Cheryl Frances-Hoad

A short work for soprano, baritone, vibraphone and piano setting the librettist Tamsin Collison's text about online dating.

A work for Clarinet and String Quartet commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts. First performed by Rozenn Le Trionnaire (clarinet) and the Albion Quartet on 24th August 2019 at S...

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

A three-and-a-half-minute work for upper voices commissioned by Peterborough Voices with funding from Arts Council England. Frances-Hoad sets a text by Gregory Warren Wilson, who says of his poem: The...

This six-minute setting of the Evening Canticles by Frances-Hoad is for mixed chorus a cappella. It was written by the composer with support from the 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative...

Written for the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, this piece for SATB choir was commissioned by the Master and Fellows of the college. Frances-Hoad sets a text by the French teacher and writer, C...

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

Soprano Saxophone. The Wrath Of Troilus Soprano Saxophone Part

Scenes from the Wild is a Song Cycle for Tenor and Chamber Orchestra, based on the book by Dara McAnulty: Diary of a Young Naturalist. The diary, March 2018-19, begins with an echo of Dara's early mem...

This setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis was written by the composer with support from the 2021 Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford. Duration: 5 ½ minut...

A three-minute anthem commissioned for Gonville and Caius Chapel Choir by The Peter Tranchell Foundation to mark the centenary of his birth (in 1922).

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...

For piano and Commodore 64, Game On, Cheryl Frances-Hoad writes, 'was inspired variously by Game Theory, Commodore 64 gaming music, the stock market and financial crash, and the constant presence of t...

Written for the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, this piece for SATB chorus and harp was commissioned by the Master and Fellows of the college. Frances-Hoad sets a text by the French teacher and...

Written for the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, this piece for SATB choir and harp was commissioned by the Master and Fellows of the college. Frances-Hoad sets a text by the French teacher and...

Thinking I Hear Thee Call by Cheryl Frances-Hoad is inspired by the life of Florence Attridge, an Essex woman who, whilst working at the Marconi factory in Chelmsford during WWII, helped to make secre...

Vocal Score. The Cage without Birds, for mixed children's choir, saxophone and organ, written for Sam Corkin's Palimpsest project, takes Schumann's Wehmut as its starting point. Schumann's song, from...