Eleanor Corr,
Concertmaster
Solo appearances include regular festival recitals, including at Oslo Chamber Music Festival, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room, and on BBC Radio 3, recent performances of concertos by Mendelsohn, Sibelius, Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Bruch and Schnittke, which she recorded at Abbey Road Studios for broadcast on Sky Arts.
Her quartet, Pocket Sinfonia, are winners of St. Martin-in-the-Fields International Chamber Music Competition Audience Prize, REMA European Early Music Network Showcase Artists 2021 and Continuo Foundation Awards 2021 and 2022, and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and WDR.
Eleanor's passion for period performance has taken her to Berlin Philharmonie and the BBC Proms with Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, and for contemporary music most recently led to recording new works commissioned by the Music and Meditation Podcast for string trio/quartet and choir with The BBC Singers.
“It was Corr who was crowned winner. This was no surprise because it was a distinctively confident, technically and musicologically accomplished set of readings…all expertly judged. It was also fiery, with strong vibrato and muscular richness…and bucketloads of kick – the precision with which her up bow attacked the G string for the opening note of Tzigane commanded attention.” - The Strad
“Special mention must be made of Eleanor Corr’s supremely agile violin playing... Rarely has Stravinsky’s septet scoring sounded so alive, responsive and daring as this.” - Europadisc