Eleanor Walton has a varied career as a chamber musician, orchestral player and teacher.
As a Sub-Principal in the National Youth Orchestra, she has performed at the BBC Proms, the Barbican, The Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London
As a chamber musician, Eleanor was a member of the Seer String Quartet who were awarded a place on the Royal Academy of Music’s ASSET scheme and appeared at the Marylebone Music Festival in 2021. With the Ferrante String Quartet, she received a scholarship in 2022 to study with the Tunnell Trust ‘Music at Coll’ scheme. Other recent chamber music projects include a performance of Britten’s Phantasy Oboe Quartet Op.2 at the Lake District Summer Music Festival and joining Ensemble 360 in a side-by-side project working on Beethoven’s String Quartet No.11 op. 95, ‘Serioso’.
She has performed with the London Mozart Players, and is regularly invited to play with the Britten Sinfonia, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She was Principal viola of Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and the Guildhall String Ensemble in 2022-23 and, while an undergraduate, she performed as Principal viola in the Royal Academy Opera Orchestra, Manson Ensemble and Baroque orchestra in projects on both modern and baroque instruments.
Eleanor studied with Rachel Roberts as a postgraduate scholarship student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her undergraduate study was as a scholar at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Martin Outram. She has performed in Masterclasses with Lawrence Power, Tatjana Masurenko, Hartmut Rohde and Máté Szücs.
Eleanor holds the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music and is a trained teacher of the Suzuki method. Her interest and love of pedagogy began as a teenager when she taught and led workshops in the National Youth Orchestra’s ‘Inspire’ scheme that took orchestral music making into schools. She started teaching her own students as a first year undergraduate. Currently, Eleanor teaches weekly at the Chiltern Music Academy in High Wycombe and provides individual and group tuition as part of the Suzuki in Schools Initiative in Hackney. She is regularly invited to teach at annual festivals, courses and workshops such as Cellofest International Suzuki course and Edinburgh Suzuki Workshop. Her intention is to encourage her pupils and foster their curiosity for learning and creating in the way she has been inspired by so many musicians and teachers.
