​Canadian Oboist Erin Brophey
​presents the premiere audio recording
​of 

​On Walmer Beach (2022)
​for Cor anglais & Bassoon

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​Streaming on all major platforms

​Released on 15 May 2026
As a recitalist and orchestral player, Erin Brophey shares the joy of music-making with audiences across Canada. Currently Principal Oboe (on sabbatical) of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, she previously held the position of section oboe and English horn with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra for eight seasons. Freelance work has led her to work with several other Canadian orchestras, including the Kitchener-Waterloo, Winnipeg & Toronto Symphony Orchestras; Symphony Nova Scotia; the Regina & Windsor Symphony Orchestras, and the Charlottetown & Elora Festival Orchestras.

As a performer, Erin is interested in the intersection of art forms, and also in offering meaningful cultural experiences to audiences.  As an educator, not only is she a sessional lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, but she also directs community musical initiatives throughout Canada - in addition to running her own education programmes.

To find out more about Erin's profound artistic objectives, kindly click through to her BIOGRAPHY.  Finding Our Connection is her debut recording.
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.