Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Karen Crane's One Small Light is a heartfelt and inspiring piece for three-part mixed voices, perfect for concerts with themes of hope and perseverance. With a gentle yet uplifting melody, this song e...

Earlene Rentz's Ring Out, Wild Bells brings Alfred, Lord Tennyson's hopeful New Year's poem to life with energy and joy. Inspired by church bells ringing out the old year and welcoming the new, this s...

Drawing primarily from the soundscape of a gently sweeping Mixolydian mode, this piece is designed to remind the listener of the distant past and its connection to our present. This SAB setting offers...

Wake Me a Song, composed by Farnell and inspired by Abram Joseph Ryan's evocative poem, is a stirring tribute to Kay Owens' remarkable 41 years in music education. This heartfelt piece celebrates the...

Two Human Hymns comprises of settings for six-part choir and organ of two poems by 17th century English poets who are almost exact contemporaries; George Herbert and Henry King. The music for the choi...

All The Ends Of The Earth is a choral motet written for a Europe-wide radio broadcast on Millennium Day 1st January, 2000. It is based on Perotin's organum Viderunt Omnes. Scored for S. A. T. B. choru...

Three short choral settings of peoms by George Herbert, commissioned by The Spitalfields Festival in memory of Peter Lerwill, a generous supporter of the festival. The first performance of the set too...

This work was commissioned by the BBC. It was first performaed in 11 August 1995, as part of a Henry Wood Promenade Concert at teh Royal Albert Hall, London, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC...

Stars, Night, Music And Light was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed at the BBC Proms on 15th July 2011. Vocal score. The performance was given to open the First Night of the Proms at th...

Stars, Night, Music and Light for chorus and orchestra was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed at the BBC Proms on 15th July 2011. The performance was given to open the First Night of the...

Commissioned by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, to mark the centenary of 'A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols'. First performance on 24th December 2018 at King's College Chapel, given by the...

A setting of the Marian hymn for mixed voices and organ, commissioned for Malcolm Munro and the Choir of St Mary the Virgin, Dover. The first performance was in 1 December 2019.

The Big Picture was written to celebrate the completion of a major redevelopment and refurbishment to Aberdeen Art Gallery. Wishing to examine a subject important, in different ways, to both the visua...

The Big Picture was written to celebrate the completion of a major redevelopment and refurbishment to Aberdeen Art Gallery. Wishing to examine a subject important, in different ways, to both the visua...

The Big Picture was written to celebrate the completion of a major redevelopment and refurbishment to Aberdeen Art Gallery. Wishing to examine a subject important, in different ways, to both the visua...

The Big Picture was written to celebrate the completion of a major redevelopment and refurbishment to Aberdeen Art Gallery. Wishing to examine a subject important, in different ways, to both the visua...

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.

Scored for soprano solo, SATB choir and piano, Mimi's Song was first performed as part of the TV programme 'Mimi and the Mountain Dragon' premiered on Boxing Day 2019 on BBC Two

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.

This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cu...

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.