Born in England in 1982, Eleanor started learning the harp at the age of five. In 1993 she began her formal musical education at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, studying harp with Daphne Boden. Eleanor has been a student of Alison Nicholls for the past five years and has participated in masterclasses abroad with Erika Waardenburg, Catherine Michel and Susann McDonald.

Eleanor was just fifteen when she made her concerto debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Daniel Harding. In 2002 Eleanor won the Royal Over-Seas League Award for Strings and Marisa Robles Harp Prize. She was chosen for a Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists in 2005 and won 2nd Prize in the Wales International Harp Competition 2006. Eleanor lives in Stamford, Lincolnshire, where she composes and teaches as well as giving performances in the UK and abroad.