Cheryl Frances-Hoad

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...

This work for soprano and string quartet was premiered at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on the 18th November 2019 by Carola Darwin and the Gildas Quartet. Commissioned by Carola Darw...

This work for soprano and string quartet was premiered at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on the 18th November 2019 by Carola Darwin and the Gildas Quartet. Commissioned by Carola Darw...

Commissioned by Fenella Humphreys with funding from The Marchus Trust First performed by Fenella Humphreys (violin), Ben Griffiths (double bass), Murray Grainger (accordion) and George Barton (percuss...

For mezzo-soprano voice and bass clarinet. How to Win an Election was commissioned by Ian Mitchell and premiered by Alison Wells and Ian Mitchell at St. Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford on 22 January 2018...

Scenes from Autistic Bedtimes (2012-13) is a ten minute work scored for treble, soprano, vibraphone, cello and piano, setting text by Stuart Murray

This short song for mezzo-soprano, cello and piano takes its inspiration from medieval medical practices. It sets text found in the Lacnunga, a collection of Anglo-Saxon medical texts and prayers, for...