Children's Chorus, Canadian National Youth Choir, McGill Concert Choir, Salt Lake Choral Artists, Cantiamo Girls' Choir, Canadian Centennial Choir, University of Ottawa Choir, The Bach Music Festival Choir & Orchestra, and others.

An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, her work has been supported by the Canada Council of the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Ottawa Arts Council, and the City of Ottawa cultural funding unit.

Elise is a past winner of the Choral Canada composition competition, receiving the Diane Loomer award; and the Ruth Watson Henderson choral composition competition. She was shortlisted for The American Prize in choral composition four times. She has also won the Atlantic Voices composition competition.

Her choral music is available through Cypress Choral Music, Canadian Music Centre, Long & McQuade, JW Pepper, Hal Leonard, Sheet Music Plus, and Sheet Music Direct, with additional pieces independently published via Elise Letourneau Music on her website.

Larger choral works include:
Carolinian - An Ode to the Canadian South
The Great Turning - Eight Sabbat Songs
Salute for Service - Prayer for Victory
The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus
Requiem for Fourteen Roses

Elise has many shorter choral works available, and a large catalogue of arrangements. She also composes instrumental music for piano and wind instruments.

Elise focuses a lot on her composing and arranging projects, accepting commissions, and producing music in her studio at Maison Tournesol. Her ambient music is available via her imprint, The ELMgrove. And her songs live at Bandcamp and at eliseletourneau.com.