Eleanor is an artist and award-winning composer from Norwich, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She makes performances, compositions and sound installations. Eleanor has written for choirs and ensembles including Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia, Kantos Chamber Choir, Musarc, Galvanize, Standard Issue, An Assembly and Apartment House. Eleanor studied Musical Performance at Brunel University, London and holds a Masters Degree in Composition from the University of Huddersfield. She has installed her work at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and had her music broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Eleanor has performed her music at Tor Festival, Todmorden and Boundaries Festival, Sunderland. She has performed at Prague Headphone Festival as part of experimental duo Kneeling Coats and at Alternative Festival, Prague as a guest artist with the band Rouilleux.

Eleanor is an active member of her local arts and music community and regularly works with choirs, ensembles, community groups, young people, and galleries towards new commissions and projects. Eleanor is currently undertaking a choral conducting scholarship with Cappella Newcastle under mentorship from Drew Cantrill-Fenwick. 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 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.