ABOUT

Soprano Eleanor Sanderson-Nash is from East Sussex. In 2017 she graduated from the Masters of Performance course at the Royal College of Music with Distinction under the tutelage of Janis Kelly and Caroline Dowdle, where she was supported by a Martin Harris Award and a Charles Branchini Award, the Josephine Baker Trust, Friends of Music in Mayfield, The Lake House Charitable Foundation and the Tom Cocklin Memorial Trust. In 2015, she graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelors degree from the Royal Northern College of Music. 

 

Recent engagements include Phyllis (cover) Iolanthe (English National Opera),  Papagena The Magic Flute (Wild Arts), Johanna Sweeney Todd (West Green House Opera), Delia & Contessa di Folleville (cover) Il Viaggio a Reims (English Touring Opera), Mary Crawford Mansfield Park (Waterperry Opera Festival) Oscar (cover) Un Ballo In Maschera (Grange Park Opera), Zerlina Don Giovanni (Opera Holland Park Young Artist), Meretaten (cover) Akhnaten (English National Opera), In 2019-2020, Eleanor was a Swing in Phantom of the Opera in London's West End.

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Eleanor was a finalist in the Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition 2018, the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2017 at Wigmore Hall, won First Prize in the RCM Lieder Competition in 2017, was a finalist in the MCL Young Musician of the Year 2017,  and was the recipient of the Ted Moss and Bertha Taylor-Stach Prize.

 

Eleanor is thrilled to be returning to English National Opera this Autumn where she is covering the role of Phyllis in 'Iolanthe'. When she’s not singing, Eleanor is most likely with her two children and her husband at their home in Essex.