Eleanor Turner, Harp
Rowena Calvert, Cello

www.calvertturnerduo.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/calvertturnerduo

"Three things are immediately apparent about this duo - their inspired programming, their superb rapport and their readiness to embrace the soul of what they play. They are not in the least afraid to give expression to their music, and in consequence it lives and breathes."
Dundee Courier, March 2006

"The Calvert-Turner Cello and Harp Duo brought unlimited energy and virtuosity."
Herts Essex News, September 2006

Eleanor's biography can be downloaded here

Eleanor Turner

Born in Essex in 1982, Eleanor Turner started learning the harp at the age of five and went on to study at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with Daphne Boden. In 1997, aged fifteen, Eleanor won the Audi Junior Musician Strings Final, which led to her concerto debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. It was this performance, with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Daniel Harding, which inspired Eleanor’s career as a harpist.

Since 2000 Eleanor has studied with Alison Nicholls and won the Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition Award for Strings and Marisa Robles Harp Prize in 2002. Eleanor was chosen for a Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists in 2005 and won First Prize in the Cardiff European Harp Competition 2007, winning an outstanding £20,000 concert harp by Italian harp-makers 'Salvi'.

Eleanor lives in Stamford, Lincolnshire, where she composes and teaches as well as giving performances in the UK and abroad, both as soloist and as duo partner to her cellist, Rowena Calvert. She released a solo album called Childsplay in 2006, enjoys walking, dancing, listening to detective stories in the car and is mum to Iñaky.
www.eleanorturner.com

Please see upcoming concerts to see where they are playing next or visit their website to buy their CD!