Eleanor Burke
Artistic Director
Eleanor Burke is an award-winning English/Irish director. At 23, Eleanor became the youngest director ever accepted onto the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme (2022-24) at the Royal Opera House, London. She recently made her Royal Opera House debut with Martinů’s Larmes de couteau and her La Monnaie debut with Eleanor Burke/Logan Lopez Gonzalez, 555: Verlaine en prison .
In 2024, she was selected by Robert Carsen as one of three recipients of the Grand Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts. She is a semi-finalist in the 2025 European Opera-Directing Prize and a two-time Off West End Award winner for The Cunning Little Vixen (2023) and Eugene Onegin (2025), both with Hampstead Garden Opera.
Her upcoming productions include the world-premiere of Jane Eyre by John Joubert (Arcola Theatre/Green Opera). Other recent productions include William Gardner/Matthew Green The Prisoner (Royal College of Music, Winner: Stephen Oliver Award), Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh/Emily Hazrati TIDE (Aldeburgh Festival), Jake Heggie At the Statue of Venus / Poulenc La Voix humaine (Green Opera, Arcola Theatre); Bluebeard’s Castle (Green Opera).
Eleanor was a Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and holds a First Class degree in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge where she was a choral scholar.
Jonathan Whiting
Composer in Residence
Jonathan is a freelance award-winning composer who specialises in vocal and theatrical music. He graduated from King’s College London with a First Class degree in Music where he was taught composition under Dr Edward Nesbitt. As an academic, he specialised in musical theatre, particularly the analytical approach to the music of Stephen Sondheim. Currently Jonathan is studying for a Masters in Composition at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Jonathan has received commissions and performances from the Modern Music Society of King’s College London and Guy’s Chapel Choir and has two publications with Queen’s Temple Publications. He also works as editor and typesetter for world-renowned musical pedagogue and composer, Paul Harris, and assists in the running of the annual International Malcolm Arnold Festival. Upcoming projects include the premiere of his operatic scene, The Porter as part of Green Opera’s Isolated Incidents project and Sleeping Beauty (Cambridge Footlights).