Soprano Ágnes Kovács was born in Budapest and comes from a family of musicians. After studying conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where she graduated with honours in 2003, she studied singing with Heidrun Kordes at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, for which she was awarded the Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship. She supplemented her studies with masterclasses with Anna Reynolds, Walter Moore, Beata Heuer- Christen, Helen Donath, Edith Wiens, Nancy Argenta, Anna Korondi and Jonathan Alder.

Ágnes Kovács has worked with conductors such as Howard Armann, Ivor Bolton, Olof Boman, Jonathan Cohen, Ivan Fischer, Nicolas McGegan, Thomas Hengelbrock, Aapo Häkkinen, Riccardo Minasi, Helmuth Rilling, Christoph Rousset, Michael Schneider, Steven Sloane and György Vashegyi. She has performed with orchestras such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Berliner Philharmoniker, B`Rock Orchestra, Festival Orchestra Budapest, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, NDR Sinfonieorchester, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Les Talens Lyriques, Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio and the Orfeo Orchestra Budapest. Guest engagements have already taken the soprano to renowned festivals such as the Musikfest Berlin, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Salzburger Festspiele.

She cooperates with outstanding chamber music partners such as Malcolm Bilson and the Lied pianist Hilko Dumno.

 Current CD releases:

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: “Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld” , Glossamusic 2018, György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchester (World premiere recording)

Gregor Joseph Werner: “Der gute Hirt”, Accent 2019, György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchester (World premiere recording)

Schumann: Missa Sacra, Sony Classical 2020, Thomas Hengelbrock, Balthasar-Neumann- Ensemble.

Graun-Bach-Telemann: Wer ist der so von Edom kömmt 2021, Glossamusic, György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchester

 In preparation:

Georg Philipp Telemann: Kantaten - Französischer Jahrgang 1714/1715 Vol. 3., 2024, Gutenberg Soloists, Neumeyer Consort, Felx Koch, SWR-CPO (World premiere recording) Georg Philipp Telemann: Kantaten - Französischer Jahrgang 1714/1715 Vol. 4., 2025, Gutenberg Soloists, Neumeyer Consort, Felx Koch, SWR-CPO (World premiere recording)

Elisabeth Scholl started her carrier as the member of the choir Kiedricher Chorbuben. At university she studied musicology and English literature. She began voice training with Professor Eduard Wollitz later specialising in early music and historical performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (also studied with René Jacobs). This is where she developed her ongoing interest for researching libraries for unpublished music manuscript. Her numerous CD-recordings from the early baroque to the romantic period testify to her stylistic diversity.
Elisabeth Scholl has been invited as soloist to several major European festivals (such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik-Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Lufthansa Festival in London, Festwochen Luzern, Festival van Vlaanderen, Händel-Festspiele in Halle, Göttingen und Karlsruhe, BBC Proms) and has performed with conductors like René Jacobs, Jos van Immerseel, Frieder Bernius, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Bruno Weil, Nicholas McGegan, Sir Neville Marriner.
She is regularly invited to song recitals, and has been performing at the Aalto-Theater in Essen (Countess in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, in the summer residence of Caio Vivaldi Ottone), in the Berlin State Opera (Haydn, Il mondo della luna) and in the Vlaamse Opera of Gent (Mozart, Donna Elvira). Elisabeth Scholl was Professor for Baroque Singing at Nuremberg between 2009-18, and between 2016-17 at the University of Music in Weimar. Since 2018 she has been Professor at the Mainz School of Music, where she teaches singing and will took over the artistic direction of the Baroque Vocal Academy’s excellence program in April 2021.