Historic Brass Society recognises Anneke Scott with annual award

The Historic Brass Society, an international organisation dedicated to uniting and educating players and lovers of early brass instruments around the world, has awarded London-based period multi-instrumentalist Anneke Scott the 2026 Christopher Monk Award.

Named after the prominent English musicologist and instrument maker Christopher Monk (1921–91), the award was established by the HBS to ‘recognise scholars, performers, instrument makers or teachers who have made significant and lifelong contributions to study and/or performance in the field of brass history’. Awarded annually since 1995, notable previous British recipients include Crispian Steele-Perkins and John Wallace OBE.

Scott’s pedigree as a performer, researcher and educator cements her status as one of the world’s most recognisable natural horn professionals. Alongside a raft of principal chairs with orchestras in the UK and further afield, she is internationally in demand as a soloist and has a wide-ranging discography of historical works for horn.

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^{Anneke Scott and Steven Devine perform Beethoven’s Sonata in F for horn and fortepiano, Op. 17.}

Scott is also very active in promoting historical brass on social media, posting light-hearted musical content, including pictures of horns and horn players in architecture around the world, and photos and videos of the instruments she is researching, to her many thousands of followers.

Scott has published numerous articles on horn performance practices and instrument designs, including The mystery of Bach’s ‘unicorn’ (on the subject of the long-lost ‘corno da tirarsi’) for Continuo Connect.

Hear Anneke Scott perform with the Musical & Amicable Society in Handel's dramatic oratorio Samson on 18 April at Southwell Minster, and view upcoming events in her Plumstead Peculiars series in southeast London. Learn more about the Historic Brass Society on their website.