Baltimore native and Oregon resident, Eliot Grasso, hails from a long line of familial musicians. He began playing Irish traditional music on the flute at age seven, tin whistle at age eight, and uilleann pipes at age eleven, his earliest exposure including the music of The Chieftains and The Bothy Band. In January of 1995, Eliot began studying rudimentary piping technique with Paul Levin and later that year, began studying advanced piping technique with Na Píobairí Uilleann instructor, Kieran O'Hare. Since 1996, Eliot has won regional and international first, second, and third place titles at the Mid-Atlantic Fleadh Cheoil and Ireland's International Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in the uilleann pipes and tin whistle divisions.

Eliot has been the recipient of the Rosenberg Scholarship for the Arts four times for piano performance and has been twice honored with the Frankie Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to fund music studies in Ireland. In January 2007, he was selected by the Royal Musical Association to present his thesis on Nineteenth-Century Bach Transcriptions before the RMA Student Research Conference in Bristol, England and delivered a paper on recording the uilleann pipes for the Fourth Annual Art of Record Production Conference in Boston.

Eliot holds a BA in music from Goucher College and a Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Since arriving in Ireland, Eliot was honored with a commission from Na Píobairí Uilleann to record and produce an album of solo piping for the club’s catalogue which was released May 25, 2007. He is currently attending the University of Oregon where he is pursuing doctoral studies in musicology under the auspices of a Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Additionally, Eliot is on the music faculty at the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts. He and his wife, Kate, reside in Springfield, Oregon.

Currently, Eliot is a contributing writer for An Píobaire, issued by Na Píobairí Uilleann and Iris na bPíobairí, the International Journal for Uilleann Pipers issued by Cumann na bPíobairí.