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Althea Talbot-Howard

Composer & Performer

Professional Recital  & Chamber Music for Woodwind, Strings & Piano
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Pedagogical Music for International Music Examinations Boards

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November 2022
NEW WORK: THE NEW CHEVALIER SONATA
Visit This Page to find out about this reworked composition for a variety of solo instruments by 
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) & Althea Talbot-Howard 
Leading Recorder Player Sarah Jeffery performs the Andante; and interviews me about Saint-Georges and the origins of the source work:
Le Sonate pour la Harpe avec accompagnement de Flute (c.1779)

Internationally-renowned actors Minnie Driver, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Lucy Boynton discuss Chevalier (2022), their recent film, which premiered in Toronto in September.  ​Chevalier is scheduled for general release in the USA on 7 April 2023.

IDRS President Sarah Roper, oboist Hassan Anderson & pianist David Korevaar rehearsed and performed new transcriptions
The New Chevalier Sonata & The Deep River Sonata, 
at the International Double Reed Society Conference at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA on Friday 29 July 2o22 at 3 p.m.
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 &​ 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.