Eleanor Cully Boehringer is an artist and award-winning composer with a diverse artistic practice encompassing composition, performance, sound art, curation and installation. She has composed for ensembles across the UK including BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia, An Assembly and Musarc experimental choir.

In 2014, Eleanor was the youngest composer featured at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and more recently, she won Kantos Chamber Choir’s Carol Competition in 2023.

Eleanor studied Musical Performance at Brunel University, London and holds a Master’s degree in Composition from the University of Huddersfield. Originally from Norwich, she currently resides in Newcastle upon Tyne where she composes, teaches and collaborates with artists and community groups.

Eleanor runs the Newcastle-based concert series Current-Edition, with it’s debut concert approaching in November 2025. The series aims to provide community and collaboration for local composers, and to bring exciting and varied programmes of new music to audiences across the city.

Eleanor teaches singing in schools across the North-East and co-directs Newcastle Youth Choir, based at Newcastle University. In addition to working in schools, Eleanor is a music mentor for Hand Of arts education charity, working with vulnerable Looked After Children outside of formal education.

Eleanor recently worked with Cappella Newcastle as their conducting scholar from 2024-2025. She regularly performs with Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia and Fenham Ensemble and has performed as a guest artist with the band Rouilleux at Alternativa Festival in Prague.

Eleanor writes and performs her own music for voice, keyboard, cassette tapes and hearing aids. She has performed at festivals including Boundaries Festival (Sunderland); Tor Festival (West Yorkshire); and at Prague Headphone Festival as part of experimental duo Kneeling Coats.

Eleanor composes music drawing from poetic text, fragments of song, imitation and imagined sound. For instance, a small detail 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.