IDRS 53rd CONFERENCE
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21-25 July 2024

Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

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Monday 22nd July at 4 p.m., Kitt Recital Hall
The Bassoon Works of Althea Talbot-Howard

Conor Bell, Bassoon & Tiantian Liang, Piano

1) Fantasia Dodecaphonica sopra Amarilli mia bella for solo bsn 
2)The Church at Errislannan for bsn & pf
3) The Door of No Return for bsn & pf
Tuesday 23rd July at 1015, Kitt
Near and Far: Journeys Through Time for Oboe and Bassoon
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Kathleen Carter Bell, English Horn; Conor Bell, Bassoon; Tiantian Liang, Piano

Byzantion I - Hagia Sophia for EH, Bsn, Pf (50-for-50 Commissioning Grant, 2022)
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Byzantion II - Through Space & Time for Bsn, Pf:  WORLD PREMIERE​​
Wednesday 24th July at 1100, Kitt
Les Folies
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Rachel Becker & Keith Sorrels, Oboes (shared performance)  
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​​Fantasia - La Folia (2023)​
Wednesday 24th July at 7.30 p.m., Ardrey Memorial Auditorium
Chamber Music Gala

Seville Cathedral, A Study in Memory for Oboe & String Trio with Aluphone Bell
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Sarah Roper, Oboe;  Brian Krinke, Vln; Jacqueline Schwandt, Vla; Eric Lenz, Vc
Thursday 25th July at 2.30p.m., Kitt
Original & Transcribed Works by Althea Talbot-Howard
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Lisa Ryoo, Oboe/English Horn; Eugene Ryoo, Baritone Sax;
Tiantian Liang, Piano
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1) I. Sancho (1729-1780) arr. AT-H: ​Three Country Dances for Ob. & Bari Sax 
2) On Walmer Beach for EH & Bari Sax
3) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) arr. AT-H: The Deep River Sonata (Ob/Pf)
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.