Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad is a versatile figure whose music has been widely performed in the U.K. and beyond. Her compositions have won prizes as far afield as Malta and China. As early as 1995, Frances-Hoad had written the choral song There Is No Rose, later recorded on the 2014 collection You Promised Me Everything, and in 2000, she wrote a work commemorating the 250th anniversary of Bach's death for the Cambridge Music Festival. The following year, Frances-Hoad's broken lines: sonata for opera was premiered with support from the R.V.W. Trust. Frances-Hoad's output, using traditional classical instrumentation, has been notably diverse: her 2005 song cycle The Glory Tree is sung entirely in Old English. Her vocal work Last Man Standing was premiered by the BBC Symphony at the Barbican in London in 2018. More than 40 of Frances-Hoad's compositions had been recorded as of the early 2020s.