Mozart works for horn and orchestra in chamber music format!
Anneke Scott (natural horn) with
Consone Quartet
Agata Daraškaitė, Magdalena Loth-Hill – violin
Elitsa Bogdanova – viola
George Ross - cello
Mozart Allegro in D (K. 412)
Mozart Divertimento in D major, K.136/125a
Mozart Rondo (Allegro) in D K. 514
Mozart Fragment in E flat KV370b
Mozart Un poco Adagio from Quartet No. 7 in E flat KV160
Mozart Concert Rondo in Eb KV371
Mozart Horn Concerto in E flat KV417
Anneke Scott is a leading exponent of historical horn playing. Her work takes her throughout the globe and throughout centuries of music with a repertoire incorporating music and instruments from the late seventeenth century through to the present day.
She is principal horn of several internationally renowned historical performance ensembles including Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, English Baroque Soloists, ensemble Pygmalion, Orchestra of the Sixteen, Irish Baroque Orchestra, and Dunedin Consort as well as regularly appearing as guest principal with ensembles worldwide.
Anneke enjoys an international solo, chamber and orchestral career performing on a whole range of historic horns. Her expertise in baroque horn repertoire ensures that she is frequently to be heard performing the famous obligato arias of composers such as Bach and Handel as well as solo concertos from this period. Her critically acclaimed solo recordings also include three discs of music by the leading Parisian horn player of the nineteenth century; Jaques-François Gallay.
She enjoys collaborating with a wide range of musicians and is a founder member of The Prince Regent’s Band and of Boxwood and Brass. She regularly works with leading period keyboardists including Steven Devine, Neal Peres da Costa and Geoffrey Govier and harpist Frances Kelly.
In 2018 Anneke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and in 2020 she was awarded the International Horn Society's Punto Award. In 2021 she was awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society “Enterprise Fund” grant that financed a series of filmed performances of key works in the horn repertoire which can be found on her YouTube channel or via her website. www.annekescott.com
The first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of classical and romantic repertoire.
Their debut recording of Haydn and Mendelssohn was described by The Strad as an album “that instantly leaps out of the stereo at you as something special.” This year they released their first album from a new partnership with Linn Records, recording the complete string quartets of Felix Mendelssohn.
Formed at the Royal College of Music in London, the Consone Quartet launched their professional career in 2015, shortly after which they were awarded two prizes at the 2015 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition. They went on to win the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Prize, and in 2022 were awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust (BBT) fellowship.
The quartet has been enthusiastically received at London’s Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, St John’s Smith Square and St Martin-in-the-Fields, and at the Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Brighton, and Buxton Festivals, amongst others. The English Haydn Festival and and York Early Music Festivals have been loyal supporters over the past few years and regularly host the group.
Further afield, Consone have been invited to perform at the Heidelberg String Quartet Festival, Philharmonie de Paris and Auditorium de Lyon, at the Concertgebouw Brugge, AMUZ and de Bijloke in Belgium, Concerts d'été à St Germain in Switzerland and at other venues across Italy, Austria, Bulgaria and Slovenia. Following a tour to South America in 2018 they made a highly anticipated North American debut in February 2023.
The Consone Quartet enjoys a rich portfolio of collaborative partnerships, most recently including Justin Taylor, Steven Devine, Alexander Gadjiev, Anneke Scott, Mary Bevan and Colin Lawson. Music education remains a core interest to the group, having worked with students at the Royal College of Music in London, Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Hans Keller fellows for 2020-2022.
This year's projects include the premiere of a new work by Gavin Bryars for string sextet, debuts at the Heidelberger Streichquartettfest and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany and tours to Belgium, Canada and Poland.