Rachel Becker visited the UK earlier this year, and recorded Fantasia Dodecaphonica, as a surprise - in my own College chapel, no less!  
​She is currently Assistant Professor of Musicology & Oboe at Boise State University in Idaho, USA.  She received her PhD. & M.Phil from the Universities of  Cambridge and Oxford; and her performance masters from the Cincinatti CCM. Follow her on Instagram!
Exciting New Performances!!!
Alexandra Gordon & Troparion  Mekhi Gladden & The Door of No Return​
​​Alexandra is a Masters student at the
​University of Nevada, RenoMekhi graduates this year from the
​Curtis Institute of Music, PhiladelphiaPlease click on the video/photographs to watch the performances.
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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.