Elisabeth Leonskaja (born 23 November 1945) (in Russian: Елизавета Ильинична Леонская) is a Soviet and Austrian pianist.

Leonskaja was born on 23 November 1945 to a family of Jewish and Polish origin living in Tbilisi,[1][2] then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

[3] At 11, she gave her orchestral debut with Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C major, at 13 her first solo recital.

In 1964, Elisabeth Leonskaja won the Enesco International Piano Competition in Bucharest.

The judges included the composer and conductor Aram Khachaturian and the pianist Arthur Rubinstein.