Eléonore Rannou is a French cellist born in 2001 in Amiens, France. Since 2021, she studies her Bachelor at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, Germany with Stephan Forck.

In 2025, Eléonore is awarded the DAAD-Price 2025 of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. She also played this year as a soloist the second cello concerto from Joseph Haydn in D-major with the Chursächsische Philharmonie in Bad Elster, Germany.

In 2021, she wins the 2nd price at the Vatelot Rempal competition in Paris and is since 2023 a “Young Artist” at the Musicando association in Paris, where she plays solo recitals.

She also gets to learn during masterclasses with great cello pedagogues such as Peter Bruns, Marc Coppey, Tristan Cornut, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Conradin Brotbek and Eric-Maria Couturier.

She also plays a lot of chamber music in different formations in France and Germany and had the chance to meet and play with great chamber musicians such as the Dutilleux quartet, the Flaubert trio, Heime Müller, Vineta Sareika.

In 2022, she is also a member of the French youth orchestra, conducted by Michael Schonwandt with which she has gone on tour in France, Romania and Germany and has played in halls such as the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucarest and the Philharmony in Paris.