​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 (GMT-6), USA
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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.),  Mary Moody Northen Hall, Canyon, TX 
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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
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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 Professor of Oboe, The University of Arkansas - Proposed recital dates (subject to acceptance):  1) 01-03 March 2024, SHE Festival of Women in Music, Arkansas, USA;  2)  07-09 March 2024, Music by Women Festival, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS, USA
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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, Principal Oboe & Leader of 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: 08 February 2024 (TBC), USA

Ms 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

​CONSORTIUM INFO.
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.