Eliane Rodrigues was born in Rio de Janeiro. Her musical talent was discovered early on and fostered by Arnaldo Estrella (student of Alfred Cortot and friend of Villa Lobos).First TV performance at age 6 with the Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional conducted by Alceo Bocchino with a Haydn concerto. In the USA she received the "special prize" of the jury at the Van Cliburn Competition.

As laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium she performed very quickly in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, in the Berliner Schauspielhaus, in Paris, Hamburg and the Leipzigs Gewandhaus. In 1985 already as “brilliant and technically perfect” characterized.

Some of her concert cities: Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Den Haag, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Zürich. She composed a almost one-hour concerto for piano and orchestra (Suite Rio de Janeiro) that was first performed on 9 August 2000.

September – April 2002 she plaid in St. Petersburg the 5 concerto's for piano from Sergei Prokofiev and these were recorded on 2 CD’s. Repertoire: 63 piano concertos from which 58 performed.

Eliane Rodrigues is professor on the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.