Eligio Quinteiro studied Classical guitar with Olímpiades García and Joaquín Prats at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, graduating in 1993. He began studying the lute in 1989 with Eugène Ferre (Toulouse, France) and attended masterclasses by Paul O’Dette, Hopkinson Smith and Jordi Savall.

In 1997 he moved to London to follow a postgraduate course in Early Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is in great demand both as a soloist and as an accompanist for song recitals on the lute, theorbo and Romantic guitar. In addition, Eligio is a member (lute/theorbo/guitar) of the vocal ensemble I Fagiolini and plays regularly with period instrument orchestras such as The King’s Consort, Florilegium, La Serenissima, Orchestra of the Renaissance, The Sixteen, Gabrieli Consort, and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, appearing in several music festivals, as well as collaborating with modern instrument orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and London Mozart Players. He also collaborates with the musicologist Lothar Siemens transcribing sacred works by the Spanish Baroque composer Diego Durón, maestro de capilla in Las Palmas Cathedral (Canary Islands, Spain).