”I’ve heard the perfect baroque soprano! Elisabeth Holmertz…
She plays with her voice, perfect inonation, she conducts herself (?) and the interpretation is intelligent. The ardour is total.
Just as i’ve placed her in the baroque category, she shows us that her register stretches far longer than Scarlatti and Purcell. Her performance in a modern and atonal piece is enorm. I have no idea how many high c’s she reaches. It totally knocks me out.”
Minerva-2009


“What we saw this shining/glorious day at Trolhaugen was shockingly good. With charm, masterful techique and with a personal expression, this early music really got life and became “modern” in every way.
Arild Erikstad, music producer and journalist at the Norwegian Broadcasting- 2008.


“But the biggest musical experience for me, was all the same the young Swedish soprano Elisabeth Holmertz, who in Troldhaugen, the home of Edward Grieg, together with the lute- and baroque guitar player Fredrik Bock, gave an excellent concert with Italian solo madrigals from the 17th and 18th centaury and even Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as encore”
Jacob Levinsen Jyllands-posten, 2008


Nordheim:
The onset is powerful, percussion of many kinds filling space with messages from inside matter itself, from the jitter of atoms inside minerals and soil. Elisabeth Holmertz’s voice cuts through this metal moisture like a shining vocal sword, until she appears like a sonic queen embellished in percussive diamonds that reflect a universe of stars and studio lamps. Beautiful. At times she’s allowed her own time, when the percussion rests in its silence, and those moments become breathless, ethereal.
 Sonoloco-2007

Den Forste Sommerfugl’ is a beautiful setting of a poem by Henrik Wergeland, and is a showcase for Elisabeth Holmertz’s bewitching soprano voice. It’s a lovely way to close this challenging disc from the Nordic avante-garde
Ewan Burke Cyclic Defrost Magazine-2007


…Fem Kryptofonier – with the fantastic soprano Elisabeth Holmertz…
Nina Krohn nrk P2 4/5-2007

Ophelias:death by water singing
The amazing soprano Elisabeth Holmertz doesn’t ask, neither herself or anyone else, but she shows us Ophelia naked- like a being- an accompanies any existensiell question.

Elisabeth Holmertz is an amazing soprano
Margeret Meyers GT- 16/10-2006


Elisabeth Holmertz has a great advantage, not only in her pure and clear voice, but also in her strong empathy, her wish to create emotions both vocally and mimetically, physically.
Per Olov Backman Corren… 4/9-2006