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). Her first TV performance at age 6 was 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, she performed at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, in the Berliner Schauspielhaus, in Paris, Hamburg and the Leipzigs Gewandhaus.

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

Eliane Rodrigues is professor on the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.