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’s work at the RCS involves introducing the horn students to the natural horn and other historical horns. Working together, students learn about the techniques and performance practices of these instruments plus discover how this knowledge informs performance on the modern horn.
Anneke began her studies at The Royal Academy of Music and then, specialising in aspects of period horn playing, undertook postgraduate study in France and the Netherlands. She 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, Raphaël Pichon’s ensemble Pygmalion, Harry Christopher’s The Orchestra of the Sixteen, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, and the Dunedin Consort. She is similarly in great demand as a guest principal horn regularly appearing with orchestras and ensembles worldwide including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra and Basel Chamber Orchestra. Anneke enjoys an international solo career and discography embracing three centuries of virtuosic horn works.
In 2010 Anneke was awarded a Gerard Finzi Travel Scholarship to undertake research in Paris in preparation for her ground breaking recording of the Jacques-François Gallay Douze Grands Caprices on natural horn (Resonus Classics, October 2012). This was to form the first disc, Préludes, Caprices & Fantaisies, Concerts Cachés, in a series of three, all featuring the works of Gallay. The second, Jacques-François Gallay: Chamber music for natural horn ensemble, with the natural horn ensemble Les Chevaliers de Saint Hubert, was released in 2013 whilst the third, Songs of Love, War and Melancholy, featuring operatic fantasias with Steven Devine (piano) and Lucy Crowe (soprano) was released in 2015. Her most recent disc Beyond Beethoven was released in 2020.
Anneke enjoys collaborating with a wide group of musicians and is a key member of a number of chamber music ensembles including nineteenth century period brass ensemble The Prince Regent’s Band and the harmoniemusik ensemble Boxwood & Brass. She regularly works with leading period keyboardists including Steven Devine, Neal Peres da Costa, Geoffrey Govier and Kathryn Cok and period harpist Frances Kelly.
She teaches at the Koninklijk Conservatorium – Royal Conservatoire Den Haag, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. 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”.