Eleanor Turner

Eleanor Turner is a versatile electro acoustic harpist who performs internationally as soloist, with her band Ranagrí and in collaboration with artists such as Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead bassist and composer), Deborah Henson-Conant (American composer/conductor/harpist) and Mendi Singh, tabla maestro, in her Tāla Tarang duo. Her concerto debut at age 15 was in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, broadcast live on Classic Fm.

Eleanor is at her most creative and daring in cross-discipline collaborations, for example with hip hop dancer Lizzie Gough or in the field of electronic gesture-controlled music created in collaboration with Balandino Di Donato (they performed her British Sign Language piece The Wood and The Water for harp and sound spatialisation in London, Birmingham and Shanghai). She has an impressive array of accolades, including First Prize in the European Harp Competition, a Wingate Scholarship and awards from the Tillett Trust, Help Musicians and the PRS Foundation for New Music. She has performed solo and with chamber ensembles at the Wigmore Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw and concertos in London, Bristol, Sydney and New Orleans.