This blog has been set up to document a composition project by Cheryl Frances-Hoad. The idea, to write a piano concerto for pianist Bobby Chen and the Greystones Orchestra, based on the ideas and contributions of people of Co. Wicklow, Ireland, won the Music Commission from Wicklow County Council's Per Cent for Arts Scheme.
Cheryl Frances-Hoad graduated from Cambridge University (UK) with a triple 1st in 2001 and an Mphil (with Distinction) in Composition, also at Cambridge. She has just been awarded her PhD in Musical Composition from Kings College London, having studied with Silvina Milstein and George Benjamin. She began composing at the age of eight while studying ‘cello and piano at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and since then has won several prizes, including the Purcell Composition Prize, The Bach Choir Carol Competition, the BBC Young Composers Workshop 1996, the Cambridge Composer’s Competition, the Robert Helps Prize and the International String Orchestra Festival Prize. She has had two ballets choreographed by Lynn Seymour and Geoffrey Cauley; the second was performed by Scottish Ballet in the Britten Theatre, London. Her commissions include works for the BBC, the Surrey Philharmonic, the Manchester International ‘Cello Festival, the Chard Festival of Women in Music, the Bass Club, Bass Fest, the Almeida Festival, the Schubert Ensemble, the Fujita Piano trio, and the Kreisler Ensemble, and her music has been featured on BBC2, ITV, Radio 3 and Classic FM.
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