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Cheryl Frances-Hoad (born 1980) is a British composer.

Early life

Frances-Hoad began composing at the age of eight while studying cello and piano at the

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. She graduated from

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(

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) with a Double 1st in 2001 and an MPhil (with Distinction) in Composition, also at Cambridge.

Composer

She has had two ballets choreographed by

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and Geoffrey Cauley; the second was performed by

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in the Britten Theatre, London. Her commissions include works for the

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, the Surrey Philharmonic, the Manchester International Cello Festival, the Chard Festival of Women in Music, the Bass Club, Bass Fest and the Almeida Festival. In 2000 the Cambridge Music Festival commissioned a work to commemorate the 250th anniversary of

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's death, which was performed by the

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Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Nicholas Daniel. In November 2001 Frances-Hoad had her first chamber opera, ''broken lines: sonata for opera'', premiered by the New Cambridge Opera Group, as part of the Britten@25 Festival, with generous funding from the R.V.W. Trust. June 2002 saw two premieres: the

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commission (a work for Nicholas Daniel and the Schubert Ensemble, with funding from the Foyle Foundation), and a piano trio for the London Mozart Trio at the

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. October 2002 saw another premiere at the Wigmore Hall, with a solo cello work for Thomas Carroll and Y.C.A.T, and a commission from the

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. Frances-Hoad was one of six featured composers in Tête à Tête's opera project ''Family Matters'' (based on Beaumarchais' third Figaro play '' The Guilty Mother'') with a libretto by Olivier-Award winner

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. Workshops took place in Battersea Arts Centre in September 2003, and the final opera was staged throughout February 2004 at the

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, followed by twelve performances around the country. (The RVW Trust also assisted this venture.) In June 2005, '' The Glory Tree'', a song cycle for the Kreisler Ensemble (inspired by Shamanic rituals and sung entirely in Old English), was premiered in the South Bank's Fresh Series in the

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. Her 2012 opera ''Amy's Last Dive'' was composed whie she was resident DARE Fellow in Opera Related Arts at

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and

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. ''Quark Dances'' was toured in the UK by

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in 2014. Two works received their premieres at the

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in 2017: ''Ein Feste Burg'' by organist William Whitehead, and ''From the Beginning of the World'' by vocal ensemble the Cardinall's Musick. ''Last Man Standing'' a 30-minute work for baritone and orchestra with libretto by Tamsin Collison, was premiered in 2018 by Marcus Farnsworth and the

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, conducted by

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. ''Scenes from the Wild'', a 70 minute song cycle for tenor and chamber orchestra, was performed by the City of London Sinfonia and the BBC Singers in 2022. Also that year ''Your servant, Elizabeth'', a short piece for chorus and orchestra, received its premiere at the BBC Proms on 22 July. In May 2023 Laura van der Heijden premiered her Cello Concerto in Glasgow with the

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conducted by

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.

Prizes and Scholarships

Frances-Hoad has won several prizes, including the Purcell Composition Prize, the

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Carol Competition, the BBC Young Composers Workshop 1996, the Cambridge Composer's Competition, the

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Composition Competition and the

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Prize. She received the

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in 2002, the Bliss Prize in 2002, and was joint winner of the Harriet Cohen Award in 2002. She has also received awards from Cambridge University, the Newby Trust, the Earls Colne Educational trust and the Sidney Perry Foundation. In February 2006, after winning the $10,000 Robert Helps Prize with ''My fleeting Angel'' (for piano trio), Frances-Hoad became Composer-in-Residence at the

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for a week, where she gave a two-hour lecture about her work, and a masterclass for both undergraduate and postgraduate composition students. After winning the Cheltenham Festival Commission in the

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Composition Prize, Frances-Hoad's ''My Day in Hell'' was premiered by the Dante Quartet at the Cheltenham Festival.

Albums

*''The Glory Tree: Chamber Works'', Champs Hill Records (2011). Eight pieces (1999-2008): 'Memoria', 'My Fleeting Angel', 'The Snowwoman', 'The Ogre Lover', 'Invocation', 'Bouleumata', 'Melancholia', 'The Glory Tree'. * ''You Promised Me Everything'', Champs Hill Records (2014). Vocal works: 'One Life Stand', 'There is no Rose', 'Don't', 'Psalm No. 1', 'You Promised Me Everything', 'Last Night', 'Nunc Dimittis', 'Beowulf'. * ''Stolen Rhythm'', Champs Hill Records (2017). Orchestral and chamber works: 'Katharsis' for cello and piano, 'The Forgiveness Machine'for piano trio, 'Quark Dances' for large ensemble, 'Homages' (Book 1 & Book 2, for piano), 'A Refusal to Mourn' for oboe and string orchestra.Reviewed at ''MusicWeb International''
/ref> * ''Even You Song'', First Hand Records (2017). An Evenson-inspired work for choir and organ. * ''Magic Lantern Tales'', Champs Hill Records (2018), songs * ''The Whole Earth Dances'', Champs Hill Records (2020). Nine chamber works (1998-2018): 'The Whole Earth Dances', 'Cloud Movements', 'Songs and Dances', 'The Prophecy', 'Game On', 'Pay Close Attention', 'Mazurka', 'Medea', 'My Day in Hell'.

References

External links

Official website
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