British cellist Eliza Millett has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in a number of UK and international venues and festivals such as Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh Festival, BBC Proms, IMS Prussia Cove, Peasmarsh Festival, Philharmonie de Paris, Musikverein, Yellow Barn, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Aix-en-Provence. As an active chamber musician, Eliza is the cellist of the award-winning Kleio String Quartet, BBC New Generation Artists for 2024-26 and winners of the First Prize and the Commission Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition, 2023. Eliza is a Countess of Munster Trust debut scheme winner, Hattori Foundation Award recipient and an artist for the City Music and Urakawa Foundations. She has appeared multiple times on BBC Radio 3, CBC Radio (Canada) and NPR (Virginia, US), and has performed as a soloist for BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions. Eliza is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Oxford.

She has been a Britten-Pears Young Artist and has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Strijkkwartet Biënnale, Amsterdam. The Kleio Quartet currently study at the Hochschule für Robert Schumann with Eckart Runge (ex-Artemis Quartet) and in the UK with John Myerscough. Eliza also performs regularly with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Sinfonia of London and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and works closely with composers György Kurtág, Thomas Adès and Mark Anthony-Turnage. Eliza was a co-founder of the Oxford-based contemporary music festival Smorgaschord from 2021-24, which focused on colourful and innovative approaches to programming. 

Eliza currently plays a 1732 Leopold Widhalm cello from Cremona, generously on loan from Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.