Above: Professional Chamber Music
Blue Sahara Crossing & The Lost Tribe - for Oboe (or other woodwind), Viola (or violin) & Piano
Below: Pedagogical Work
​​The Knights' Pavane - ABRSM Initial Grade Violin, Viola, Cello & Double Bass - New Syllabus from 2024 - Lists B:1 & B:3
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Bespoke Scores & Multi-instrumental Scores suited to Strings

Deep River & The New Chevalier Sonata, most Troparion and the violin Fantasia Dodecaphonica scores are available from June Emerson Wind Music.
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​To purchase the remaining scores, please send a message via the Contact Page.
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VIOLIN - BEGINNER/ELEMENTARY
  • The Knights' Pavane - ABRSM Initial Grade from 2024 List B:1
  • The Church at Errislannan
  • Menuetto (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) .  Please see  Grade 2 Descant Recorder item on  the ABRSM page to hear the recording & purchase the ABRSM digital download.  Suitable for early-grade violinists.​
  • Other suitable woodwind scores - such as Colorado Cattle Drive - are available on the ABRSM page

VIOLIN - INTERMEDIATE
  • ​Deep River (in F or E major)
  • Three Melodies from Opus 59 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (1875-1912) (arr. Althea Talbot-Howard) 
  • Andante from The New Chevalier Sonata (in Eb or G major)
  • Troparion ​(in B minor)

VIOLIN - ADVANCED
  • Blue Sahara Crossing & The Lost Tribe
  • Fantasia Dodecaphonica
  • The New Chevalier Sonata
  • Seville Cathedral - A Study in Memory, for Oboe (or other woodwind) & String Trio ​

VIOLA - BEGINNER
  • The Knights' Pavane - ABRSM Initial Grade from 2024 List B:1​

​VIOLA - INTERMEDIATE
  • Troparion (in D minor)​
VIOLA - ADVANCED
  • Blue Sahara Crossing & The Lost Tribe
  • Byzantion I - Hagia Sophia
  • On Walmer Beach (Autumn 2023)
  • ​Seville Cathedral - A Study in Memory (Autumn 2023)​​​​ ​

​CELLO - BEGINNER
  • The Knights' Pavane - ABRSM Initial Grade from 2024 List B:3

​CELLO - INTERMEDIATE 
  • ​Thata Nabandji (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor arr. Althea Talbot-Howard) - also a ​professional encore piece (dur: 1'45")

CELLO - ADVANCED
  • ​Byzantion I - Hagia Sophia
  • The Church at Errislannan (bassoon score in D minor)​
  • ​​The Door of No Return  (bespoke score - ready in June/July)
  • Fantasia Dodecaphonica (bassoon score in G minor)
  • ​On Walmer Beach 
  • ​Seville Cathedral - A Study in Memory 
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DOUBLE BASS - BEGINNER
  • The Knights' Pavane - ABRSM Initial Grade from 2024 List B:3​
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.