ALTHEA TALBOT-HOWARD
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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 
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Feature Page for that piece.


Pedagogical music can be purchased via the ABRSM Page

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The LIST OF WORKS BY THEME groups pieces
together thematically, to assist with programming.
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MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCES 
Anyone interested in screening a silent film during a live performance should 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.

New WORLD PREMIERE!
Three-Ply Yarn premiered online on Thursday 13 March 2025!
Find out about this unusual new trio for Flute, Oboe d'amore & Bass Clarinet by clicking on the image below.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
150th Anniversary Year - 2025!

Check out these recent transcriptions for melody instrument & piano, below, and feature them in your recitals, during 2025!

RECENT 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
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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. 
  • Home
  • Featured Works
    • List of Works by Instrument
    • List of Works by Theme
    • Solo Works (1 player) >
      • Fantasia Dodecaphonica
      • Fantasia La Folia
    • Duo Recital Pieces with Piano >
      • Byzantion 2 Through Space and Time
      • Chanson de l'Eternel II
      • The Church at Errislannan
      • Deep River
      • Deep River Sonata
      • The Door of No Return
      • Ego Flos Campi
      • The New Chevalier Sonata
      • Prelude The Seafront & Vallum Mare
      • Thata Nabandji
      • Troparion
    • Duets >
      • On Walmer Beach
      • Three Country Dances
    • Chamber Music (3+ players) >
      • Byzantion Hagia Sophia
      • Rievaulx
      • Seville Cathedral
      • Three-Ply Yarn
      • Trans-Atlantic Triptych
    • LIFT: Solos for Horn by Black Composers
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  • Consortia
    • Byzantion II - Through Space & Time >
      • About Byzantion
      • Consortium INFO
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    • Byzantion III - Dolphins >
      • Dolphins
      • Members
    • Fantasia La Folia Consortium (2023-2024) >
      • Commissioners
      • Consortium Information
      • Fantasia La Folia - Original Page
  • ABRSM-AMEB
    • ABRSM
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  • Press, Gallery & More
    • Ask Althea
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  • IDRS & Various
    • IDRS 2024
    • IDRS
    • Programme Notes
    • 2022 Conference Images
    • BC 365
    • IG Archive
  • CDs
    • From Leipzig to London Oboe CD
    • Seville Cathedral Composition CD
  • Synch Licensing
  • Score Purchase & Contact