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Althea Talbot-Howard

Composer & Performer

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

Professional recital music presentation pages are listed under the 
Featured Works Menu
 
​To purchase a score, go to the 
​Score Purchase & Contact Page

Pedagogical music can be purchased via the ABRSM Page
NEW VIDEOS!
Conor Bell & Sarah Rushing present recently-premiered new work Byzantion II - Through Space and Time (see below).
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MY FIRST VLOG! In this first attempt at creating an amusing & informative YouTube genre video, you will hear my music at the beginning & end; some popular music (vlog genre) in the middle; and a taster of J.S. Bach, for oboe d'amore & harpsichord.  Includes unexpected scenes of London!
WELCOME TO THE SITE!
As most pieces listed here are multi-instrumental, each one has its own FEATURE PAGE. This page is a one-stop shop with photographs, video performances, written information about the piece, instrumentation & duration information, a score image and purchasing instructions/links. Some pages also feature a short video introduction and/or performance history of the piece.

Visitors can either go straight to the page that interests them (if they know what they seek); browse the different items under the FEATURED WORKS SUB-MENUS; or check the LIST OF WORKS - BY INSTRUMENT.  Each sub-menu leads to featured works pages.
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MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCES 
Should anyone be interested in screening a silent film during a live performance, please enquire via the Contact page.  Films currently available are The Door of No Return & Ego Flos Campi.  Trans-Atlantic Triptych & Troparion are due out soon. Licensing Restrictions apply.
Recent Action from Nick & Huw!
Renowned musicians Nicholas Daniel & Huw Watkins performed two celebrity lunchtime recitals in a short tour of Yorkshire and Cumbria on the 3rd & 4th of June!
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The New Chevalier Sonata opened their programme: my reworked version of Bologne's unpublished Sonata for Harp with obbligato Flute, possibly composed for harpist Queen Marie Antoinette.
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Monday 03 June at 1300: The Wesley Centre, Harrogate
Tuesday 04 June at 1230: Ulverston Parish Church, Ulverston 
MORE NEW VIDEOS!​
​THE DOOR OF NO RETURN (2020-2021) & NEW CHEVALIER SONATA (c.1779/2022) are multi-instrumental sonatas with perspectives on Black history.
Kathleen Carter Bell and Sarah Rushing's moving & virtuosic interpretation of The Door can be seen in the narrative video, which depicts the programme behind the piece. Sarah Roper and Ignacio Torner's superlative performance of the transcribed sonata by Bologne/Talbot-Howard draws the listener right into the piece. Find out more about The New Chevalier Sonata ...
The new film of Ego Flos Campi presents a great performance by Steph Barker and Leo Nicholson.  Lizzie Knatt & Declan Hickey rehearse for the British premiere of On Walmer Beach, in a new arrangement for Tenor Recorder (or Oboe) & Guitar
Various 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
Elliott Carter (1908-2012) ~ Pastoral (1941)
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.