Eli Boudreaux is a musician from New Orleans, Louisiana. His early studies in high school began at the New Orleans Center for Creative arts, with Matthew Wright (section trombonist of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra) where he studied trombone and euphonium performance. In his time there he was awarded the NOCCA Presidential Honors Award for Classical Music Performance. The spring of 2019 Boudreaux began his soloistic career performing the Guilmant “Morceau Symphonique” in concert with the New Orleans Trombone Choir.

Boudreaux then attend Louisiana State University on their Presidential Music Scholarship, where he studied with Dr. Hana Beloglavec, and earned his Bachelors in Trombone Performance. In his last year at LSU, Boudreaux won the Lucile J. Blum Award in Music, as well as the Baton Rouge Community Concert Award. During his studies at LSU, Eli performed and studied chamber music in brass trios and quintets with coaching from Seth Orgel (LSU Manship Professor, and, French Hornist of the Atlantic Brass Quintet).

Currently, Boudreaux is studying at the University of Georgia for a Masters in Trombone Performance, with his primary teacher Dr. Joshua Bynum.

As a composer, Eli’s works are primarily written for chamber music settings. He draws inspiration for compositions based on his experiences as a performer and from his fellow musician colleagues. The first volume of his song cycle “American Poets”, for soprano and piano, was premiered in the summer of 2023 at the Collaborative Piano Institute Summer Music Festival. Eli has been invited to attend the Vienna Contemporary Composers Festival, in collaboration with the Vienna Summer Music Festival, for the summer of 2024, where the Mivos Quartet will premier his second string quartet.