Eleonore Oppenheim is a genre surfing musical polyglot. Her current projects as a performer-composer include big dog little dog (a duo with composer/violinist Jessie Montgomery), the avant folk-jazz supergroup the Hands Free (with James Moore, Caroline Shaw, and Nathan Koci), and Jessie Montgomery’s the Everything Band.

She has commissioned an exciting new repertoire for solo bass, much of which can be heard on her album “Home.” As an ensemble player, she has been fortunate enough to have worked with some of her heroes including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Meredith Monk, and in composer-led ensembles like Missy Mazzoli’s “bandsemble” Victoire and Florent Ghys’ low strings and drums powerhouse Bonjour, with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and many other artists from the indie rock, jazz, klezmer and folk worlds. In addition to writing and arranging music, she is a busy chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, and large ensemble player.

Eleonore enjoys working in opera and musical 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), several off-broadway shows, and performed as a sub on several other Broadway productions. She has performed many new operas on the Prototype Festival, with Heartbeat Opera, and elsewhere.

Also a music educator, she directs an ensemble and teaches various classes at Special Music High School. She is an alumna of the Juilliard School, the Yale School of Music, and Stony Brook University.