ALTHEA TALBOT-HOWARD
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Commissioners

FANTASIA - LA FOLIA
Commissioning Consortium Members: November 2023 - November 2024

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​LEAD COMMISSIONER
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Dr Rachel Becker, Oboist, Musicologist & Assistant Professor, Boise State University, Idaho, USA  
WORLD PREMIERE: Friday 03 Nov. 2023 at 1800/6 p.m. MDT, USA; Midnight, GMT; 0100 CET (on 04 Nov).
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LIVESTREAM LINK TBA
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BASSOON LEAD (SENIOR COMMISSIONER)
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Dr Conor Bell, Assistant Professor of Bassoon, West Texas A & M University
BASSOON WORLD PREMIERE: Sunday 12 Nov. 2023 at 1500 (3 p.m.) CT; 2100 GMT; 2200 CET  
Mary Moody Northen Hall, Canyon, TX   ​LIVESTREAM LINK TBA
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FLUTE LEAD (SENIOR COMMISSIONER)
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Dr Nicole Molumby, Professor of Music, Boise State University, Idaho, USA 
FLUTE WORLD PREMIERE - TBA
LIVESTREAM LINK TBA
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SAXOPHONE LEAD (SENIOR COMMISSIONER)

Dr Joshua Thomas, Associate Principal Saxophone, The United States Coast Guard Band
SAX WORLD PREMIERE - TBA
LIVESTREAM LINK TBA
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CO-COMMISSIONERS (in order of joining)

​Dr Kathleen Carter Bell, Principal Oboe, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra & Educator, Texas - Recital date TBD, USA

Dr Theresa Delaplain, Assistant Prof. of Oboe, University of Arkansas - Recital date:  01 March 2024 at 1600, SHE Festival of Women in Music, Arkansas, USA
LIVESTREAM LINK TBA
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Dr Blake Johnson, Adjunct Instructor of Oboe, Campbellsville University School of Music, Kentucky - 
Recital date: 29 January 2024 at 2000 Eastern, USA

Dr Anna Pennington, Leader & Principal Oboe, West Point Band, New York - Recital date TBD, USA

Dr Martin Van Klompenberg, Instructor of Bassoon, Challey School of Music, North Dakota State University -  Recital date: 19 March 2024, CT, USA


Sarah Roper, Principal Oboe, Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville & President, International Double Reed Society - Recital date TBA

Ms Lisa Ryoo, Oboist & Final-year DMA student, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA - 
Recital date TBA

Mr Hassan Anderson, Assistant Professor of Oboe, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA -  Recital date TBA

Dr Keith Sorrels, Lecturer in Oboe, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA -  Recital date TBA

Ms Cassandra Bendickson, Bassoonist and Educator, Tucson, AZ, USA -  Recital date TBA


​Ms Amelia Johnson, Oboist and Final Year Student at The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA - Recital date: April 13 2024 at 1930 Central (0130 GMT)
LIVESTREAM LINK: 
https://arts.uiowa.edu/events/senior-recital-amelia-johnson-oboe/2024-04-13.

​CONSORTIUM INFO.
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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 Works - Easy to Intermediate >
      • Chanson de l'Eternel II
      • The Church at Errislannan
      • Deep River
      • Prelude The Seafront & Vallum Mare
      • Thata Nabandji
    • Duo Recital Works - Advanced >
      • Byzantion 2 Through Space and Time
      • Deep River Sonata
      • Dolphins
      • The Door of No Return
      • Ego Flos Campi
      • The New Chevalier Sonata
      • 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
  • About
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  • Byzantion
    • About Byzantion
    • Consortium INFO
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  • ABRSM-AMEB
    • ABRSM Grades
    • 2026 Woodwind Syllabus
    • Strings and Piano (2023-26)
    • 2022 Woodwind Syllabus
    • ABRSM DIPLOMA
    • AMEB DIPLOMAS
  • Press, Gallery & More
    • Ask Althea
    • Press
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  • IDRS & Various
    • Fantasia La Folia Consortium (2023-2024) >
      • Commissioners
      • Consortium Information
      • Fantasia La Folia - Original Page
    • 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
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