Eléonore Billy plays
nyckelharpa, bass nyckelharpa, hardanger violin and
violin. She was the first French musician to study the
nyckelharpa at the Eric Salhstrom Institute, the only
specialist nyckelharpa course in the world, and during
her time there she made her first nyckelharpa and has
since made a children’s nyckelharpa and a moraharpa (a
medieval nyckelharpa) in the workshop of Jean-Claude
Condi. She now teaches on up to 6 nyckelharpa courses a
year in France and the UK. She collaborates with
musicians from diverse musical backgrounds including
rock, traditional, classical and improvisation and her
style of playing is influenced by this experience. She
writes, arranges, records and performs with the musicians
of her different groups; Drakkan, Boann, SYM, Duo
Billy-Sauniere, Cordenstock and Tokso.