Eleanor Alberga

Eleanor Alberga (* 1949 in Kingston / Jamaica) is a British composer.

Alberga had as 5 years of piano lessons and went to 2001, partly with her husband, the violinist Thomas Bowes, as a pianist on. She won the 1970 West Indian Associated Board Scholarship, which enabled her to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has performed with an African dance company and spent three years as a member of the Jamaican Folk Singers.

Her career as a composer began Alberga works for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, whose musical director, she was. Her major works include a Violin Concerto, composed in behalf of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Joseph Swensen, the orchestral work Mythologies, which was established in 2000 first performed under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, Sun Worrior, Opera Letters of a Love Betrayed on a libretto by Donald Sturrock, a work commissioned for the Royal Opera House and Music Theatre Wales, Dancing with the Shadow, on a Bat 's Back I do fly for Kokoro for chamber ensemble, several string quartets and a piano quintet.

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