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

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

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Love Song For Dusty for solo Piano. Duration: 4 minutes

Blurry Bagatelle was commissioned to celebrate 35 years of the Presteigne Festival, with funds from the Foyle Foundation.

Für Solo-Sopran, SATB-Chor und Streichorchester. Geschrieben im Jahr 2024. Dauer: ca. 19 Minuten. With What Sudden Joy wurde vom Southwell Music Festival zur Feier seines zehnjährigen Bestehens im Jah...

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.

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...