ALTHEA TALBOT-HOWARD
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Consortium Information

Greetings!

I am delighted to announce that I have been working on some new music for everyone, and that I have now reached consortium-formation stage!  This consortium is somewhat unusual, in that both pieces of music are nearly-complete - although there are several refinements and finishing touches that still need to be made. 

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The two new pieces are the original work Fantasia - La Folia (2023) for solo woodwind instrument (duration: 5-6 mins); and Three Country Dances (1779/2023) by the ex-slave British composer & abolitionist Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780), transcribed for high/low woodwind duet. Dur. 3-4 mins.
Please click on the score images, or go to the Menu, to visit the Feature Page for each piece, for further information, images and videos.
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​This consortium is designed to cover expenses associated with composing Fantasia - La Folia and attending a live performance in the USA in 2024:  and the transcription fee. I am delighted to include, as a bonus gift for both Senior & Co-commissioners, my new transcription of three country dances by Ignatius Sancho!  The Eb arrangement for Alto & Bari Saxes is finished, and received its world debut performance in June, less than one mile away from the site of Sancho's Greenwich Park home (Montagu House), in London.  The video of this performance - delightfully performed by two Trinity Laban Conservatoire students - can be viewed on the Feature Page.  However, I have yet to create the C & Bb scores: and I want to provide mix-and-match parts, so that any combination of instruments can play the piece.  They are beautiful dances (one reel, one courtly dance and one jig) - and the back story behind their composition is quite remarkable.

Fantasia - La Folia, is a companion piece to ​Fantasia Dodecaphonica: but this new work finds its inspiration in Marin Marais' famous Les Folies d'Espagne.  Feature Page

Practicalities

Consortium Opening Date: Sunday 10 September 2023
Closing Date: Sunday 22 October 2023

World Premiere (Oboe) of Fantasia - La Folia: Friday 03 November 2023
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Bassoon World Premiere of Fantasia - La Folia: Sunday 12 November 2023

Flute World Premiere of Fantasia - La Folia: TBA

WANTED!!
Two Senior Commissioners to give the Saxophone & Clarinet World Premieres of ​Fantasia - La Folia

See Feature Page for Benefits 
Please contact me for pricing information
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Unlimited Co-commissioners in Oboe and all other instruments (see Feature Page for Benefits & Price)


Exclusivity Period:
04 November 2023 - 03 November 2024


Only Lead, Senior & Co-commissioners will have access to both pieces during the exclusivity period.  Both scores are scheduled to go on general sale on 04 November 2024
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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
  • Consortium
    • Commissioners
    • Consortium Information
    • Fantasia La Folia
    • Three Country Dances
  • About
  • Featured Works
    • List of Works
    • Solo >
      • Fantasia Dodecaphonica
    • Recital Pieces with Piano >
      • 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
      • Thata Nabandji
      • Troparion
    • Chamber Music >
      • Blue Sahara Crossing
      • Byzantion Hagia Sophia
      • Rievaulx
      • Seville Cathedral
    • Two Motets
  • Music for Strings
  • 2022
    • IDRS >
      • Programme Notes
      • Images
    • Past Premieres >
      • BC 365
  • ABRSM-AMEB
    • ABRSM
    • AMEB
  • Press, Gallery & More
    • Ask Althea
    • Press
    • Publications
    • Gallery
  • Events
  • Oboe CD
  • Score Purchase & Contact
  • IG Archive