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Greetings - and Welcome!
For those of you who don't know me, I am Althea Talbot-Howard, a Composer and former Oboe Soloist, based in London. For nearly ten years, I have been creating new recital and chamber works for woodwind players, from beginner to highly-advanced.  My pedagogical works are published by ABRSM, Schott, Hal Leonard and Cimarron; advanced works are published under my own imprint (Pantokrator Publications).

You can find out more about me here.
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Alongside original compositions you will find several transcriptions of unpublished or little-known pieces by historical composers of African descent, such as Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799); Ignatius Sancho (c.1729-1780); Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912); and Florence Price (1887-1953).​ These composers are represented in both pedagogical and advanced scores.
Beginner to Intermediate Scores
If you are teacher seeking music for younger pupils, I recommend visiting the ABRSM-AMEB menu, which will direct you to the majority of my published pedagogical music. 

Advanced Scores
Kindly scroll down the page for a curated list of Original Duo-Recital Scores, followed by Transcriptions, and finally Chamber Music. Each section contains at least one piece for each woodwind instrument. Click on the score images to go through to the feature pages, where you will find further information, videos and score-purchasing links or instructions. Alternatively, you can go straight to the FEATURED WORKS menu, and take things from there.

Happy music-hunting!  With best wishes, Althea​
Original Recital Works
The Door of No Return
(Oboe/Clt/Sax/Bsn; PIANO) - 13 mins
Ego Flos Campi
(Fl/Rec/Oboe/Sax/Clt; PIANO) - 6'30"
​Fantasia - La Folia
(Flute/Rec/Oboe/Sax/Bsn SOLO) - 8
Byzantion II - Through Space & Time
(Bsn; PIANO) - 5'30"
Byzantion III - Dolphins
(Eng. Horn; PIANO) - 7'00"
Troparion
(Ob/Fl/Sax/Rec; PIANO) - 3'15"
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Transcriptions
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​Deep River
 (Flute/Rec/Oboe/Clt/Sax/ Horn; PIANO) - 4 ​
The Deep River Sonata
(Oboe/Clt/Sax; PIANO) - 10
​The New Chevalier Sonata
(Flute/Oboe/Clt/Sax/Rec; PIANO) - 10
Three Country Dances
(Mixed-Wind DUET) - 4
​Levee Dance
(Clt/Sop.Sax; PIANO) - 2
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Original Chamber Works
On Walmer Beach
Mixed-Wind DUET) - 4
Trans-Atlantic Triptych
Wind/String PIANO TRIO) - 17
​Three-Ply Yarn
(Mixed-Wind TRIO) - 9
​Byzantion I - Hagia Sophia
(EH & Bsn PIANO TRIO) - 5'30"
Rievaulx
(REED QUARTET) - 6'30"
​Seville Cathedral
(Oboe/Clt/Sax & Strings - QUARTET) - 11'30"
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​Prefer a Different Approach?
​Head over to Instagram, to watch a series of curated reels in the Highlights Icons, which will take you through the majority of pieces, in a variety of instrumentations.

​First up is popular work Troparion, based upon Byzantine Orthodox chant.  My arrangement of an unpublished work by Afro-French composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) also features, in considerable detail. 
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.