Biography

Elisabeth Von Trapp is a third-generation member of the Von Trapp family of Austria. But she's no Julie Andrews sound-alike. Instead, Elizabeth's own expansive, dreamy sound, featuring acoustic guitar, keyboards, cello and a golden voice, reflects her love of 60s pop music as much as her background in folk, classical and liturgical styles. Her five albums reveal "her penchant for beautiful melancholy . . . like a civilized cabaret in which only the serious, bittersweet music is allowed."

For Elisabeth von Trapp, the sounds of music are part of her earliest memories. Born and raised in Vermont, Elisabeth is the granddaughter of the legendary Maria and Baron von Trapp, whose story inspired The Sound of Music. Singing professionally since childhood, Elisabeth has enthralled audiences from European cathedrals to Washington D.C.s Kennedy Center.

Inspired by her father Werner von Trapps guitar playing and singing, Elisabeth has carried on the legacy of the internationally renowned Trapp Family Singers. She began taking piano lessons when she was eight and by the age of sixteen she was playing guitar and traveling the back roads of New England performing with her siblings at weddings, gospel meetings and town halls.