Elinor

Elinor was a student at the prestigious Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester before moving to London to study voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Whilst at the Guildhall she won the Worshipful Company of Horners’ Becker Scholarship to complete her Masters Degree in performance.

She is experienced on both opera and concert stages and has performed in many of the major concert halls in the UK and as far away as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the US. She has appeared as a soloist aboard The Minerva II for the Swan Hellenic Cruise Line, and has entertained at corporate events in venues including the HMS Belfast, The Gherkin, Kings Road Gallery, Burlington Arcade, Chelsea Marquee, The East India Club, Bridgewater Hall, Huddersfield Football Stadium, Tower of London, Olympia Exhibition Centre, Tandridge Golf Club, and most of the City Livery Halls. In 2004 Elinor was a soloist at the world famous Thursford Christmas Spectacular.

Her recent operatic roles include Rusalka/Voran May Night, Garsington Opera, Rowan The Little Sweep (Shannon International Music Festival), Zerlina Don Giovanni, (Hampstead Garden Opera), Gretel and Dew Fairy and Sandman (cover roles) Hansel and Gretel (Young London Touring Opera), The Singer in a new production based on The Pied Piper with Opera North Education, Mercedes Carmen (Lakeland Opera), Hansel Hansel and Gretel (Opera Festa and Opera Brava), Second Lady The Magic Flute (Kentish Opera), Polly Peachum The Threepenny Opera (ENO Baylis), Forester’s Wife and Owl The Cunning Little Vixen (British Youth Opera).

Elinor is accomplished in the field of contemporary music, and music theatre and won the Tracey Chadwell Memorial Contemporary Song Prize at the GSMD. After winning this award she went on to create the roles of Saskia Tangier Tattoo (Glyndebourne Youth Opera Project) and Queen Isabella, Edward II, which was written for her, at the GSMD.

For the past three years Elinor has performed in the summer seasons for both Opera Holland Park and Garsington Opera. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Garsington Opera Young Artists’ Award.