Élise Poulin began playing the oboe at the age of 12 at École secondaire Joseph-François Perrault.
In recent years, Élise has had the opportunity to play for a number of oboists, including Louise Pellerin, Andreas Wittman and Lucas Marcia Navarro.She has performed under such conductors as Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vasily Petrenko, Jacques Lacombe, Jean-Marie Zeitouni and Alain Trudel.
She is a scholarship recipient of the Canadian Stingray Rising Star program of the Father Lindsay Foundation.
Élise plays in several Quebec orchestras as a supernumerary, including the Orchestre symphonique de Laval, the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières, the Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, the Orchestre classique de Montréal, the Orchestre symphonique de l'Agora, the Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville and many others. She also had the chance to play with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under Kent Nagano at a benefit concert in November 2016.
Élise studied at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in the class of Lise Beauchamp, with whom she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees. She also completed an advanced program at the Conservatoire Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris in the class of oboist Olivier Doise. In May 2019, Élise obtained a D.E.S.S in orchestral repertoire with Vincent Boilard at the Université de Montréal.