Cheryl Frances-Hoad

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...

Saxophone Part. 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, fr...

Vocalise was written for The Purcell Composition Prize 1994 and first performed by Sheherazade - Verona Chard (soprano), Denise Dance (flute) and Fiona Clifton-Welker (harp) at the Purcell Room, Londo...

Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s concerto for saxophone, composed for alto saxophone, percussion and strings, inspired by various cutting edge mathematical principles which Frances-Hoad’s friend Professor Yang-H...

Cheryl Frances-Hoads Konzert für Saxophon, komponiert für Altsaxophon, Schlagzeug und Streicher, inspiriert von verschiedenen hochmodernen mathematischen Prinzipien, von denen Frances-Hoads Freund Pro...

Vocal Score for baritone and orchestra. Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by Marcus Farnsworth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins on 30th November 2018 at the Ba...

Study Score for baritone and orchestra. Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by Marcus Farnsworth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins on 30th November 2018 at the Ba...

A ten-minute work for TTBB chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Changed Voices Chorus to celebrate their 20th anniversary season in 2025/26. Words by Kate Wa...

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...

Sorores (‘Sisters’ in Latin) is an 8-minute work for vibraphone and strings. It is in four connected sections, with a short cadenza for the vibraphone in the final part.

A fanfare for three trumpets written for and performed at the ceremony to formally admit Professor Irene Tracey, CBE as the 273rd Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

Odysseus weeps, a five-minute work for violin and piano, was written very instinctively in reaction to Book 8 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus is brought to tears by the tales of the blind bard Demodocu...

Erbsenrondo

A ten-minute work for TTBB chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Changed Voices Chorus to celebrate their 20th anniversary season in 2025/26. Words by Kate Wa...

Commissioned by Temple Music Foundation. First performed on 20th September 2022 at Temple Church, London by the Temple Singers conducted by Thomas Allery.

A short carol for SATB chorus divisi setting a traditional text, commissioned by the Musicians' Company and premiered in 2017. The score includes a rehearsal piano accompaniment.

Sorores (‘Sisters’ in Latin) is an 8-minute work for vibraphone and strings. It is in four connected sections, with a short cadenza for the vibraphone in the final part.