Cheryl Frances-Hoad

A short string trio commissioned by City of London Sinfonia in 2021.

Erbsenrondo ist ein fünfminütiges Streichquartett, das anlässlich des 25-jährigen Bestehens des Gregor-Mendel-Instituts in Wien geschrieben wurde, um Mendels Entdeckungen und die aktuelle Forschung in...

Sorores ('Schwestern' auf Lateinisch) ist ein 8-minütiges Werk für Vibraphon und Streicher. Es besteht aus vier zusammenhängenden Abschnitten, mit einer kurzen Kadenz für das Vibraphon im letzten Teil...

A short piece for solo trumpet written for Alan Thomas, commissioned to be performed outdoors during the world's recovery from COVID-19.

This five minute piece for trumpet and piano was commissioned by the trumpeter Brant Tilds and premiered by Brant and Cheryl Frances-Hoad at the Bear Club, Luton, 20th June 2017.

Written for the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, for Christmas 2021, with special thanks to Sir Andrew Wiles. This work was written by the composer with support from the 2021 Visiting Res...

Written during the UK Coronavirus lockdown for violin and piano, this little piece takes inspiration from the blossom on local fruit trees that I have watched developing and blooming in the past weeks...

The Sky Stretched Thin, a four-minute piece for baroque or modern violin, takes inspiration from a poem by Simon Armitage written during lockdown with the same title. The week that I read this newly p...

La vie sépare ceux qui s'aiment (...aber zum Glück in diesem Fall nicht für lange) ist ein kurzes 2-minütiges Werk für Klavier und Violine, das 2023 in Auftrag gegeben wurde.

A five-minute solo organ work commissioned by Simon Hogan. First performed on 15th July 2023 at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, by Simon Hogan.

Ein zehnminütiges Werk für Orgel. In Auftrag gegeben von B:Music zur Feier des vierzigjährigen Jubiläums von Thomas Trotter als Stadtorganist von Birmingham im Jahr 2023. Uraufführung in der Symphony...

Written for alto saxophone and piano, Algernon is loosely inspired by both Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and The Voices Within, a popular science book by Charles Fernyhough about the history an...

Two short pieces suitable for Grade 8 standard players.

A four-minute work for String Quartet written as a part of 'Elegy for Pamela' and recorded by the Wihan Quartet. Parts available: CH88060-01

A four-minute work for String Quartet written as a part of 'Elegy for Pamela' and recorded by the Wihan Quartet. Score available: CH88060

Für Akkordeon solo. 10 Minuten. Uraufführung am 23. Februar 2024 in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, UK durch Mingyuan Ruan.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Something More Than Mortal for Solo Soprano.

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...

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...

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...

Für gemischten Chor und Saxophon. Eine Vertonung von Nevill Coghills moderner englischer Version des Textes von Geoffrey Chaucer.