Originally from Hampshire, Eleanor enjoys a busy freelance career across the country. After graduating from The University of Nottingham in 2016 with a first class honours degree in Music, Eleanor moved to Manchester to complete her Masters of Music at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2019, where she studied with Pavel Fischer and Jim Clark. ​

 

Eleanor is a freelance extra player for a number of orchestras, including the BBC Philharmonic (including Tutti 2nd Violin trial 2023), BBC Concert Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, Manchester Camerata, and the Oxford Philharmonic.

 

Eleanor is also a member of The Untold Orchestra, and can often be found playing around the North West with the group. In November 2021, the orchestra joined Bill Laurance at the London Jazz Festival and are looking forward to more collaborations. Eleanor is also the violinist and strings fixer for the Tom Seals Band and recently joined him for his ‘45s tour’, culminating in a performance at the Arts Theatre West End with guest performer Anton du Beke.

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Eleanor also has an interest in musical theatre and regularly plays for shows. In 2023, Eleanor deputised on the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory UK tour in Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool. In 2017, she was offered a "Developing Professionals" place with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, with whom she has performed in Bernstein’s Candide at Cadogan Hall as well as Mack & Mabel and King at the Hackney Empire Theatre. She has also worked with many West End singers including John Owen-Jones, Ben Forster, Lucie Jones, and Anna O’Byrne.

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When Eleanor is not performing, she enjoys teaching and currently holds a position at the Sheffield Music Academy, one of only 12 Centres for Advanced Training in music in the UK.

 

Eleanor plays on a William Szott violin, a copy of the Guarneri del Gesu ‘Plowden’ model, made in 2017.