Born in 2000, Élise Bertrand began playing the piano at the age of 5, the violin at the age of 8, and composition three years later, as a self-taught musician.
After studying at the Toulon Conservatoire, she entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 14, where she studied violin with Suzanne Gessner and composition with Nicolas Bacri.
She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees at the CNSMDP in Roland Daugareil's class, and continued her studies in the advanced writing classes at the same institution (harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, etc.).

In 2022, she returned to the CNSMDP to study for a master's degree in chamber music with her pianist Gaspard Thomas, and became Artist in Residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Augustin Dumay's class.
Since 2023, Élise has been supported by the Fondation l'Or du Rhin and plays a violin by Joseph Gagliano, Naples 1796, on loan from the Fondation d'entreprise Société Générale C'est vous l'avenir.
Élise is currently studying violin (Diplôme d'Artiste Interprète) at the CNSMDP, enabling her to perform as a soloist with the Conservatoire's Orchestre des Lauréats.

She will take part in the Académie de Villecroze (2019), the Seiji Ozawa and International Menuhin Music Academies in the summer of 2021 and 2022, the Académie Jaroussky (2021 and 2022) in the Tchaikovsky class, and the Stauffer Academy in Cremona with Gil Shaham in 2023.

In autumn 2019, she won 2nd Prize in the Ginette Neveu International Competition and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary piece. A month later, she won the 1st Prize and Special Prize at the Léopold Bellan International Competition. In 2022, she was awarded the 1st Prize of the Rotary Club Paris and a few months later the 1st Prize - Prix d'Honneur at the Concours International des jeunes talents en Normandie.

As a violinist, she has taken part in numerous projects as a soloist and chamber musician (notably at La Roque-d'Anthéron, in recital at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad and La Roche-Posay, and at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence), the Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise, the Palazetto Bru Zane in Venice) and in orchestras (Les Dissonances, OPRL, the Orchestre de Douai région Hauts-de-France, the Idomeneo orchestra, the Ensemble Les Apaches. ..)

The musician is keen to champion the lesser-known repertoire, both on the violin and in chamber music, as well as contemporary music, thus combining interpretation and creation.

Published by Billaudot and Klarthe, her works are commissioned by ensembles, eminent instrumentalists, competitions and institutions, and are the subject of broadcasts on France Musique, Radio Classique and ARTE Concert. In May 2022, Élise was invited to the ClassicalNext international conference in Hanover, where three female composers gave their views. The same year, her Sonate-Poème, Op.11 was awarded the medal of the Académie des Sciences, Lettres et Arts d'Arras.
He has also been the subject of articles in Classica, Diapason, Pianiste, Traversières Magazine and The Strad Korea.

His first CD, "Lettera Amorosa" (on the Klarthe label), based on his works, was hailed by critics and the press. In September 2022, it was named "Contemporary Record of the Week" by Emilie Munera and Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier.

For the 2023/2024 season, Élise joins the Ambassador Programme of the Classeek platform as a composer, and has been commissioned by the Quatuor Modigliani, the Maxence Larrieu International Flute Competition, the Festival les Inouies, the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, and the Festival d'Auvers sur Oise, where she is invited to be composer-in-residence.