Cheryl Frances-Hoad

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...

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...

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...

Dedicated to the Royal Academy of Music on their 200th Anniversary, this short solo accordion piece is quirkily written in Cheryl's characteristic post-tonal musical vocabulary.

For solo accordion. 10 minutes. First performed on 23 February 2024 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, UK by Mingyuan Ruan.

This work for solo guitar comprises three short pieces inspired by poems in Mina Gorji’s collections Scale and Art of Escape. The insects and arthropods featured in the poems, which inspire each of th...

Farewell to Oxford is a short piano duet (four hands) commissioned by Messiah University and first performed in April 2024.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's 'Dance Suite' for solo piano is an 11 minute piece in five movements, commissioned by Presteigne Festival to be premiered in August 2024.

This Suite for Solo Cello takes inspiration from Kate Kennedy’s wonderful new book, Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound. Each movement tells the story of a different cello: in the first, the mus...

Pieces of Light was commissioned by the Flautadors for their 20 th Anniversary. When the group approached me about writing a piece, I had just finished reading Pieces of Light; The New Science of Memo...

Asphodel is an aria based on Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad to a libretto by Jeanne Pansard-Besson.

Commissioned by Simon Halsey CBE & Jack Apperley at the University of Birmingham for the singers of University Upper Voices. First performed by University Upper Voices directed by Jack Apperley on 11t...

For SATB and organ, commissioned by The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. This four-and-a-half-minute anthem sets text by John Donne. XXVIII. Son of God, hear us, and since Thou By taking our blood...

For TrATB choir and organ. Commissioned for Worcester Cathedral Choir by The Elmley Foundation in memory of Samuel Driver White. Words by P.H.B. Lyon.

Commissioned by Winchester College for the 2020 Choir Schools' Association Conference. First performed by Winchester College Chapel Choir, May 2020 with Howard Ionascu, conductor and Benjamin Cunningh...

For this piece Cheryl Frances-Hoad worked with the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. We'll Sing was commissioned by the Huddersfield Choral Society for those lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this work for a mixed choir of any voices and instruments Cheryl Frances-Hoad sets a text by Molly Naylor. Lasting ten minutes this pieces was premiered by Showstoppers: Choir of a Thousand, conduc...

For mixed choir and saxophone. A setting of Nevill Coghill’s modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s text.

“Cheryl’s carol is a masterpiece in understatement, hauntingly beautiful and so carefully written for the current generation of King’s College Choir.” Daniel Hyde, Director of Music, King’s College, C...

For solo soprano, SATB choir and string orchestra. Written in 2024. Duration: c. 19 minutes. With What Sudden Joy was commissioned by Southwell Music Festival in celebration of its tenth anniversary i...

This short work for wind quintet was composed to celebrate the centenaries of Boulez and Berio. The playful title refers to famous delicacies that are produced in the birthplaces of each composer. It...