Major Themes:
Black History & Post-Colonialism
Music for Church Recitals
Nature & Culture
Solo Fantasias
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Key
Adv - Advanced
Ea - Easy
​Int - Intermediate
O - Original Work
​O+OC - Original work with Orthodox Chant
​O+PC - Original work with plainchant​
​​​Q - Quartet/Quintet (all-wind, or with strings)
​T&B - Treble & Bass Instruments
TI - Treble Instruments
Tr - Transcription
​UW - Upper Woodwind
​WW - Woodwind
Black History & Post-Colonialism
Works influenced by my Anthropological studies and personal background
All works are Advanced, unless marked otherwise
DUO with PIANO
​Deep River (Tr)
  • Int/Adv:  UW or Horn/Tpt & Pf ​
The Deep River Sonata (Tr)
  • Ob, Clt or Sop. Sax & Pf
​Dahomey Passacaglia
  • Int/Adv: ​ Fl/Alto Rec/Horn & Pf
The Door of No Return (O)
  • Ob/ Clt/Sop. Sax /Bsn/ Vc & Pf
​The New Chevalier Sonata (Tr)
  • Int/Adv: ​ Fl/Alto Rec/Ob/Clt/Alto Sax/Vln & Pf
DUET
Three Country Dances (Tr)
  • Int:  High/Low WW (various)

PIANO TRIO
The Lost Tribe  (O) 
  • Fl/Ob/Clt/Sop.Sax ~ Vln/Vla ~ Pf

WOODWIND TRIO
​The Hidden Neighbour (avail. 2026)​ (O)
  • Fl, Ob d'am, Bass Clt/Bsn; String Trio
Church Recitals
Chamber works designed to enhance recitals in churches: i.e. music which is in full alignment with the aesthetic & values of the venue. 
Such pieces are frequently performed in concert halls, as well - or during church services, in a worship context
DUO with PIANO
​​Byzantion II - Through Space and Time (O)
  • Adv:  Bsn & Pf
​Chanson de l'Eternel II (O)
  • Ea:  TI & Pf
The Church at Errislannan (O)
  • Ea: T&B in C, Bb & Eb with Pf
Deep River (Tr)
  • Int/Adv: UW or Horn/Tpt & Pf 
​​​Ego Flos Campi (O)
  • Adv:  (UW in C & Bb with Pf)
​Troparion (O+OC)
  • Int/Adv:  UW in C, F & Eb with Pf
​PIANO TRIO
​Byzantion I - Hagia Sophia (O+OC)
  • Adv:  CA/EH, Bsn, Pf or TSax, BSax, Pf

​QUARTET
Rievaulx (O+PC)
  • Int/Adv:  Single & Double-reeds in C or Bb, bells
Seville Cathedral  (O)
  • Adv:  Ob. or Sop. Sax with String Trio, bell
Nature & Culture​
DUO with PIANO
Prelude: The Seafront &The Vallum Mare Suite (O)
  • Sop Rec or Alto Rec;  Pf
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DUET
​On Walmer Beach (O)
  • CA (EH) & Bsn
  • Alto & Bari Saxes
  • Tenor Rec/Oboe & Guitar  
  • CA & Bari Sax 
Three Country Dances (T)
  • See listing in Black History section, above
​PIANO TRIO
Trans-Atlantic Triptych (O)
  • 1 Upper Woodwind, 1 Upper String & Pf
Byzantion Cycle (O)
  • CA, Bsn, Pf
  • Tenor Sax, Bari Sax, Pf
  • ​Vla, Cello, Pf

TRIO
Three-Ply Yarn (O) - Available 2026
  • ​Fl, Ob d'am, Bass Clt
  • String Trio ​​
Solo Fantasias  
Combining mid-Baroque with Contemporary Features 
Referenced Composers: Britten, Caccini, Marais, Schoenberg, Telemann, Ysaÿe
​Referenced Author: Orwell
Advanced, with basic extended technique (harmonics in La Folia)
Fantasia Dodecaphonica sopra Amarilli mia bella (O)
  • ​Fl, Ob, Bsn, Alto Sax, SopRec, AltoRec, Cello, Vln​
Fantasia - La Folia (O)
  • ​Fl, Ob, Bsn, Alto Sax, AltoRec
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.