Eleonore Oppenheim

Eleonore Oppenheim is a genre surfing musical polyglot. Her current projects include big dog little dog (a duo with composer/violinist Jessie Montgomery), an acoustic trio with art-pop auteur Glasser and multi-instrumentalist Robbie Lee, and the avant folk-jazz supergroup The Hands Free (with James Moore, Caroline Shaw, and Nathan Koci), among others. Oppenheim has an exciting repertoire of commissioned solo pieces and has also worked with established composers including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Meredith Monk, in composer-led ensembles like Missy Mazzoli’s “all-star, all female” bandsemble Victoire and Florent Ghys’ low strings and drums powerhouse Bonjour, with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and with many other artists from the indie rock, jazz, and folk worlds. In addition to writing and arranging music, she has established herself as a go-to chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, and large ensemble player. Oppenheim enjoys working in the theater as well and spent the better part of 2019 and 2020 performing in Daniel Fish’s groundbreaking reimagining of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” off- and on Broadway. Also a music educator, she currently runs a new music program for teens called Face the Music at the Kaufman Music Center and teaches and manages ensembles at Special Music High School. She is an alumna of The Juilliard School, the Yale School of Music, and Stony Brook University.