TURNER, Eleanor

Eleanor Turner is a leading harpist known for creating unique live experiences and contributing to other artists' projects. Her approach blends western classical technique with a distinct personal style. Turner is also a composer, curator, and educator, advocating for new music.

Eleanor has composed since she was around ten years old and was fortunate to start formal lessons at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, age 11, with Dr Peter Fribbins, a wonderful composer and mentor who remains a friend and inspiration. Far from being a 'second study', or even a third behind piano, Eleanor's writing is essential to her musical life and its experimental nature has peaked during the greatest upheavals and changes of her life. Alongside larger scale compositions for harp and strings, Eleanor offers commissions of 'postcards' - miniature pieces of music written from a prompt, or for a special person.