A real talent for composing opera, an immediate expressive power and a great sensitivity for dramaturgy: the Italian composer Elisa Quarello worked in several theaters, like Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin and Oper Köln. 2014 she brilliantly graduated in Composition from Conservatory of Music "G. B. Martini" of Bologna (Italy). She studied with Francesco Carluccio and attended to both composition masterclasses with Salvatore Sciarrino, Manfred Trojahn, Luís Tinoco and opera workshops with Martin Crimp and Klaus Bertisch. Elisa Quarello graduated also in Choral conducting in 2010, in the same year she got the Bachelor degree in Italian Literature and in 2014 the Master degree in Italian Philology and Literature both at University Ca' Foscari of Venice. Her highly successful educational background also includes studies of violin and piano.

Elisa Quarello had her international debut with great success of public and critics in April 2015: after winning the “Neue Szenen II” International Composition Competition of Deutsche Oper Berlin, the jury has conferred her the commission of a new opera, "OHIO-ObstHaine Im Oktober", which was premiered by musicians of HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin under the conduction of Manuel Nawri. Elisa Quarello was awarded in other competitions, like the International Award “Palazzo del Majno-Torquato Tasso” (2010) and “Felice e Luigi Magone Composition Award„ of the Conservatory of Bologna (2011), and had collaborations with "Zero Crediti" and "Bologna Cello Project" Ensemble, for which Elisa Quarello composed the opera, "Lohengrin-Bologna, 1871", inspired from Lohengrin of Richard Wagner and Macbeth of Giuseppe Verdi (2013).
In July 2019 her composition "Good body, I thank thee!" for soprano, baritone and big orchestra had its brilliant debut with Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon conducted by Pedro Neves at Gulbenkian Foundation. In December 2019, her work for ensemble "Io nel pensier mi fingo" was premiered by FontanaMIX Ensemble of Bologna under the conduction of Francesco La Licata. By the same Ensemble she received a commission for a new composition for piano, "Nach Kandinsky: drei Impressionen" ("Der gelbe Klang"-"Der rote Klang"-"Der blaue Klang"), which had successfully premiered in Bologna in October 2021 and with this composition Elisa Quarello was Finalist of the International Composition Competition of Festival Musical Durtal (France) in January 2023. Starting from "Nach Kandinsky: drei Impressionen" Elisa Quarello realized two films "Der blaue Klang" (en. "The Blue Sound") in 2022 and "Der rote Klang" (en. "The Red Sound") in 2024, both directed and starred by the composer. In August 2024 "Der rote Klang" film was awarded with an Honorable Mention by One-Reeler Short Film Competition in Los Angeles.

Elisa Quarello concentrates on opera, folk music and on archaic musical, theatrical and textual arguments. Her other interests are compositions on various texts, poems and plays written in different languages: in most cases, she generally writes the texts herself or re-elaborate pre-existing texts. Consequently, she researches a musical style that follows and increase the musicality of languages.