Featured Artist

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 ensemble 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, and the Dunedin Consort and Players and many others. She is similarly in great demand as a guest principal horn regularly appearing with orchestras and ensembles worldwide. 

Anneke enjoys an international solo career and discography embracing three centuries of virtuosic horn works. 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 focusing on the music of the leading Parisian horn player of the nineteenth century; Jaques François Gallay and, most recently, “Beyond Beethoven”, a recording of works for natural horn and piano written in the wake of Beethoven’s sonata for these instruments. 

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, the harmoniemusik ensemble Boxwood & Brass, historic wind ensemble Syrinx and ensembleF2. 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 Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, University of Birmingham and on the online teaching platform Play with a Pro.  In 2019 her first volume of a series of “Historic Horn Handbooks” centered on the natural horn was published with future volumes focusing on baroque and early valve horns planned for the coming years. 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”. In 2020, in light of her “Corno not Corona” lockdown projects, Anneke was a recipient of Royal Philharmonic Society Enterprise Award which led to a series of filmed performances and commentary on a cross section of key works for horns from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.