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”. More information on her work can be found at www.annekescott.com