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BYZANTION II - Through Space...
LEAD COMMISSIONER:

Dr. Conor Bell
WORLD PREMIERE
23 July 2024 at 1015 a.m.
Kitt Recital Hall, NAU
Flagstaff, AZ, USA
53rd IDRS Conference
SECOND PERFORMANCE
27 August 2024 at 1930
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Faculty Showcase
​Northen Recital Hall
WTAMU, Canyon, TX, USA

CO-COMMISSIONERS (in order of joining)
​(CONSORTIUM CLOSED)
Mr Benjamin Coelho - Professor of Bassoon, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.  Recital date TBD

Dr Joseph Swift - Principal Bassoon, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes; Educator & Curator, New Jersey, USA.  
Recital date TBD

Dr Margaret P. Fay - Assistant Teaching Professor of Bassoon, Penn State University; Chamber musician, Canada & USA.  Recital date TBD

Dr Michael Harley - Professor of Bassoon, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; Recitalist & Chamber musician. Recital date TBD

Dr Jeff McCray - Instructor of Bassoon at the Metropolitan State University of Denver & Principal Bassoonist, CO, USA. Recital date TBD

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​BYZANTION III - Dolphins
LEAD COMMISSIONER:

​​Dr. Kathleen Carter Bell
​​World Premiere
Wednesday 12 November 2025
with Sarah Rushing, piano

WTAMU, Canyon, TX, USA
Live-stream: 1800 CT, Link TBA​

CO-COMMISSIONERS (in order of joining)
​(CONSORTIUM CLOSED)
Dr Jillian Camwell - Assistant Professor of Oboe, Troy University, Alabama, USA

Nicholas Daniel - International Soloist, Chamber musician & Pedagogue, UK

Denise Wilson - Principal Oboe, Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra, Arizona, USA

Erin Brophey - Principal Oboe, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Saskatchewan, Canada

Dr Scott Erickson -
Assistant Professor of Oboe, The University of Central Oklahoma, OK, USA

Mr Richard Killmer - Professor of Oboe, The Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York USA

Dr Shane Werts - Assistant Professor of Oboe, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA

Ms Amelia Johnson - Masters Student & Teaching Assistant at The University of Kentucky, USA

Dr Blake Johnson, Adjunct Instructor of Oboe, Campbellsville University School of Music, Kentucky, USA


Ms Lisa Ryoo, Oboist & Final-year DMA student, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Dr Theresa Delaplain, Assistant Prof. of Oboe, University of Arkansas, USA

Dr Rachel Messing, 
Assistant Professor of Oboe and Music History, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA

​Mr Theo-Hans Kuijvenhoven, Recitalist and Contemporary-Music Advocate, The Netherlands

Dr Susan Miranda, Visiting Assistant Professor of Oboe, Oklahoma State University & Chamber musician, USA

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​BYZANTION IV - Apokalypsis

​LEAD COMMISSIONERS:

Drs. Kathleen & Conor Bell
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CONSORTIUM IS NOW OPEN!

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​​World Premiere
July 2026 (TBC)
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CO-COMMISSIONERS (in order of joining)

​Mr Theo-Hans Kuijvenhoven - Oboe Recitalist and Contemporary-Music Advocate, The Netherlands

Dr Jillian Camwell - Assistant Professor of Oboe, Troy University, Alabama, USA

Dr Sarah Wildey - 
Senior Lecturer of Bassoon, Music History & Literature, UTSA, Texas, USA

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Dr Joseph Swift - Adjunct Bassoon Professor, Rowan University; Principal Bassoon, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes; New Jersey, USA

Dr Scott Pool - Bassoonist & Associate Professor of Music, 
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, USA

Dr Sara Renner - Assistant Professor of Oboe and Music History, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, USA

Mr Tyrell Hardlottte - Final-year Oboe Performance Student, The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

​Mr S. Blake Duncan -
Lecturer in Oboe & English Horn, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, IL, USA

Dr Angeli Mari Nicholas - English hornist, USA

Dr Ian Resurreccion - Bassoonist, USA​
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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. 
  • Home
  • Featured Works
    • List of Works by Instrument
    • List of Works by Theme
    • Solo Works (1 player) >
      • Fantasia Dodecaphonica
      • Fantasia La Folia
    • Duo Recital Works - Easy to Intermediate >
      • Chanson de l'Eternel II
      • The Church at Errislannan
      • Deep River
      • Prelude The Seafront & Vallum Mare
      • Thata Nabandji
    • Duo Recital Works - Advanced >
      • Byzantion 2 Through Space and Time
      • Deep River Sonata
      • Dolphins
      • The Door of No Return
      • Ego Flos Campi
      • The New Chevalier Sonata
      • Troparion
    • Duets >
      • On Walmer Beach
      • Three Country Dances
    • Chamber Music (3+ players) >
      • Byzantion Hagia Sophia
      • Rievaulx
      • Seville Cathedral
      • Three-Ply Yarn
      • Trans-Atlantic Triptych
    • LIFT: Solos for Horn by Black Composers
  • About
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  • Byzantion
    • About Byzantion
    • Consortium INFO
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  • ABRSM-AMEB
    • ABRSM Grades
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    • Strings and Piano (2023-26)
    • 2022 Woodwind Syllabus
    • ABRSM DIPLOMA
    • AMEB DIPLOMAS
  • Press, Gallery & More
    • Ask Althea
    • Press
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  • IDRS & Various
    • Fantasia La Folia Consortium (2023-2024) >
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      • Fantasia La Folia - Original Page
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