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24 April 2024
Eleanor Alberga: ‘I didn’t want to have to shout about being a Black
composer’
INTERVIEW
As her new piano concerto receives its world premiere, the composer reflects on diversity
in music, defying musical fashions, and finding recognition later
Jessica Duchen
April 24, 2024 6:00 am(Updated 9:02 am)
What do a 26-year-old pianist from Kazakhstan and a 74-year-old Jamaican-born
British composer have in common? Plenty, as it turns out. Eleanor Alberga has written
a new piano concerto for Alim Beisembayev, winner of the most recent Leeds
