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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. Eleonore 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” ensemble 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.

Eleonore enjoys working in opera and the theater as well, and has held chairs in the broadway shows Oklahoma! (dir. Daniel Fish), Illinoise (dir.-choreo. Justin Peck), Floyd Collins, (dir. Tina Landau), and productions with Heartbeat Opera including a chamber version of The Marriage of Figaro starring Anthony Roth Costanzo in all of the lead roles at Little Island.

Also a music educator, she teaches at Special Music High School in New York City. She received a doctorate in music from SUNY Stony Brook and a masters in music from the Yale School of Music.

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Take a heart and cast it into water. Lower the temperature. Watch the surface tighten until motion turns into sculpture. What remains are rings expanding outward, movements frozen into memories. These are the contours listeners encounter on Coldblooded, the third meta-statement from singer and composer Alicia Hall Moran. Sound travels across its surface as a skate blade tests structural integrity. History breathes beneath that ice, even as traumas wait behind winter's glaze. And so, the music begins its slow migration ...

Album Review

Eleonore Oppenheim: Home

by Karl Ackermann
May 10, 2016

The high-concept and experimental nature of Home builds in a level of musicality that shines through peripheral effects. A big part of the charm in bassist Eleonore Oppenheim's solo debut lies in the variety of ways she uses her core instrument to interact with electronics, noises and vocal components. The Julliard alumni has worked with a wide array of artists including the Philip Glass Ensemble, Norah Jones, Meredith Monk and Steve Reich. Oppenheim also performs and records with a group ...

“Quietly virtuosic” (Alan Kozinn, the New York Times) upright and electric bassist Eleonore Oppenheim is equal parts valued ensemble player and engaging soloist. Her “…subtle expressivity” and “…particular eloquence” (Joshua Kosman, the San Francisco Chronicle), coupled with her New Music advocacy, have made her a go-to muse for some of the best composers of her generation.