Eleanor Cully Boehringer is an artist and award-winning composer with a diverse artistic practice encompassing composition, performance, sound art and installation. She has composed for choirs and ensembles across the UK including BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia, Kantos Chamber Choir, Musarc, Galvanize Ensemble, Standard Issue, An Assembly and Apartment House.

Eleanor studied Musical Performance at Brunel University, London and holds a Master’s degree in Composition from the University of Huddersfield. 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 2023. Her music has been broadcast live a number of times on BBC Radio 3.

Eleanor has performed her music at festivals including Boundaries Festival (Sunderland) and Tor Festival (West Yorkshire). She has also performed as part of experimental duo Kneeling Coats at Prague Headphone Festival and as a guest artist with the band Rouilleux at Alternativa Festival (Prague).

Originally from Norwich, Eleanor currently resides in Newcastle upon Tyne where she composes, teaches and collaborates with community groups and fellow artists. She teaches singing in schools across the North-East with Music Partnership North and co-directs Newcastle Youth Choir Project as part of Newcastle Sings. Eleanor is a member of the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia and is currently undertaking a choral conducting scholarship with Cappella Newcastle under mentorship from Drew Cantrill-Fenwick.

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.