10-11-00

By Mark Floyd, 541-737-0788
SOURCE: Dennis Oehler, 541-757-3937

CORVALLIS - Double Exposure, a critically acclaimed chamber music duo featuring the married couple Thomas Bowes and Eleanor Alberga, will perform at Oregon State University's LaSells Stewart Center on Thursday, Oct. 19, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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The concert is the first in the 2000-01 series sponsored by the Corvallis-OSU Music Association. Since Double Exposure was formed in 1995, the duo has received rave reviews from the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and others for its varied, energetic music.

Bowes is a violinist who has been guest concertmaster with such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Georg Solti, Kent Nagano and Colin Davis. Known as a passionate and fiery performer, he has built a reputation as one of the United Kingdom's leading violinists. The New York Times, in a review of Double Exposure, said Bowes "dazzled with his speed and lightness...all the pent-up energy of a sapling bending in the wind."

Pianist Alberga has had her music commissioned and performed by the London Philharmonic and the London Chamber Symphony, among others. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, she began playing piano at the age of five. Her recent solo performances have taken her t o the Royal Albert Hall, the South Bank, and Covent Garden.

In addition to its stirring music, Double Exposure has become known for providing humorous and informative narrative during concerts.

Wrote the Washington Post: "Thomas Bowes and Eleanor Alberga have each established an eminent career on their own; in fusion, they radiate an irresistibly engaging musical presence. Add to that a knack for imaginatively conceived programming, and you hav e a glimpse of what made their performance...so memorable."

In 1997, Double Exposure went to China to perform and give a series of classes. In Beijing, it delivered what the Beijing News called a "dazzling performance, which left the audience with infinite wonderment." Later that year, the duo turned out its firs t CD on the Essence label.

Tickets for the performance, priced at $15 for adults and seniors, and $5 for OSU students and spouses, are available at Rice's Pharmacy in Corvallis, Sid Stevens Jewelers in Albany, and at the door. Season tickets are available for the Corvallis-OSU Mus ic Association's series of four concerts for $50. Future performances include: the Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats, Nov. 12; McCray and Blasdale piano duo, Feb. 23; and the Oregon Symphony, April 10.

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