ELEANOR FINESTON-ROBERTSON

Award-winning London-based visual media composer and sound designer, Eleanor Fineston-Robertson writes music and sound for TV, Film, Animation, Galleries and Installations. She has composed the music/sound for over 100 clients, including: Barbican, National Trust, Tower Bridge, The National Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, Bauhaus Festival (ft. Marc Almond, John Harle), The Royal Parks, UK Research & Innovation, European Bank for Research & Development, Wandsworth Council, Garmin, Spitfire Audio, ProCreate, UKF and RAM Records.
Eleanor Fineston-Robertson is a graduate from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, having obtained a First Class degree in Film Music and Composition; and subsequently awarded a Distinction for her masters degree in Electronic and Produced Music.
Eleanor brings unique expertise to her film scores, by way of her string playing and piano skills. She is renowned for her distinctive approach of seamlessly blending acoustic instruments with electronic sounds and textures. From atmospheric horror scores that send chills down your spine to beautiful emotional compositions. Eleanor demonstrates a diverse palette and an impressive array of skills through having scored just shy of 90 short films from thriller and sci-fi to drama and romance. A number of these films have been screened at a plethora of prestigious film festivals including: BFI Future Film Festival (Appetite | Dir. Peiying Wang); London International Animation Festival (Porous | Dir. Cecilia Reeve, Sara Habib, YiWei Chen, Chu-Chu Lee) and the largest animation festival in the world Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb (Minus Plus Multiply | Dir. Chu-Chu Lee).

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Award-winning London-based visual media composer and sound designer, Eleanor Fineston-Robertson writes music and sound for TV, Film, Animation, Galleries and Installations. She has composed the music/sound for over 150 clients, including: Barbican, National Trust, Tower Bridge, The National Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, Bauhaus Festival (ft. Marc Almond, John Harle), The Royal Parks, UK Research & Innovation, European Bank for Research & Development, Wandsworth Council, Garmin, Spitfire Audio, ProCreate, UKF and RAM Records.

LONG BIOGRAPHY

Award-winning London-based visual media composer and sound designer, Eleanor Fineston-Robertson writes music and sound for TV, Film, Animation, Galleries and Installations. She has composed the music/sound for over 100 clients, including: Barbican, National Trust, Tower Bridge, The National Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, Bauhaus Festival (ft. Marc Almond, John Harle), The Royal Parks, UK Research & Innovation, European Bank for Research & Development, Wandsworth Council, Garmin, Spitfire Audio, ProCreate, UKF and RAM Records.
Eleanor Fineston-Robertson is a graduate from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, having obtained a First Class degree in Film Music and Composition; and subsequently awarded a Distinction for her masters degree in Electronic and Produced Music.
Eleanor brings unique expertise to her film scores, by way of her string playing and piano skills. She is renowned for her distinctive approach of seamlessly blending acoustic instruments with electronic sounds and textures. From atmospheric horror scores that send chills down your spine to beautiful emotional compositions. Eleanor demonstrates a diverse palette and an impressive array of skills through having scored just shy of 90 short films from thriller and sci-fi to drama and romance. A number of these films have been screened at a plethora of prestigious film festivals including: BFI Future Film Festival (Appetite | Dir. Peiying Wang); London International Animation Festival (Porous | Dir. Cecilia Reeve, Sara Habib, YiWei Chen, Chu-Chu Lee) and the largest animation festival in the world Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb (Minus Plus Multiply | Dir. Chu-Chu Lee). Impressively Eleanor has created a catalogue of over 200 string arrangements based on the originals! From legendary bands: Oasis/Abba/The Beatles; to pop icons Adele/Taylor Swift/Ed Sheeran/Michael Jackson, & more classical and cinematic pieces by composers such as Hans Zimmer, Holst, Bocelli and Einaudi. These arrangments are toured weekly across the UK for the candlelit concerts, Lumos Live.
A highlight of Eleanor's career was the commission for the Illuminated River Foundation to compose and record new music to celebrate the longest public art commission in the world. Estimated to have been seen by over 200 million people each year. On the day of the launch, the Guildhall String Quartet played a live version by the Thames riverside.
Another highlight was orchestrating well-known drum and bass tracks for RAM Records 30th Anniversary (and UKF); which ended with a special performance from superstar singer, Becky Hill (Afterglow). Eleanor can also be seen conducting in the promotional video!
In her free time, Eleanor loves trekking around the country with her state-of-the-art recording gear, venturing into the most unusual and peculiar locations to capture the sounds of remote industrial areas and coastal caves. Many of these sounds form the basis of her electronic tracks and can be used for all things sound design.
Eleanor has also been commissioned to create promotional content for brands such as: ProCreate, London International Animation Festival, RAM Records, UK Research and Innovation and more recently, Spitfire Audio.

TESTIMONALS

‘The work that @efinestonrobertson put into this project was nothing short of breathtaking. her composition skills allow you to imagine and create a fully rounded world. it was a joy to work with her for WFLS and hopefully many more in the future’ (Amelia Kosminsky)
'A beautiful hypnotic sensorial experience' (Harry Hoskyn, Spring Studios)
'An unforgettable concert that left me in total awe' (Lindsey Beumer)
'What a terrific initiative with a wonderful breadth and variety to both the film content and style as well as the musical response' (Jonathan Vaughan, GSMD Principle)
'Stunning beyond words. The best night I have had in ages' (Greta James)
'Oh my goodness! These are amazing!!! I love them all! You captured perfectly the vibes I wanted! You left me honestly speechless here' (Alexandre Peduti Halah)
'This is SO BRILLIANT Eleanor!!! Oh my god… it surpasses every expectation, thank you so much!!' (Os Leanse)
'These are so beautiful wow!!!! It was such a pleasure working with you' (Lois Pearson)
'Very evocative writing. Beautifully works with the painting. Excellent work. It very successfully captures a mood and also manages to imply an emotional narrative onto the reading of the picture' (Stuart Earl)
'All of the music works beautifully, and I cannot tell you enough how thankful I am that you took this project on' (Nicky Lowe)
'Omgggg Eleanor that sounds amazing absolutely love it omggg you are so talented!!! Honestly I can't tell you how amazing this is, it's literally what I feel from the scene. Btw I have sent this to the producer, DOP, choreographer, and editor and they absolutely loveeeee it!!!' (Freya Alcock)
'They sound absolutely gorgeous! Thank you so much! It's absolutely unreal, I am stunned! Thank you so so so much! It's still crazy to me that my little animation will have such a grand soundtrack!' (Alexandre Peduti Halah)

REVIEWS

Using a session orchestra and manipulating the voices of men and woman who built, maintained and operated Tower Bridge, Eleanor Fineston-Robertson created an impressive underscore and sound-design for City of London's Tower Bridge's 125th anniversary celebration. This was truly a remarkable and unmissable event. Peter Bennett, wrote ‘the post event exercise up the 100 stairs only helped to warmup the naturally chilled surroundings!’
Eleanor Fineston-Robertson created three scored soundtracks to the 'Ludwig' Animated series for live performance, with the original animator Peter Lang in the audience and Jon Glover, as before, narrating live to the orchestra. A moment from history brought back to life. Commissioned by the Barbican Centre, sponsored by DHL, for the Beethoven Weekender event, ‘the music fitted beautifully with the action and showed real empathy and understanding for what we originally tried to achieve. I am still smiling.’ - Peter Lang, original animator.

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