Eleanor Hodgkinson

Solo recital work has taken her to North America, Denmark, Holland, Germany and France. Between 2020 and 2025 she released the Complete Solo Piano Works of Nino Rota on the Naxos Grand Piano label. She has been part of numerous cross-genre projects, having performed and recorded with Mid-Wales Opera, Southern Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Swan and Nevill Holt Opera and has long-standing duos with cellist Nick Stringfellow and pianist Jakob Fichert.

As a writer, Eleanor has devised many education projects and in 2014 founded BabyGigs, a CIC specialising in concerts and events for under fives and primary schools. The company is frequently commissioned for community projects and their musical story shows have featured in many UK festivals.

Eleanor is Junior Academy Keyboard Coordinator at the Royal Academy of Music where she teaches piano and chamber music. She is a Principal Lecturer in Piano at Leeds Conservatoire and external examiner for Birmingham Conservatoire and the RCM. Many of her students have gone on to have performing careers in music while others have achieved success in national competitions, most recently winning the Keyboard Category of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2020. She is frequently invited to adjudicate competitions in conservatoires and schools around the UK. For over 20 years she has been a trainer and examiner for the ABRSM.

Eleanor studied piano and piano accompaniment with Renna Kellaway and Carole Presland at the Royal Northern College of Music before being awarded a scholarship to study accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music with Malcolm Martineau. In 2013 Eleanor obtained an MA in Music Psychology from the University of Sheffield.