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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · 3d

ALL my themes are fitting together in my final climactic build up. who needs drugs and alcohol when composing can be so much fun? 😆

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · 29d

It's wonderful to be back in Ernen again, for three performances of my work over two days, during the 'Newcomers' part of Festival Musikdorf Ernen. Going to be very hard to leave this place in a few days for the final time!
www.musikdorf.ch/en/chamber-m...

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Aug 13

@rsno.bsky.social officially my favourite orchestra in the world after telling me that can't tell the age difference between a publicity photo taken 18 years ago and one taken last year. 😂 I'll take that fib any day! :)

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Aug 10

Super happy that my Toccata, commissioned by Simon Hogan, features in this Choral Evensong! Huge thanks to Tom Winpenny for this fab performance.

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BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Royal Holloway, University of London

From the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London, with the Rodolfus Choral Course.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Aug 5

Really delighted to feature on this fab new disc from @schellhornmusic.bsky.social and @firsthandrecords.bsky.social !

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Matthew Schellhorn official album trailer | Odd Sympathies (First Hand Records)

YouTube video by Matthew Schellhorn

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Aug 5

It's so wonderful to be back in Ernen for Festival Musikdorf Ernen! Hugely grateful that so many of my works are being performed here - the earliest a cello piece I wrote in 1997 (!) and the latest, a new string quartet that I only finished this February. Feeling exceptionally lucky to be here.

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you for this! :)

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Fr Alex Frost @alexdjfrost.bsky.social · Jul 18

Such a pleasure to interview @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social for The God Cast today and talk about music and the art of creating something new.
Full chat here youtu.be/hf8gQpE8U4s?...

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Jari Kallio @jarikallio.bsky.social · Jun 23

Sequenzas, tributes and memorials with Ensemble Renard at Aldeburgh Festival

Splendid centennial tributes to Berio and Boulez, feat. @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social world premiere, Esa-Pekka Salonen 📯 étude & quintet rarity, plus solos by Britten, Maxwell Davies & Colin Matthews
#adventuresinmusic

Sequenzas, tributes and memorials with Ensemble Renard at the Aldeburgh Festival

Ensemble Renard performing at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh. © Britten Pears Making their inspirational Aldeburgh Festival appearances on Friday and Saturday mornings, the five marvelous musicians of…

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Jun 2

Oh this sounds my cup of dribbly tea! I’ve just ordered a copy! Due to have a reading (and film watching!) session as soon as this piece is finished (deadline tomorrow!) 😀

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · May 30

Hugely grateful to Simon Hogan for his fabulous recording of my Toccata on this newly released disc from @conviviumrecords.bsky.social !

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · May 22

Very happy that my solo cello suite, premiered by the wonderful Natalie Clein last year at the @wigmore-hall.org.uk is now available to purchase! @wisemusiccreative.bsky.social

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · May 19

Hugely grateful to
Oriel College Choir, Oxford and Director of Music Dr. David Maw for the premiere of my anthem ‘O Maria, Virgo Pia’ yesterday!

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Dr Kate Kennedy @drkkennedy.bsky.social · May 15

Join me and Cara Berridge in #Kent this Sunday 🎻 at the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival, 18 May at 11am! A morning of #Bach and @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social, with tales from my #Cello book woven together 🌿✨ Under 25s go free!

🎟️ Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/sacconi-fest...

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · May 14

Hugely pleased with these reviews of my piece for @stileantico.co.uk at the @wigmore-hall.org.uk! So grateful for such a fabulous performance! 🙂 (The Times, MusicOMH, The Arts Desk)

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · May 12

Congratulations to @stileantico.co.uk for their fantastic 20th anniversary gala at the @wigmore-hall.org.uk this evening. I was very lucky to have my recent piece for them performed during the three part concert. Fantastic piece by Huw Watkins too!

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · May 11

An amazing day exploring Guernsey. Much inspiration to be found here for my residency in the Channel Islands!

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · May 5

I had a wonderful time at the Austrian Academy of Sciences tonight, for the 25th Annivery celebrations of the Gregor Mendel Institute. My ‘Erbensrondo’ (or Rondo of the peas) was inspired by Mendel’s work, but also by cutting edge research into duckweed and chlamydomonas (a sort of green mould). 🫛😄

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · Mar 23

I’ve been here this week, except it was basically ‘we’ve got a really tight budget’, ‘ok what is it then?’….tumbleweed

Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · Mar 23

Need to print this out and frame it near my desk

A meme of two cowboys in a standoff. One says "what's your budget?" and the other one says "what's your rate?"

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Mar 19

I decided to have a glass of wine and some very buttery toast right now instead of starting my new piece. But just had a killer idea whilst doing the above. Ha! Sometimes it’s great to be a composer.

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Mar 18

t was fab to be back at @kebleoxford yesterday (where I was Visiting Fellow a couple of years ago) to hear @orieloxford (where I’m now Musician in Residence) record my new anthem ‘O Maria, Virgo Pia’. The piece was written for the 40th Anniversary of the admittance of women at Oriel. Thanks to all!

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Mar 13

Well I didn’t manage to wash my face today, but who cares ‘cos I just finished my string quartet!!!!!

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Feb 22

The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it

Three marble statues all holding their hands up to their faces

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Feb 23

Anyone have a spare ticket they can’t use for Festen on Monday or Thursday? Was meant to go tonight but a fatality on the train tracks near me meant all trains were cancelled. Don’t really feel I can stretch to a box (£480) all to myself, which is all that’s left..!

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social · Feb 22

Stuck in train chaos 🤯😩

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