Eleonor Sandresky

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Dubbed a “piano goddess”, Eleonor Sandresky is a composer, inventor of the Wonder Suit, producer of film with live orchestra concerts, founder of the MATA Festival, and pianist with the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1991. Eleonor’s music is heard around the world, including at Cannes Film Festival, Venice Biennale, Budapest Opera House, and most frequently in her hometown of New York. She has received numerous grants and commissions from notable institutions like ASCAP, Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, Meet the Composer, American Music Center, and has been a composer-in-residence at Yaddo, STEIM (Studio for Electronic Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, and MacDowell. Recent works include Strange Energies, a set of etudes for solo piano (2019); Wunderkammern Live! (2017) for mixed ensemble and film by Erika Suderburg which premiered on Tribeca New Music; Opening (2016) for guitar ensemble, commissioned by The NY Classical Guitar Society; and, Donne Songs Without Words (2015), for choreographed viols and baroque harp, commissioned by Parthenia with a grant from NYSCA. Other notable premieres have included Suite for String Quartet (2007) by ETHEL, Meditation for String Orchestra (2004), recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic and released on ERM in 2006, and The Fall of America (2003), premiered by Vox Vocal Ensemble. Works-in-progress include a new chamber piece for Collide-O-Scope to be premiered in the Spring of 2021. Working at the forefront of avant-garde concert-as-theater, El

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Sandresky - Glass: Strange Energies

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For Lenny

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Philip Glass: Dead Things (from The Hours) - Single

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The Wonder Suit: Brooklyn Session

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The Wonder Suit: Mexico City Sessions

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Sandresky & Glass: Strange Energies

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Freedom

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INSTRUMENTAL

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For Lenny, Episode 2: Anniversaries for Lenny

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The Wonder Suit: Mexico City Session

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Pronounced Leh-Nerd…

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Paste Magazine Sampler 20

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