Anneke Scott (natural horn) and Kathryn Cok (fortepiano) first met
through working with the European Union Baroque Orchestra. A mixture
of mutual friends and a communual desire to explore classical and
romantic repertoire for fortepiano and winds led to them first
collaborating in the chamber music quintet The Etesian Ensemble and
ultimately led to them joining forces as a duo.
Kathryn and Anneke were selected as Making Music's Concert Promoters Network
Artists for 2008/2009 and toured Holland in 2009 as part of the Organisatie
Oudemuziek Netwerk.
Anneke Scott began her studies with Andrew Clark and Pip Eastop at The Royal
Academy of Music, London. Having been awaded prestigious scholarships she
furthered her study of period instruments firstly in France with Claude Maury,
and then in Holland with Teunis van der Zwart.
Since her graduation she has been in demand with ensembles in the UK and
continental Europe. She is principal horn of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and The
English Baroque Soloists, Harry Christopher's The Orchestra of the Sixteen and
The Avison Ensemble and has frequently worked as principal horn with The
Australian Chamber Orchestra, The English Concert, Europa Galante, Freiburg
Baroque, The Early Opera Company, Concerto Caledonia and The Mahler Chamber
Orchestra to name but a few.
For many years she has had a keen in interest in chamber music leading to her
becoming a founder member of The Etesian Ensemble. Through this ensemble she met
the fortepianist Kathryn Cok with whom she formed a duo specialising in
classical and romantic repertoire for horn and fortepiano. In recent years the
duo has been selected as artists for Making Music (UK) and Oude Muziek Netwerk
(Netherlands).
In 2007 Anneke was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of
Music, an honour awarded to past students of the Academy who have distinguished
themselves in the music profession and made a significant contribution to their
field.
"A remarkable musician, authority and expert on a notoriously tricky
instrument, Anneke never forgets that performing is about communicating
enjoyment and having the courage of one's conviction. Concerts with Anneke are
always a musical adventure!"
Andrew Manze.
"In Anneke Scott we have a "natural" horn player in more ways than one. On an instrument which is perilous
at the best of times her technique is such that one is aware only of intellect,
musicianship and a glorious pallet of sound".
Pavlo Beznosiuk.
For more information please visit: www.annekescott.com.
Kathryn Cok pursues a varied career as a harpsichordist, fortepianist and
academic on both sides of the Atlantic. She is well sought after both as a
soloist as well as a continuo player.
Born in the city of New York, USA, Kathryn now lives in The Hague, Holland where
she completed a Masters degree at the Royal Conservatory as a student of Ton
Koopman and Tini Mathot on the harpsichord, and Bart van Oort on the fortepiano. Kathryn recently won first prize in the first solo competition for baroque
instruments in Brunnenthal, Austria.
She works regularly as a soloist and
continuo player with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and other important early
music ensembles in Europe and performs regularly as a soloist in many of the
world's most renowned Early Music Festivals such as Oude Muziek, Utrecht,
Brunnenthaler Concert Zomer, Bodensee Festival, and important keyboard
collections in the UK such as the Cobbe Collection, Finchcock's, Fenton House
and the Gemeente Museum, Holland.
She is co-founder of the Caecilia-Concert, a
dynamic international group of instrumentalists specializing in performance and
research of 17th century music for instruments and voices. Kathryn is busy as a
researcher and teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland.
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