Starting September 2024, Anneke Scott, a renowned historical horn player, joins the KC early music community as the new natural horn teacher. Anneke has lots of experience in teaching and performing on various historic horns and she brings unparalleled expertise to its musical journey.
‘It is an immense pleasure that my successor as natural horn teacher will be Anneke Scott. Anneke has been combining a very successful career as a performer with important research and strong entrepreneurial qualities, and is a role model for young natural horn players. I am sure that Anneke will be an extremely valuable addition to our KC early music community and I eagerly look forward to our collaboration.”- Teunis van der Zwart, Head Early Music Department.
Get to know Anneke Scott
Anneke Scott is a leading exponent of historical horn playing. Her work takes her throughout the globe and throughout the centuries of music with a repertoire incorporating music and instruments from the late seventeenth century through to the present day. Anneke is principal horn of a number of internationally renowned period instrument ensembles including Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the English Baroque Soloists, ensemble Pygmalion, The Orchestra of the Sixteen, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Dunedin Consort and Players and many others.
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.
Anneke enjoys collaborating with a wide group of musicians and is a key member of chamber music ensembles including The Prince Regent’s Band, and Boxwood & Brass. In 2018 she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music and in 2019 she was one of the recipients of the International Horn Society “Punto Award”. She is the author of a series of “Historic Horn Handbooks”.
About the Royal Conservatoire
The Royal Conservatoire was founded in 1826. Since the day it was established the link between innovation and tradition has been at the heart of the institute’s activities. Innovation does not come naturally. It is built on tradition. It is the result of establishing educated relationships between traditional views and new ideas. Tried and trusted conventions are naturally cherished, but often also form the point of departure for the urge to innovate. Every day its staff and students dedicate themselves to creating the right climate for both tradition and innovation to thrive.
Bron: Royal Conservatoire The Hague (01-02-2024)