Born in Groningen, Bram (abbreviation of Abraham) Eldering studied violin with Jenő Hubay at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

At the invitation of the industrialist family Weyermann, he took part with other members of the orchestra in an intimate chamber music festival at Schloss Hagerhof [de] near Bad Honnef at Whitsun 1896 and took part in the performance of Robert Schumann's String Quartet in A major and Johannes Brahms's Piano quintet F-minor - with Brahms at the piano.

He also became first violinist in the Gürzenich Quartet founded by Gustav Hollaender in 1888, to which Carl Körner, Josef Schwartz and Friedrich Grützmacher der Jüngere [de] belonged.

Among his students were Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, Adolf Busch, Hans-Ludwig Schilling, Max Strub, Siegfried Borries, Hans Raderschatt, Quirin Rische and Wilhelm Stross.

[2] Eldering died at the age of 77 on 17 June 1943 in a bombing raid on his home in Riehl (Köln) [de].