New Chamber Music for Oboe, Viola & Piano!
Blue Sahara Crossing & ​The Lost Tribe
... received their world premieres on Saturday 5th February 2022 in person at An die Musik in Baltimore, MD, USA.
Watch the trailer above to find out more...
'Rievaulx' Saxes Stun at Trinity! ​
Big thanks to Natacha Hansen, Louis Suc, Steph Barker, Lily Skinner & percussionist Ben Quilter for their premiere of the Saxophone Quartet (with Tubular Bells) version of Rievaulx - A Study in Memory - and to their coach, Professor Melanie Henry.  The moving and accomplished performance took place in the Old Royal Naval College Chapel at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in Greenwich on Tuesday 9 November 2021.  
Photo credits:  Althea Talbot-Howard (1 & 3); Wikimedia Commons (2 & 4)
Many thanks to all involved in the world premiere of 
Rievaulx - A Study in Memory 
​at the North Yorks Moors Festival, UK on 18th August 2021
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​Oboists Michael Sluman, Eleanor Sullivan, Drake Gritton & Fergus McCready relax after the concert at St. Hilda's Church, Whitby, N. Yorkshire on 18-08-2021. 

Solo Oboist Nicholas Daniel presented them; accompanied by Festival Director Jamie Walton. 
​Photo credit: N. York Moors C.M.F.
ABRSM NEW WOODWIND SYLLABUS
from 2022
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Althea is delighted to announce that 9 licensed pieces, arrangements & a commission feature on the new woodwind syllabus, published on 08 July 2021. 
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Her pieces are spread between the Clarinet, Saxophone, Recorder & Oboe Syllabuses; are available in either anthology or downloadable form; & have been published directly by ABRSM.
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.