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Eleanor Lloyd was born in Leicester. She studied music at London University and gained a B.Mus. degree. Her early music training was as a cornet/trumpet/flugel horn player and she was only the second girl ever to lead the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. It was much later that she decided to sing, studying with Jane Manning and David Mason in London.
For some years, Eleanor was a regular member of The BBC Northern Singers, frequently as a soloist, making numerous radio and T.V.broadcasts and recordings. She has performed at major music festivals, both in this country and abroad, having toured Poland, Australia, the Far East and Spain. She has worked with major composers, orchestras, conductors and librettists, including Sir Edward Downes, Stephen Wilkinson, Betty Roe and Ursula Vaughan Williams, Laszlo Heltay, Gunther Herbig, Richard Hickox and Ward Swingle.
Eleanor sings in opera, oratorio, and recitals. Her vocal range is wide, as are the styles of music she performs, ranging from Monteverdi to contemporary composers.
Along with mezzo Adrienne Murray, accompanied by the pianist Nest Harris, with actors Susan Dury and Arthur Kohn, and directed by Alison Sutcliffe, Eleanor performed in “What is Love?”, a music-theatre piece of music, prose and poetry. They performed it throughout the UK, including the RSC and an acclaimed performance at The Purcell Room in London.
Eleanor made her Bridgewater Hall debut, singing soprano 1 in Mahler’s massive 8th Symphony.
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