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Althea Talbot-Howard
Composer & Multi-instrumentalist
Former Oboe Soloist
"A superb oboist", Gramophone
Working out of London, UK
New Recital & Chamber Music for Woodwind, String, Brass & Piano
Professional & Pedagogical Music
Digital Content
45-50 performances per annum, worldwide​
Composition &...
Adjudication (Tertiary-level)
Coaching & Public Speaking
Composition & Woodwind Masterclasses
Performance of Own Scores (Recorder & Viola)

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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.