Eleanor Kelly (1995) is a classical guitarist based in Liverpool, UK.
Eleanor has extensive experience as a performer having performed at a number of prestigious venues including: Kings Place, London (UK), Palacio del Portalet (Spain), Uppsala Konsert & Kongress (Sweden). In 2021, Eleanor joined the International Guitar Foundation Young Artist Platform, and in 2020, she was awarded a EuroStrings Scholarship.
An advocate of women in music, Eleanor specialises in lesser-known repertoire by both historical and contemporary women composers. In 2019, Eleanor gave the UK premiere of Claudia Montero’s Latin Grammy award-winning ‘Luces y Sombras’ guitar concerto with the Woodside String Quartet. Eleanor has premièred a number of new solo works for guitar as part of Illuminate Women’s Music digital concert series and La Leona: Women and the Guitar IGF programme celebrating Women and the Guitar.
In 2021, Eleanor graduated from the prestigious Máster en Interpretación de Guitarra Clásica course at Universidad de Alicante, Spain, where she studied with the world’s foremost performers and teachers and, in the same year, also gained a PGCert in Plucked Strings Teaching from the University of Chichester in association with ESTA.