Eleanor Sanderson-Nash
Originally from East Sussex, Eleanor graduated from the Royal College of Music with a Masters of Performance course under the tutelage of Janis Kelly, 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.
From 2019-20, Eleanor was in the cast of Phantom of the Opera in London's West End where she was a Swing. Operatic roles include Sandman Hansel und Gretel (Grange Park Opera), Mary Crawford Mansfield Park (Waterperry Opera Festival), Zerlina Don Giovanni (Opera Holland Park Young Artist), Meretaten (cover) Akhnaten (English National Opera), Barbarina The Marriage of Figaro (Waterperry Opera Festival) and Oscar (cover) Un Ballo In Maschera (Grange Park Opera).
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 and was the recipient of the Ted Moss and Bertha Taylor-Stach Prize.
Eleanor is delighted to be making her debut with ETO and is looking forward to reprising the role of Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park at Waterperry Opera Festival this Summer, alongside the role of 1st Witch in Dido and Aeneas. She now lives in Essex with her husband and 1 year old daughter, Bonnie.