First three image credits - Photo: Ora Singers
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Photo: A.J.B. Cremer
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Photo: A.J.B. Cremer
In November 2016, Music Discovery pupils won 12 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals!
In November 2015, Music Discovery pupils won 8 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze medals.
Many other pupils gained Honours and Merit certificates.  Many congratulations to all who participated!
For child protection reasons, no names accompany the photographs.
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.