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Eleanor Alberga was born on 1949 in United Kingdom, is a Jamaican contemporary music composer. Discover Eleanor Alberga's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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1949

Eleanor Deanne Therese Alberga (born 1949) is a Jamaican contemporary music composer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.

Her most recent compositions include two Violin Concertos, a Trumpet Concerto and a Symphony.

Eleanor Alberga was born in Kingston, Jamaica.

She decided at the age of five to be a concert pianist and began composing short pieces.

While still at school she played the guitar with the Jamaican Folk Singers.

1970

She studied music at Jamaica School of Music and in 1970 she won the biennial West Indian Associated Board Scholarship which allowed her to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where one of her teachers was Richard Stoker.

After completing her studies, she performed as a concert pianist.

1983

Some of the piano music in particular, such as the Jamaican Medley (1983), Hill and Gully Ride (1990) and 3 Day Mix (1991), draw on her Jamaican background in their use of colour and cross-rhythms.

The chamber work Nightscape: the Horniman Serenade (1983) uses elements of jazz.

1992

She married the violinist Thomas Bowes in 1992.

They live in Herefordshire and perform together as a duo called Double Exposure.

1993

Later pieces show an increasing use of dissonance as in her three string quartets (1993, 1994 and 2001) which have been recorded by Ensemble Arcadiana.

The Villiers Quartet has been performing the String Quartet No 2 in its 2021-22 concert season.

Alberga has received several high-profile commissions.

1994

Roald Dahl's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' was commissioned by the Roald Dahl Foundation in 1994 and issued in conjunction with a book illustrated by Quentin Blake.

It has been widely performed in schools.

2001

In 2001 she ended her career as a performer to concentrate full-time on composition and was awarded a NESTA Fellowship.

Alberga works as a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

She has been pianist and Music Director for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and played with Nanquindo (four players on two pianos).

Her music has been performed by the Royal Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, London Mozart Players and The Women's Philharmonic of San Francisco, and in countries including Australia, South America, Canada, Europe and China.

Bowes was the premiere soloist for both of her Violin Concertos (2001 and 2019).

Alberga was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music.

As a composer Alberga uses tonal harmony and emphasises repeated rhythmic patterns.

2009

It opened at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio in 2009 before touring England and Wales.

2011

A later recording by the Taliesin Orchestra in 2011 featured Danny DeVito, Griff Rhys Jones and Joanna Lumley as the narrators.

The opera Letters of a Love Betrayed, based on a short story from Isabel Allende's The Stories of Eva Luna, with a libretto by Donald Sturrock, was commissioned by Music Theatre Wales.

2015

The choral work Arise, Athena!, setting her own text, was written to open the last night of the BBC Proms in 2015.

The Trumpet Concerto, based on Caribbean and Latin American folk legends, was written for the London Schools Symphony Orchestra and premiered by them, with soloist Pacho Flores, at the Barbican Centre in London on 20 September 2021.

Recordings of the two Violin Concertos (soloist Thomas Bowes) and The Soul's Expression (baritone Morgan Pearse) by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, first broadcast in 2021, were issued by Lyrita in February 2022.

The world premiere of her Symphony No 1, Strata, was given by the Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra at St George's Church in Bristol on 5 March 2022.

Opera

Orchestra

Chamber Music

Piano

Vocal and Choral