Cheryl wins a PRS "Women Make Music" award to write a Brass Quintet for Onyx Brass

Cheryl will be writing us a brass quintet called 'The Madness Industry' – a multi-movement piece investigating the theme of psychopathology in everyday society. In 2008, Cheryl became Artist in Residence at the Cambridge University Psychiatry Department, an experience which has given her great insight into aspects of the human mind and has influenced a number of her recent compositions.

The Glory Tree is picked as BBC Music Magazine's October"Chamber Music Choice"

Cheryl is absolutely delighted that her debut CD has been chosen as "Chamber Music Choice" in the October edition of BBC Music Magazine.The CD has been awarded 5 stars both for its performance and recording quality which is the highest star rating possible! Barry Witherden writes that Cheryl's music is "full of feeling and memorable gestures", adding that "her compositions command attention through their well-constructed musical development and the emotional intensity of their sound-worlds". Read more here.

Stunning reviews of The Glory Tree in The Guardian, The Times and Musical Pointers

Cheryl's debut CD has received a 4 star review in The Guardian. Andrew Clements writes "There's something engagingly freewheeling about Frances-Hoad's works, the feeling that she is quite unselfconscious about the music she writes and oblivious to how others might categorise it."

 

Paul Driver in The Times writes "Frances-Hoad is a remarkable talent. This retrospective of her chamber works is like a declaration of faith in the eternal verities of composition". Read the full Guardian review here, and also see the Musical Pointers review here. Click here to buy the CD

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