The LIFT Anthology, published in 2023, is designed for the advancing horn player and above. It contains 18 pieces in total: 12 original works by living composers, and 6 transcriptions of music by historical Black composers.

Althea's contributions are two transcriptions of music by Chevalier de Saint-Georges & Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,
​and an original work, Dahomey Passacaglia.  

The project leader is hornist and advocate, Margaret McGillivray. ​
In the video above, Margaret McGillivray and Elizabeth Hill perform Dahomey Passacaglia for Horn & Piano
Anne Howarth and Julia Carey perform Deep River by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor arr. AT-H (1904/2022) in recital in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27 January 2024.
Both digital and printed editions are available from June Emerson Wind Music, or from Cimarron Music Press in the USA.
Natasha Buckman & Collaborator perform Dahomey Passacaglia from Lift! Horn Solos, with the Silent Film:
Longy School of Music of Bard College, Cambridge, MA, USA on 15 May 2024.

​Please click here to find out more about the Silent Performance Film.
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.