Eleanor Alberga

Among the most prominent contemporary composers with Caribbean origins, Eleanor Alberga grew up and was partly trained in Jamaica. She lives in Britain and has had important careers as both composer and pianist. Alberga was born in Kingston, Jamaica, then part of the British West Indies, in 1949. She took up the piano at age five, and by ten, she was writing her own compositions. As a student, Alberga also played the guitar and accompanied the Jamaican Folk Singers vocal group. She attended the Jamaica School of Music in Kingston, and in 1970, she won the West Indian Associat...