Tectonics 2025 Artist Profile
Eleanor Cully Boehringer
Eleanor Cully Boehringer is an artist and award-winning composer based in Newcastle, originally from Norwich. She studied Musical Performance at Brunel University and holds a Master’s degree in Composition from the University of Huddersfield. Over the past decade, Eleanor has developed a diverse artistic practice encompassing composition, performance, sound art and installation.
Eleanor’s compositional practice draws upon fragments of song, poetry, and imagined sounds, which translate outward into scores, concerts, and rooms. She has collaborated with ensembles and choirs across the UK and her music has been broadcast live on 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3. In 2014, she was the youngest composer featured at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and more recently, she won Kantos Chamber Choir’s Carol Competition 2023.
Eleanor has performed her own work as a solo artist at festivals such as Boundaries Festival (Sunderland) and Tor Festival (West Yorkshire). She has also performed as part of experimental duo Kneeling Coats at Prague Headphone Festival and as a guest artist with the band Rouilleux at Alternativa Festival (Prague).
Eleanor is a member of Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia and currently works as a conducting scholar with local chamber choir Cappella Newcastle.
Eleanor composes music drawing from poetic text, fragments of song, imitation and imagined sound. For instance, a small detail is zoomed into and then expanded, reflected outward into a score, a concert, a room. Spaces and environments are considered as part of the composition. Edges of places and contexts are amplified in dialogue with the sound played or playing therein. The work’s moment is an immersive, subtle reflection of the essence that Eleanor finds in the initial detail. Eleanor uses presence and contingency; her work and working process often make provisions for unexpected conceptual or musical additions to enter the composition, both as it develops over time and in a rehearsal or live setting. Compositions and performances are often reworked in various spaces involving new iterations that consciously play upon repetition and memory.
