Latest news from Anneke Scott:
9th of June, 2023
New CD release featuring Anneke as soloist. Irish Baroque Orchestra’s Mr Charles the Hungarian - Handel's Rival in Dublin
A famous French horn virtuoso in his days, the shadowy figure known only as ‘Mr Charles the Hungarian’ was an eccentric opportunist who travelled to Dublin in March 1742. A natural entrepreneur, he capitalized on the ‘Handelmania’ surrounding Handel’s residence in the city at the time, and produced a concert at the Smock Alley Theatre which consisted mainly of Handel’s music.
This album recreates the programme and the bohemian atmosphere of the event, showcasing solos for various instruments, some of which had never been heard in Ireland before. The highly resourceful Irish Baroque Orchestra and Peter Whelan have a proven record of curating enticing programmes inspired by Ireland’s musical heritage, and this is yet another fine example. Together with works by Hasse, Telemann and Bocchi, a performance of John Walsh’s early edition of Handel’s Water Music gives a perfect cross-section of this captivating moment in Dublin’s musical history.
Global release 9th of June, 2023 on Linn Records.
Listen to a rather unusual version of Handel's famous aria "Va Tacito" from this new disc, in which Andrew McGregor on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review praised “Anneke Scott, the fabulously flamboyant horn soloist” from 12:15 here.
4th of December, 2022
Anneke ABC “DuET” interview with Tamara-anna Cislowska
Back in August, midway through a project with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra Anneke snuck in time for a chat with Tamara-Anna Cislowska, which has now been broadcast as part of her ABC Classic "Duet" series.
You can hear the whole interview here.
The broadcast includes music from J.S.Bach's Mass in F (performed by Philippe Herreweghe/Collegium Vocale Gent/La Chapelle Royale Orchestra), Smetana's Ma Vlast (performed by Jiří Bělohlávek & Czech Philharmonic), Steup's Sonata for horn (performed by Steven Devine and myself), J.S.Bach's Cantata BWV118: O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (performed by Ensemble InAlto), Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (performed by Philip Jones Brass Ensemble), Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (performed by Richard Bonynge/National Philharmonic Orchestra) and some Gallay (performed live by Tamara and Anneke).
2nd of December 2022
Smetana: Ma Vlast - Collegium 1704/Václav Luks, New release.
In May 2021 the Czech period instrument ensemble Collegium 1704 and their director Václav Luks were invited to give the opening concerts of the Prague Spring Festival. As is tradition, the work performed was Bedrich Smetana's cycle "Ma vlast" ("My Country"). The 2021 concerts were the second time ever this work has been performed at this festival on period instruments.
The performance has now been released on CD on the Accent label. Read more about this project here.
A short documentary (including interview with Anneke Scott) about the project can be found here.
15th of October, 2022
Anneke Scott - International Horn SOCIETY “HORN Call PODCAST” INTERVIEW
Anneke chats with IHS Horn Call Podcast host James Boldin about her career.
The Horn Call is official podcast of the International Horn Society and is a monthly podcast featuring interviews with Horn Call authors, archived audio from past IHS symposia, and other news and updates in the horn world.
You can listen to this 50 minute episode here (or search for “Horn Call Podcast” wherever you get your podcasts from!).
6th of August, 2022
LAUNCH OF “Corno NOt Corona… continued”
In 2021 Anneke was one of the recipients of the Royal Philharmonic Society, in conjunction with Harriet’s Trust, “Enterprise Fund”. The Enterprise Fund was set up to support musicians in the wake of the pandemic and Anneke’s funding was specifically in order for her to build on “a substantial digital outpouring of insightful, specialist content and films about the horn generated during lockdown.”
Unlike the material under the title “Corno Not Corona” which Anneke created during many of the lockdowns, which mostly focused on unusual, unknown or rare works for horn and piano, new new project set its sights on the classic works of the horn repertoire: Mozart’s Rondo from Horn Concerto in E flat major, K.495, Beethoven’s Sonata for piano and horn Op. 17, Schumann’s Adagio und Allegro Op. 70, Saint-Saëns’s Morceau de concert Op. 94, Glazunov’s Rêverie Op. 24, Dukas’s Villanelle, Hindemith’s Horn Sonata and Poulenc’s Élegie. Accompanied by pianists Steven Devine and Christopher Williams, Anneke also has produced a partner video for each videoed performance in which she explores the background to these works and explains more about the sources used and her approaches to these classic works.
Watch the whole series here.
1st of August, 2022
Anneke appearing as featured artist at the international horn society Symposium
Billed as the biggest horn event of the year IHS54, subtitled “ Untamed Horn”, takes place at the Texas A&M University Kingsville Music Education from Monday 1st of August until Saturday 6th. Anneke will be performing a recital with pianist Lauretta Bloomer (repertoire to include Kuhlau’s Andante und Polacca, Ries Sonata, Steup Sonata and Zeuner’s Variations for horn), giving a masterclass as well as a presentation on the wonderful world of 19th century horn player. Find out more about the conference at www.ihs54.com.
30th of june, 2022
Interview in latest edition of THe Horn magazine
Anneke Scott on Her Beginnings With the Natural Horn - interview with Will Padfield. How does a horn player's interest in the natural horn begin? Anneke Scott, one of the leading specialists in natural horn, talks a bit about this subject in Horn Magazine. www.hornmagazine.online
7th of December, 2021
Release of Recording of Mozart’s Horn Concerto, K 495 on Nomadplay
Recorded in September 2021 with the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie directed by Pieter-Jelle De Boer, this performance of Mozart’s famous concert “No. 4” features Anneke on the modern French horn.
This recording was made specially for the NomadPlay platform which aims to put the listener/performer at the heart of the music they play, allowing musicians to choose from a wide range of mainstream repertoire, play along with instruments in the ensemble and/or mute lines in order virtually “perform” a solo or ensemble part. NomadPlay describes the experience as the place “where listening meets practice”, offering “a unique opportunity to play alongside renowned musicians and orchestras”. Anneke’s recording can be found at www.nomadplay.app here.
12th of August, 2021
Richard SteggalL interviews ANNEKE for the British Horn Society “The Horn Player” Magazine
26th of MAY, 2021
ANNEKE RECEIVES ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY ENTERPRISE AWARD
The Royal Philharmonic Society, in association with Harriet’s Trust, responded to the crisis affecting musicians by creating the RPS Enterprise Fund “offering individual performers and chamber music groups the means to strengthen and transform the extents of their creativity, connectivity, profile and revenue.” In light of both her #CornoNotCorona projects that emerged during the ongoing pandemic Anneke Scott is one of the 87 recipients of the RPS Enterprise Fund which will give her the opportunity “to build on a substantial digital outpouring of insightful, specialist content and films about the horn generated during lockdown.” Anneke is very grateful for the support offered by the RPS and is looking forward to developing this project in the coming months.
Read more about this exciting initiative and her fellow award winners here.
29th of January, 2021
NEW CD “Beyond beethoven” OUT!
Anneke Scott (natural horn) & Steven Devine (fortepiano). RESONUS CLASSICS.
Premiered in 1800, Beethoven’s Sonata in F major, Op. 17 for piano and horn signalled the beginning of an explosion in works for piano and horn duo in the early part of the nineteenth century. Many composers were to follow in the footsteps of the great master in exploiting the versatility and variety of the natural horn in the years that followed. Beyond Beethoven explores four works by close contemporaries, chosen partly due to the connections between the composers, Beethoven and his Op. 17 Sonata, and partly to dispel enduring modern myths about the instrument’s limited options.
Performing on original period instruments (an 1810 cor solo by Lucien Joseph Raoux, and an 1815 fortepiano by Johann Peter Fritz), the disc is a compelling journey through this enlightening corner of the piano and horn repertoire, with works by Ferdinand Ries, Friedrich Eugen Thürner, Friedrich Starke & Hendrik Coenraad Steup.
31St of October, 2020
Bonus #CornoNotCorona Project announced
Following on from the marathon “Corno Not Corona” project which saw Anneke record 191 Bach chorales, one per day throughout lockdown and beyond Anneke is thrilled to announce a “virtual” collaboration with organist Benedict Preece. The pair have just, remotely, completed an EP recording of Bach compositions re-imagined for organ and corno da tirarsi. Release date is currently due for early December and the disc can be pre-ordered here. Read more about the disc here.
30th of October, 2020
New Boxwood & Brass CD “Beethoven Transformed, Vol. 2” released.
Beethoven Transformed presents Beethoven’s music reimagined by his contemporaries for 6- and 9-part Harmonie. Boxwood & Brass reveal how what today are venerated ‘masterpieces’ were once treated with much greater liberty. These fascinating arrangements shed new light on familiar music and display the artistry of the leading wind players of Beethoven’s time.
Beethoven arr. Starke: Egmont Overture op. 84
Beethoven arr. Percival: Egmont Incidental Music Op. 84 (excerpts)
Beethoven arr. anon: Harmonie arrangée de Sonate Pathetique (Op. 13)
Beethoven arr. anon: Symphony no. 7, Op. 92
6th of October, 2020
ANNEKE TO JOIN THE BRASS FACULTY AT TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC, LONDON.
Anneke is pleased to announce that she’ll be joining the professorial staff of the brass department at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music from Autumn 2020. Trinity Laban is one of the UK’s largest conservatoires and the one which combines the disciplines of music and contemporary dance. Anneke’s teaching at Trinity Laban will be in addition to her positions at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the University of Birmingham.
24th of September, 2020
#CornoNotCorona A CHORALE A DAY REACHES tHE FINAL DAY
14th of August, 2020
#CornoNotCorona A CHORALE A DAY REACHES DAY 150
Since March and the beginning of all concerts being cancelled Anneke has been learning and uploading a Bach chorale each day as part of her #CornoNotCorona project. Today marks day 150 of A Chorale A Day. Here is "Die Sünd macht Leid", the first of three chorales from Bach's cantata "Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes" BWV 40. Anneke states “Bach writes for two baroque horns in F in many movements of this cantata using material also found in part four of the Christmas Oratorio but the tonality of the chorales plus the inflections of the melodies makes me question whether he required them to double the soprano line. Works nicely on the tirarsi though! This work was written for the 2nd Day of Christmas and first performed on the 26th of December, 1723.”
1st of July, 2020
ANNEKE SCOTT MASTERCLASS AS PART OF THE 2020 ITALIAN BRASS WEEK
The annual Italian Brass Week has shown enormous imagination and resourcefulness in putting together their event during this tricky time and will be putting on a very special on-line event.
Leading brass musicians from around the globe have donated their time for free to give free virtual masterclasses plus many other special events are planned. Anneke is one of eighteen horn players who will be available for masterclasses as part of this very creative event. Find out more here.
8th of June, 2020
Sarah Willis hosts a special natural horn edition of her Horn hangouts.
Sarah Willis, Roger Montgomery, Anthony Halstead and Anneke Scott will be getting together on Monday 8th of June (2pm London / 3pm Berlin / 9am NYC) to chat about all things natural horn related. Watch this discussion live at www.sarah-willis.com/live/ where you can interact via the live chat box or return to Sarah’s website here at a later date to view this and many more of her interviews.
27th of APRIL, 2020
CORNO NOT CORONA
No element of society has been left unaffected by the current global crisis and the lockdown needed in order for us to try and tackle this terrible illness. Musicians worldwide are coming to terms with the implications of this. With concert halls and transportation closed for the foreseeable future, performing musicians have lost livelihoods and are looking to forge new income streams in order to weather this unimaginable storm.
For the last four years Anneke has enjoyed the opportunity to teach students globally through the Play with a Pro website so, fortunately, had a great deal of experience with online teaching and is currently enjoying opening up her virtual studio to new students. Do check out her page here and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about joining this exciting initiative!
In addition to this Anneke, under the title “Corno not Corona” has set herself two confinement music making challenges. The first is a daily Bach chorale on her corno da tirarsi. This is an instrument with a fascinating history. Whilst we know that the instrument existed in Bach’s Leipzig no instrument is though to have survived. Anneke’s corno da tirarsi is made by the Swiss firm Egger and is based on the research of her colleague Olivier Picon. You can read more on the instrument here in Olivier’s masters thesis. Anneke is working through the liturgical year and you can see all the videos on her youtube channel here.
The second “Corno not Corona” project sees Anneke return to the Gallay Grands Caprices, repertoire she recorded on her first Resonus Classics CD “Jacques-François Gallay: Préludes, Caprices & Fantaisies” back in 2012. These are wonderfully virtuostic and operatic compositions for solo horn and some of the most dramatic music written for the instrument. Each week Anneke is recording a live version of the Caprices and, again, you can see all the videos on her youtube channel here.
13th of April, 2020
France Musique cover Anneke’s “Corno not Corona” corno da tirarsi project!
Read the full report here.
27th of September, 2019
New Boxwood & Brass CD “Beethoven Transformed, Vol. 1” released.
Following on from their universally acclaimed debut album, Music for a Prussian Salon, the period wind ensemble Boxwood & Brass returns to Resonus with the first of two volumes of Beethoven Transformed.
In this major new project, the group explores the status of wind music in early-nineteenth century Vienna through original and arranged music by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) and his contemporaries. In this first disc, Beethoven’s Op. 71 Sextet is paired with the Op. 20 Septet in E-flat major, arranged for six-part Harmonie by his prolific pupil, Carl Czerny (1791–1857).
7th of july, 2019
Anneke receives the International Horn Society’s Punto Award, 2019.
Anneke writes: “Thank you so much to the International Horn Society who bestowed upon me, along with my dear friends and colleagues Jeroen Billiet and Claude Maury, the prestigious Punto Award for 2019.
“The highly successful IHS51 - Moving Horns festival showed just how varied, versatile and active the international horn scene currently is. There is so much for the extended horn community to be excited about! Therefore to be selected for this award really is a big honour.
To be chosen along my dear teacher Claude Maury is very touching. Claude has been a constant inspiration to me from my early days as a natural horn enthusiast when I learnt about his playing through his wonderful recordings (hearing his playing on the Herreweghe/Ghent Collegium Vocale Bach Missa brevis in F major, BWV 233 recording in the late 1990s was eyeopening - the moment when I thought "oh, I want to do that!"), through years of study with him and now as colleagues. I keep on telling Claude that everything I've done is "his fault" and he has never been anything other than generous, supportive, thorough and exacting. A perfect combination of attributes.
And to have been chosen along the indefatigable Jeroen Billiet, one of the masterminds of this most impressive and diverse of festivals, IHS51 - Moving Horns is a huge privilege. At the festival Jeroen kindly pinpointed the length of time we've known one another as being "since the time when the dinosaurs were talking", which in layman's terms is the late 1990s when we were both students. We are more or less exact contemporaries and our camaraderie and friendship over the years has been very important to me. With each of us combining performing, teaching and research careers - Jeroen has always been there with wise advice and often thoughts on the long view. I'm sure he's got an opinion on how that's down to our individual Capricorn and Taurus characteristics (;-) ), but mild teasing aside, I'm so very proud of what he has achieved and to have been selected for this award along with him.
3rd of July, 2019
51st International Horn Society Conference, School of Arts Gent
Anneke will be a special guest of the 51st International Horn Society Conference being held at the School of Arts Gent from 1st-6th of July 2019. She will be performing a recital of compositions by Anton Reicha, Louis-François Dauprat. Martin Joseph Mengal, Frédéric Duvernoy and Jean Baptiste Mengal as well as presenting her new book on natural horn playing. Find out more here.
19th of May, 2019
MU Mentoring Scheme for female Mu musicians launched
Anneke Scott has recently been selected as one of ten mentors for the new female musician mentorship scheme organised by the Musician Union in partnership She Said So.
This project seeks to equip women to address any challenges they may face in fulfilling their career goals in the music industry. A key part of this is ensuring that women have the opportunity to meet, learn and be motivated by positive female role models from within the same industry. Find out more about this scheme here and She Said So here
12th of April, 2019
Help musicians Uk reveals first round of transmission fund recipients for 2019
Help Musicians UK has announced the first set of professional development projects to be supported by its Transmission Fund for 2019.
The Fund will see 15 UK artists each embark on a short-term developmental activity of their choice, ranging from educational camps at Tileyard Studios in Kings Cross and creative retreats in the Scottish countryside, to international collaboration opportunities with Japanese Grime artists in Osaka and high-level Klezmer music courses in Canada and Germany.
Through the Transmission Fund, Help Musicians UK has so far supported more than 100 artists and groups to participate in developmental activities such as short courses in production, song writing camps, composer residencies, masterclasses in creative practice and bespoke one-on-one training in 23 different countries and counting. Recipients get between £500 - £1500 to finance opportunities that allow them to focus on developing their artistic and professional development at a crucial point in their career. The funds awarded can be spent on access fees, travel and accommodation.
The full list of recipients for this round are: Emaé, Angela Elizabeth Slater, Anneke Scott, SHAR, David Booth, De’Borah, Flora Curzon, Giulia Grassi, Guy Connelly, Bellatrix, Me Lost Me, Joseph Havlat, Mayday, Sarah Parkin and Tomas Leakey.
If you know of a short-term opportunity that could help you progress your career as a professional musician, apply now before the next round closes on 8 July.
2nd of November, 2018
New disc: Le cor mélodique: Mélodies, Vocalises & Chants by Gounod, Meifred & Gallay Now Out.
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Gounod, Anneke Scott and Steven Devine perform a programme of works for horn that chart a fascinating and pivotal period in the development of the instrument and its repertoire in nineteenth-century France.
This album features a selection of works composed for both natural and piston horns by Charles Gounod, Joseph-Émile Meifred and Jacques-François Gallay, as well as a Gounod arrangement by François Brémond, all performed on original period horns and a grand piano by Érard. Find out more here.
20th of July, 2018
NEW DISC: LA SERENISSIMA VIVALDI X2 NOW OUT
“Anneke Scott’s prodigious technique scales these heights with ease, negotiating with clarity and assurance clarino pitches which would be terrifyingly insecure even on a modern horn, let alone the specially-commissioned period replica she plays here.” (Presto Classical, Recording of the week, 20th July 2018).
Now out on the Avie label Anneke Scott, Jocelyn Lightfoot and La Serenissima (director Adrian Chandler) perform the Concerto for 2 horns, strings & continuo in F, RV 539 (a.k.a. “the high one”), Concerto for 2 horns, strings & continuo in F, RV 538 (a.k.a. “the low one”) as well as the gloriously named Concerto per S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B. for violin, cello, 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings & continuo in F, RV 574. CD and downloads available from www.avie-records.com.
26th of May, 2018
Academy Honours Announced
The Royal Academy of Music has just announced Anneke as having been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM)
This award is limited to 300 former Academy students, and awarded to those musicians who have distinguished themselves within the profession. Other recipients of the FRAM have included Sir Henry Wood, Dame Felicity Lott and Sir Simon Rattle.
1st of November, 2017
Release of the Prince Regent's Band new disc: Russian Revolutionaries
The Prince Regent's Band (Richard Fomison, Richard Thomas, Fraser Tannock, Anneke Scott, Phil Dale, Emily White, Jeff Miller)
Russian Revolutionaries: Ewald & Böhme marks both the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the launch of period instrument ensemble The Prince Regent’s Band’s (PRB) survey of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Russian brass chamber music.
PRB perform two of the revolutionary Victor Ewald Quintets in their original instrumentation along with works by the versatile composer and cornettist Oskar Böhme, a German émigré to Russia who was caught up in the turmoil of the fall out of the revolution and executed by the Soviet regime.
CD and downloads available from www.resonusclassics.com.
More information on this project can be found at www.princeregentsband.com.
11th of July, 2017
Anneke Scott and The Prince Regent's Band Participating in the HISTORIC BRASS SOCIETY New york conference
Anneke is attending the 2017 Historic Brass Society Conference being held in New York this summer. She'll be presenting two papers; "Observations on the Cor Solo" in collaboration with Prof. Arnold Myers (University of Edinburgh) in the 12.30-14.30 session being held on Thursday July 13th at NYU Kimmel Center, Eisner/Lubin Auditorium, 60 Washington Square South, 4th floor and "The revisionist history of fourth horn solo from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony" in the 8.45-9.15 session being held on Friday July 14th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Uris Center, Sacerdote Hall.
As part of the symposium Anneke will also be performing in a presentation on the Distin Family with The Prince Regent's Band in the 15.15-17.15 session on Saturday July 15th at NYU, Frederick Lowe Theatre 35 W. 4th street and will also be performing a number of the Gallay Caprices as part of the natural horn session 11.15-12.45 on Sunday July 16th also being held at NYU, Frederick Lowe Theatre 35 W. 4th street.
1st of December, 2016
Release of the new Prince regent's band CD "The celebrated DISTIN FAMILY"
The Prince Regent's Band (Richard Fomison, Richard Thomas, Anneke Scott, Phil Dale & Jeff Miller - saxhorns). During the mid-nineteenth century the Distin Family blazed a trail across Europe and North America performing countless concerts and promoting new and exciting designs of brass instruments. thanks to a chance meeting with Adolphe Sax in Paris in 1844, they adopted the new valved brass instruments, and in particular the new saxhorn.
With The Celebrated Distin Family, period brass specialists The Prince Regent’s Band have recreated the lost Distin Family repertoire, performing on their unique collection of original saxhorns and other fascinating brass instruments of the period.
CD and downloads available from www.resonusclassics.com.
More information on this project can be found at www.princeregentsband.com.
11th of November, 2016
RElease of New BOXWOOD & BRASS CD: Music for A Prussian Salon
Boxwood & Brass (Emily Worthington & Fiona Mitchell - clarinet, Robert Percival - bassoon, Anneke Scott & Kate Goldsmith - natural horn)
Making their Resonus Classics and recording debut is the exciting UK period wind ensemble Boxwood & Brass.
The ensemble’s debut recording charts the life and legacy of Prussian court clarinettist Franz Tausch (1762–1817), from a childhood in Mannheim to the intellectual salons of Berlin.
Tausch’s intimate salon pieces capture the dawn of Romanticism, the full flowering of which can be heard in the works of his students, Heinrich Baermann and Bernhard Henrik Crusell.
CD and downloads available from www.resonusclassics.com.
More information on this project can be found at www.boxwoodandbrass.co.uk.
15th of August, 2016
Out now: "Romantic Brass, Französische Hornpraxis und Historisch Informierter Blasinstrumentenbau"
Anneke's chapter "Jacques-François Gallay - Playing on the Edge" forms part of this magnificient new source. 19th century Romantic Brass is a central part of the research at University of the Arts Bern (HKB).The institution focused initially on projects with keyed trumpets and ophicleides prior to turning their attention to the horn in 19th century France. HKB brings together scientists and practitioners from different disciplines: experts from musicology and science work together with performing musicians and instrument makers. The results are then presented at an international conference with invited experts and finally published.
This volume is centered on the HKB research project on the omnitonic horn of Henri Chaussier and further information on the publication and individual chapters can be found here.
18th of March, 2016
Release of new ensemble PYGMALION DISC: Rheinmädchen
Left to right: Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, Raphaël Pichon, Anneke Scott and Chris Larkin.
A fascinating new disc - the brainchild of ensemble Pygmalion director Raphaël Pichon - brings together a number of nineteenth century works and modern transcriptions for horns, harp and female choir inspired by the legend of the Rhine maidens. The disc includes the Brahms op. 14 Vier Gesänge for two horns (Anneke Scott and Joseph Walters), harp (Emmanuel Ceysson) and female voices as well as Wagner's famous Siegfried call and an arrangement by James Wilcox of the funeral march from Götterdämmerung performed by Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon and Chris Larkin on four late nineteenth century rotary horns.
29th of February, 2016
Anneke joins the roster of teachers at www.playwithapro.com "Learn better, play better."
Play with a pro is a website offering live online video lessons with professional, passionate music teachers from around the world. Anneke has just joined their roster of teachers and is therefore now available for lessons in the comfort of your own home! Check out her teaching page here.
2nd of February, 2016.
You can now find Anneke on Encore - the UK’s largest and fastest musician bookings platform.
Find out more at www.encoremusicians.com.
15th of October, 2015
New Discover Danzi Disc Vol. II released
ensembleF2 are pleased to announce the release of their second CD celebrating the life and work of Franz Danzi. Featuring musicians Katy Bircher (flute), James Eastaway (oboe), Jane Booth (clarinet and basset-horn), Anneke Scott (horn), Ursula Leveaux (bassoon) and Steven Devine (fortepiano) the new disc is released on the Devine Music label and includes the Danzi Sonata in E minor Op. 44. Available from Devine Music.
20th of June, 2015
Ironwood and Anneke Scott appear on
BBC Radio 3's In Tune
12th of June, 2015
Ironwood and Anneke Scott anounce their London launch date for Mozart: Stolen Beauties.
Anneke and Ironwood will be performing repertoire from their new disc Mozart: Stolen Beauties at St George's Hanover Square, London on Tuesday 21st of July 2015. Tickets are available in advance from www.wegottickets.com (£10, £5 concessions) or on the door (£12, £8 concession).
Repertoire to include:
Anon - Air varié pour corno (sur "La ci darem il mano").
Giovani Punto - Trois duos in E-Flat Major, Op. A, Deuxième duo.
Michael Haydn - Romance in A-flat major for horn and string quartet.
W.A.Mozart arr. Balham Livius - Concertante for the pianoforte, horn, viola and violoncello arranged from a Sonata by Mozart (‘Kegelstatt’ Trio).
W.A. Mozart’ - Quintet in E-flat major for horn and strings (KV407/386c).
Tickets now available for
St George's Hanover Square, London
from www.WeGotTickets.com
1st of May, 2015
Release of new disc: Another Voice: the operatic fantasias of Jacques François Gallay.
Now available from www.resonusclassics.com featuring Anneke Scott (cor solo by M.A.Raoux belonging to the Bate Collection, Oxford) Steven Devine (grand piano by Érard belonging to the University of Birmingham) and Lucy Crowe (soprano).
20th of April, 2015
Anneke Scott and Steven Devine (piano) perform live on BBC Radio 3's IN TUNE.
In the lead up to the release of the new "Songs of Love, War & Melancholy" disc (1st of May, 2015 on Resonus Classics) Anneke and Steven perform works of Gallay live on Radio 3 and discuss the new disc. Listen here to the broadcast.
16th of April, 2015
New Syrinx disc - Telemann music for oboes, horns and bassoons.
Anneke will be one of the musicians featured on the imminent release of the wind chamber music ensemble Syrinx's new disc. Due for release on the Resonus Classics label on the 1st of May the disc features Belinda Paul (oboe), Ann Allen (oboe), Hanna Geisel (taille), Anneke Scott (horn), Kate Goldsmith (horn), Sally Holman (bassoon), Inge Maria Klaucke (bassoon) and Dan Tidhar (harpischord).
The all Telemann disc includes:
Overture in F TWV 44:7
Overture in C minor TWV 55:c3
Concerto a5 in D TWV 44:2
Overture in B Flat TWV 55:B3
Overture in F TWV 44:14 Les Paysans
Concerts launching the disc will include:
Cambridge: 18th of May, 7.30pm
West Road Concert Hall CB3 9DP
tickets on the door £15/£10
or from Cambridge Corn Exchange 01223 357851
Oxford: 19th of May, 7.30pm
Holywell Music Room OX1 3SD
tickets on the door £12/£10
or from Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305
London: 21st of May, 7.30pm
St Pancras Old Church NW1 1UL
Tickets on the door £15/£12
Fakenham: 22nd of May 6pm
Fakenham Methodist Church NR21 9DX
Tickets on the door £10/£4.50
or from Fakenham Classic Music £9 01328 856582
22nd of March, 2015
Just announced, UK and Australia concerts to mark launch of Mozart: Stolen Beauties.
7.30pm - Friday 1st May, 2015. Newcastle Christ Church Cathedral
7.30pm - Saturday 2nd May, 2015. Glenbrook (Blue Mountains) St Finbar's Church
3pm, - Sunday 3rd May, 2015. Glebe Town Hall, Sydney
6.30pm - Monday 4th of May, 2015. fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
7.30pm Tuesday 21st of July, 2015. London. More details to be announced soon.
1st of March, 2015
Boxwood and Brass
Viennese Harmoniemusik course for Benslow Music
Friday 18th - Sunday 20th Sept 2015.
Anneke will be teaching alongside period-instrument specialists Emily Worthington (clarinet) and Robert Percival (bassoon) on the inaugrial Boxwood and Brass Harmonie course at Benslow Music. Students will have the opportunity pend the weekend immersed in the wind ensemble music of Vienna and Bohemia 1780-1820 on this brand new course in the beautiful surroundings of Benslow Music in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. The course tutors will guide students through works by Mozart, Beethoven and Krommer as well as historical transcriptions of operatic and symphonic music.
Both natural horn and modern horn players of confident grade 6 to conservatoire level are welcome to apply. Further information can be found at: www.benslowmusic.org.
6th of February, 2015
Launch of Mozart: Stolen Beauties disc with Ironwood Chamber Ensemble on ABC Classics.
Mozart left to horn players a lasting legacy of iconic works. Taking one of his most memorable works - Mozart's Quintet in E flat K.447 - Anneke Scott and Ironwood illustrate the various ways in which Mozart’s works have been “appropriated” for the horn, or, in one case how Mozart “appropriated” a work for himself. Through repertoire by Mozart, Michael Haydn, Giovanni Punto and others the musicians explore the golden age of the virtuosic hand horn and the early experimental days of the valve horn.
Anneke Scott - natural and piston horns
IRONWOOD
Alice Evans & Julia Fredersdorff - violins
Nicole Forsyth & Heather Lloyd - violas
Daniel Yeadon - cello
Neal Peres Da Costa - fortepiano
23rd of January, 2015
The "grasshopper" horn
Prior to the launch of the new ABC Classics disc "Mozart: Stolen Beauties" which features Anneke on both piston and natural horn, Anneke explains about the history of the cor sauterelle in this short video.
29th of December, 2014
A taste of things to come!
A late Christmas / early new year present! Here's a glimpse of the new Gallay disc - "Another Voice" which will feature six of his operatic fantasias for horn and piano plus three song settings. Due for release on Resonus Classics in May 2015.
19th of October, 2014
Anneke has just been appointed tutor of natural horn at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
She's looking forward to starting teaching there this Autumn term and to continuing her teaching at the University of Birmingham as well as contributing to the "Informed Performer" performance practice lectures at Trinity Laban.
Read more about her education work here.
1st of September, 2014
The launch of Plumstead Peculiar Press
As part of her recent succesful Kickstarter campaign Anneke produced and published a number of works by the French composer and virtuoso horn player Jacques-François Gallay. Over the last few years Anneke has ammased a library of her own editions of works for horn. Many of the original sources of these works have been hidden away in libraries and she initially produced these editions for her own performances. Seeing the interest that the horn players around the world have had in the editions produced for the Kickstarter campaign it seemed that there was indeed an appetite for new publications of these "peculiar" works and Plumstead Peculiar Press (www.plumstead-peculiars.com) was founded.
RECENT REVIEWS
"Scott is a wonderfully expressive and agile horn player. She goes for, and gets, maximum emotional impact in each piece. Sometimes she is smooth, sometimes raucous, sometimes singing softly, sometimes dancing with bounce, but she is always musically engaged." The Horn Call July 2014
Read more reviews here
