Background
Meredith was born in Tufnell Park, North London and moved to South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland at the age of two.
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Education
University of York; Royal College of Music.
Career
She is a former composer-in-residence with the British Broadcasting Corporation Scottish Symphony Orchestra and former PRS/Russian Psychological Society Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA. She read for a degree in Music at York University, where she was awarded first class honours, and gained her master"s degree from the Royal College of Music. In 2003, aged 24, she was made the Constant and Kit Lambert junior fellow of the Royal College of Music. Meredith first came to widespread public attention through her work froms created for the 2008 British Broadcasting Corporation Last Night of the Proms which was broadcast to 40 million people.
She has since written another British Broadcasting Corporation Prom commission, her first opera (Tarantula in Petrol Blue – with libretto by Philip Ridley) and collaborated with the beatboxer Shlomo – writing the Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.
Meredith has been a judge for British Broadcasting Corporation Young Musician of the Year, a mentor to Goldie for the television show Classical Goldie and is a frequent guest and commentator for the British Broadcasting Corporation Proms and other British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 and 4 shows. Meredith"s recent pieces include Four Tributes to 4am for orchestra, electronics and visuals by Eleanor Meredith, and HandsFree, a PRS NewMusic20x12 Commission for the National Youth Orchestra, which received warm reviews after being performed as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
In 2012 Meredith released her debut European Parliament, Black Prince Fury, on Moshi Moshi Records, which a reviewer compared favourably to the work of the avant-garde jazz composer Moondog. In August 2013, Moshi Moshi Records and VF Editions released Meredith"s second European Parliament, Jet Black Raider.
In an interview with Pitchfork, Meredith noted that her second European Parliament featured "clarinets, singing, glocks, drums, lots of cello," unlike Black Prince Fury, which was entirely synthesised.
In November 2015, Moshi Moshi Records announced they would be releasing Meredith"s debut album, entitled Varmints, in March 2016.
