Eleanor is an artist and composer from Norwich, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She makes performances, compositions, installations and music. Eleanor has composed for choirs such as Musarc, Fenham Ensemble, Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia and Kantos Chamber Choir. She has written for ensembles such as Galvanize, Standard Issue, An Assembly and Apartment House and for soloists such as Craig Ogden, Gabriel Waite, Kathryn Williams, and Juliet Fraser. She has installed her work at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and had her compositions broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Eleanor’s arrangement of ‘The Holly and the Ivy’, Perennial Ephemeral, won the 2023 Kantos Carol Competition.

Eleanor is an active member of her local arts and music community. She regularly works with choirs, ensembles, community groups, young people, and galleries towards new commissions for musical performance, exhibitions and educational projects throughout the UK. She has performed at Tor Festival in Todmorden and Boundaries Festival in Sunderland as a solo act; at Prague Headphone Festival as the other half of experimental duo Kneeling Coats; and at Alternativa Festival in Prague as a guest artist with the band Rouilleux.

Eleanor composes music drawing from poetic text, fragments of song, imitation and imagined sound. For instance, a small detail, such as ‘wood for the trees’ is zoomed into and then expanded, reflected outward into a score, a concert, a room. Spaces and environments are considered as part of the composition. Edges of places and contexts are amplified in dialogue with the sound played or playing therein. The work’s moment is an immersive, subtle reflection of the essence that Eleanor finds in the initial detail. Eleanor uses presence and contingency; her work and working process often make provisions for unexpected conceptual or musical additions to enter the composition, both as it develops over time and in a rehearsal or live setting. Compositions and performances are often reworked in various spaces involving new iterations that consciously play upon repetition and memory.