Recital & Chamber Music for Woodwind, Strings, Brass & Piano
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Pedagogical Music for International Music Exam Boards
COMING UP SOON!  
Black Culture 365 - Composer Feature Concert
​Thursday 30 June at 1305
St. Alfege Church, Greenwich Church St, London SE10 9BJ 
British Premieres presented by Trinity Laban's excellent
Saxophone Department!!!
Troparion, The Door of No Return, The New Chevalier Sonata,
Blue Sahara Crossing, The Lost Tribe & Rievaulx
Click here, to find out more!
JUST PUBLISHED!!!​
An arrangement for the new ABRSM Grade 2 Piano Syllabus (2023-2024)
'Rondo' from the Quartet for Harpsichord & Strings by Joseph Bologne, ​Chevalier de Saint-Georges 
​​Click on image to purchase the score - available worldwide as a digital download
Exciting New Performances!!!
Alexandra Gordon & Troparion  ​​
 Mekhi Gladden & The Door of No Return
​Alexandra is a Masters student at the
​University of Nevada, Reno
Mekhi graduates this year from the
​Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Please click on the video/photographs to watch the performances.
New Artist Feature - Rachel Becker & Fantasia Dodecaphonica
A very warm welcome to my site,
​Dr. Rachel Becker! 
Heartfelt thanks to Rachel Becker who recently visited the UK, and decided to record Fantasia Dodecaphonica, as a surprise - in my own College chapel, no less!  
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She is currently Assistant Professor of Musicology & Oboe at Boise State University in Idaho, USA.  She received her PhD. & M.Phil from the Universities of  Cambridge and Oxford; and her performance masters from the Cincinatti CCM. You can follow her on Instagram!
Find out Althea's thoughts about the recent 2019 re-edition of this classic American piano tutor book, which has re-named 'Ten Little Indians' & 'Indian Tom-Toms'.  The authenticity of the musical idiom is considered, in the light of Althea's recent piece, 'The Lost Tribe'.  Is re-naming something enough?  Find out more in Column 5, in the forthcoming June edition!
New Artist Feature - Nandi Bushell & The Church at Errislannan (ABRSM Grade 3 Saxophone List B:3)
Welcome to my site,
Nandi Bushell!
I am delighted that musical prodigy and enthusiast Nandi Bushell has recently started learning the Saxophone, and in the course of her studies, has met up with The Church at Errislannan, my ABRSM Grade 3 Saxophone List B:3 piece.
One of my favourite miniature pieces, it is the story of a long-ago concert near Clifden, Galway, Ireland, on the Errislannan peninsula. ​Harpsichordist Katharine May and I performed in Holy Trinity Church in winter, and it was the coldest - but most atmospheric - concert I have ever given, there on the edge of the Old World.
Nandi herself is an extremely successful musician already.  She began by specialising on the drums, and has been steadily adding other instruments to her arsenal - including the Saxophone!  She has even starred on The Ellen Show!

​One of the surprising joys of becoming a composer has been the way that so many Saxophone doors have opened.  ABRSM asked me to arrange two of my own Recorder pieces for the Grades 1 & 3 Saxophone anthologies, and also accepted my new realisation of Andante by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, for Grade 5. 

The Door of No Return has a Soprano Sax Bb score; Troparion an Eb score for Alto; and Rievaulx is scored for SATB Sax quartet.  Blue Sahara Crossing & The Lost Tribe will also have a Bb Soprano part, as an alternative to the Oboe.

It was a pleasure to hear from you, Nandi - and to be able to celebrate American Black History Month together!!
New Chamber Music for Oboe*, Viola & Piano!
Blue Sahara Crossing & ​The Lost Tribe
*Alternative instrumentation for the Oboe part: Clarinet/Sop. Sax/Violin/Flute (with 'B' foot-joint)

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​Blue Sahara Crossing 
& 
The Lost Tribe 
received their world premieres on Saturday 5th February 2022 in the USA.
2021 Events
Featured Works
Soyuz Departing
for Solo Piano
with Dominic Saunders

Ora Singers and Suzi Digby record
Althea's prizewinning motet, 
​Bethlehem Ephrathah
 London, England, 2019.
"Thank you both SO much for the wonderful energy behind this creation. I loved the whole thing, and the music and the images made a strong impression on me. I had to read quick and will watch and listen to it again and read more of the information. The sea is such a powerful metaphor with the breathed phrases, and not just pretty sea pictures, I know the double edged imagery is tinged also with grief and sadness. Interestingly I don’t hear anger.  The gorgeous happy faces of the children and the women dancing is also an abiding memory.
Thank you both for the artistic friendship and collaboration across the sea.Also, going off to practise my B Major scales now..."  
​ND, UK - Commenting upon 'The Door of No Return'
Prelude:  The Seafront
ABRSM Grade 5 Descant Recorder List B:8 &​ Grade 5 Treble List B:10
Anton Reicha (1770-1836) ~ Scene 
with Dominic Saunders, Piano
Based in London, England, international prizewinning musician Althea Talbot-Howard is a classical composer who began her professional career in 1992 as a soloist and orchestral guest principal. In 2005, Gramophone Magazine called her “a superb oboist”.  A graduate of Girton College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music; she won Third Prize in the Paris-Ville d'Avray International Oboe Competition in 2007; and was one of twelve equal prizewinners in the Ora Singers Christmas Gift Composition Competition in 2019. 
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Of Afro-British ancestry, she is a 12th-generation direct descendant of King Charles II, who formalized Britain’s involvement in the Atlantic slave trade; and therefore a 14th-generation descendant of King James I & VI, who commissioned the Authorized Version of the Bible.  Both anti-slavery and Christian themes feature strongly in her compositional output.