Eleanor Turner is a passionate ambassador for the harp and its music as a healing, life-changing force. Eleanor has been performing professionally for over eighteen years, making her London concerto debut aged just fifteen, with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Daniel Harding and broadcast live on Classic Fm. Praised by The Times for her ‘scrupulous attention to the harp’s dynamic and rhythmic possibilities’, Eleanor has performed solo at the Berlin Philharmonie’s Kammermusiksaal, the Musiekgeouw Aant Ij in Amsterdam and the Wigmore Hall in London.

Eleanor has scooped numerous awards including Second Prize in the 2011 Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition and First Prize in the European Harp Competition 2007. Her principal tutors were Daphne Boden and Alison Nicholls. Constantly innovating with the harp, Eleanor composed the music for a Ballet Wales’ production, wrote pop songs with Dutch artist Angela Moyra (thanks to the Dutch International Harp Festival 2013), recorded with renowned Indian tabla player, Sanju Sahai, and created an original show entitled ‘Elusive Symmetry’, with hip-hop dancer Lizzie Gough and guitarist-composer Alan Thomas.

Eleanor’s artistic development has been supported by awards the Tillett Trust,Ambache Charitable Trust,PRSFoundation for New Music, Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, Musicians Benevolent Fund, Park Lane Group and a Wingate Scholarship. These have enabled Eleanor to commission harp music from composers such as Dai Fujikura, Nicola LeFanu, Savourna Stevenson and Edward Longstaff, and to push boundaries in her own composition.

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