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| Composer of the Month June 2023: Cheryl Frances-Hoad | |
 Cheryl Frances-Hoad was born in Essex, United Kingdom in 1980 and received her musical education at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the University of Cambridge (BA in Music) and Kings College London (PhD, Composition). Her works have garnered many awards, including the BBC Lloyds Bank Composer of the Year Award, the Mendelssohn Scholarship, The Bliss Prize, The Cambridge Composers Competition Prize, The Robert Helps International Composition Prize (USA), The Sun River Prize (China), The International String Orchestra Composition Prize (Malta), The RPS Composition Prize, and three Ivor Novello (formally BASCA) British Composer Awards. Cheryl was composer-in-residence at Presteigne Festival 2019 and was Associate Composer at Oxford Lieder Festival from 2019-2021. Her song cycle, 'everything grows extravagantly', was chosen as one of the five best classical events of 2021 by The Times. November 2021 brought the premiere of 'Scenes from the Wild', a 70-minute cycle for tenor and chamber orchestra, commissioned to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of City of London Sinfonia. In May 2023 Laura van der Heijden premiered Cheryl's new cello concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. The music of Cheryl Frances-Hoad is published by Chester Music Limited and Cadenza Music.
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Listen to 'The Forgiveness Machine' Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello |
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