Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Punjabi Proverbs was premiered at The Sikh Centre, Leeds on 16th April 2024 as part of the Leeds Lieder Festival by Nina Kanter, soprano, Oscar Castellino, baritone, and Keval Shah, piano. The nine sh...

Based on an excerpt from ‘Larchipel de la Manche (The Channel Islands)’ by Victor Hugo, this 4 minute work for SATB and Organ was commissioned by members of Huanui Music Society Guernsey to mark the e...

A chamber orchestral piece celebrating the lives of five extraordinary women from recent history. This twelve-minute work runs continuously, but has five distinct movements: i) Hedy Lamarr – This 1940...

A setting for unaccompanied mixed voices of the Dismissal Troparion at Vespers. The work was written for Sonoro as part of the Sonoro Choral Inspirations project.

Written in 2021 for the Choir of Merton College, Oxford, as part of Frances-Hoad's role as Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts. These Preces and Responses are written for mixed choir to be u...

Commissioned by Sarah Foot on the occasion of her installation as the first female Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, on 8 July 2023. For SATB chorus a cappella.

Written for the Warden, Fellows and students of Keble College, Oxford, Benedictus Benedicat is a short choral work for SATB.

For ATB choir, this four-minute anthem is a setting of John Donne, commissioned by the Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral with support from The Boltini Trust. First performed on 21 October 2023 at St Paul...

Commissioned by Oriel College, Oxford, to celebrate 40 years of the admission of women to the college, ‘O Maria virgo pia’ is a 5 minute work for SATB choir.

Commissioned and first performed by Sami Junnonen and Male Choir Valkia.

A short work for tenor and piano setting the text of Laura Mucha. The work was commissioned by the Prince Consort and premiered by Andy Staples and Alisdair Hogarth at St. Swithin's, Bath, UK as part...

Commissioned by John Turner for Gordon Crosse's 80th Birthday concert at The Martin Harris Centre, Manchester University, 22nd October 2017. Premiered by Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano) and John Turner (...

This piece for contralto and piano setting a text from Charles Baudelaire was co-commissioned by Oxford Lieder and the Baudelaire Song Project, with the generous support of the Nicholas John Trust, th...

A short work for mezzo-soprano and piano setting the text of former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Andrew Motion

For soprano and piano, commissioned by Carolyn Sampson.

Six Songs of Melmoth was commissioned by Oxford Lieder and is a musical matryoshka inspired by Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin and Melmoth by Sarah Perry. The text was written by Sophie Rashbr...

Commissioned by the Oxford Lieder Festival, for baritone and piano, this song sets text by Charles Baudelaire in an English translation by Eleanor Brown. Premiered by Ashley Riches, baritone and Micha...

Everything grows extravagantly was co-commissioned by Oxford Lieder and the Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum, in celebration of the 20th Oxford Lieder Festival and the 400th anniversary of the Oxford...

A two and a half minute piece for voices and piano, commissioned and first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery Choir conducted by Neil Ferris..One Earth sets a text by Di Sherlock for...

A two and a half minute piece for voices and piano, commissioned and first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery Choir conducted by Neil Ferris..One Earth sets a text by Di Sherlock for...

This aphorism after Aristotle - 13 bars plus a lunga pausa - was written for the wedding of Cheryl and the American trumpeter and percussionist, Brant Tilds, 31 August 2013. The three singers on the o...

Small Journeys' for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano was written with support from the 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford. Each of the five songs represent an inci...

Your Servant, Elizabeth' for choir and orchestra was commissioned for the 2022 Platinum Jubilee celebration at the Proms by BBC Radio 3. The 5 minute work also pays homage to William Byrd’s O Lord, ma...