Both Current Consortia are now Closed.
However, SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES are still available.
Kindly send a message, should you wish to discuss this option.
To find out more about the artistic conception behind 
Byzantion I, II, III & IV, ​
a new cycle of pieces for
​​English Horn, Bassoon & Piano OR
Tenor & Bari Saxes & Piano,
in different combinations, visit​
​ABOUT BYZANTION
Byzantion II ~ Bassoon/Bass Clarinet/Bari Sax & Piano
WANTED!!  Co-commissioners to give STATE & NATIONAL PREMIERES during 2024-2025!

CONSORTIUM DATES & FEES
Consortium Opened: Tuesday 4 June 2024
World Premiere at IDRS (Past Event): Tuesday 23 July 2024 at 1015 in Kitt Recital Hall, NAU, AZ, USA
FINAL CLOSING DATE: Sunday 17 November 2024

PDF Score & Part sent out by email: from Friday 09 August 2024*
*alternative scores for Bari Sax & Bass Clarinet - available upon request
Exclusivity Period: Until 10 June 2025
​Only co-commissioners will be able to play the piece, until the exclusivity period ends
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Co-commissioners’ names are listed at the front of the score, and also on this website. ​​
Included in the package: BONUS SCORES & major discount on The Door of No Return!
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Co-commissioners are offered one or two free scores, as follows:

Option One – 1 Work for Piano Trio 
A free PDF score & parts of Byzantion I – Hagia Sophia for EH, Bassoon & Piano ​
Option Two: 2 High-Low Duets
​A free PDF score of On Walmer Beach  for English Horn/Alto Sax/Oboe; & Bassoon/Bari Sax/Guitar. Please see feature page for score options)
​PLUS ...
​​Three Country Dances by Ignatius Sancho for Oboe/Alto Sax; & Bassoon/Bari Sax/Bass Clarinet
On Walmer Beach is an original work, whilst Three Country Dances is my new transcription of three short pieces by ex-slave British composer Ignatius Sancho. They are beautiful dances (one reel, one courtly dance and one jig) - and the back story behind their composition is quite remarkable.  Videos of both works can be viewed on their Feature Pages.  

​Please let me know your required instrumentation.  Many thanks.
PROMOTIONAL OFFER for Co-commissioners, only: 50% OFF The Door of No Return at June Emerson Wind Music!
Find out more about The Door of No Return for Bassoon & Piano
CLOSING OFFER - PRICES
CLOSING OFFER: $10.00 (£7.50) OFF BOTH RATES - until 17 NOVEMBER!
FULL OFFER PRICE:  US$115.00/£87.50  OR
STUDENT  OFFER PRICE: US$89.00/£67.50
Standard Rate: US$125.00/£99.00 
Student Rate: $99.00/£78.00
TO BECOME A SPONSOR...
Please send a message via the CONTACT page. Many thanks. ​
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.