Jack the Diamond's Jamming Station

Byzantium

Rigaudon

Arise My Love

Dark Inventions

String Quartet No.1

Strix

The World's Turning

Striking Out

Sonatas for Piano

The Season of Singing

When He Is King

Black Venus

Yankele is a folksong-like Yiddish song by the Polish-Jewish songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig who was killed in the Kraków ghetto during the Second World War in 1942. Written for the University of Birmingham’s CrossCurrents Festival as part of CrossCurrents a new set of eleven specially commissioned folk-inspired songs. First performance: Lucy Schaufer Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Richard Baker Elgar Concert Hall University of Birmingham 20th February 2016Yankele is a folksong-like Yiddish song by the Polish-Jewish songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig who was killed in the Kraków ghetto during the Second World War in 1942. Written for the University of Birmingham’s CrossCurrents Festival as part of CrossCurrents a new set of eleven specially commissioned folk-inspired songs. First performance: Lucy Schaufer Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Richard Baker Elgar Concert Hall University of Birmingham 20th February 2016.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Amy's Last Drive for Soloists Womens Choir and Orchestra. Duration: 2 hours

Cheryl Frances-Hoad 's The Whole Earth Dances for Piano Quintet (Piano Violin Viola Cello and Double Bass). The Whole Earth Dances was commissioned by The Schubert Ensemble with funds gratefully received from The Schubert Ensemble Trust Spitalfields Festival New Music Commission Fund and The Steel Charitable Trust and was premiered at Spitalfields Music Festival on Monday 13th June 2016. The Whole Earth Dances is dedicated to the memory of the composer's friend talented Stage designer and Visual artist Becs Andrews who passed away in 2016. Cheryl Frances-Hoad 's The Whole Earth Dances for Piano Quintet (Piano Violin Viola Cello and Double Bass). The Whole Earth Dances was commissioned by The Schubert Ensemble with funds gratefully received from The Schubert Ensemble Trust Spitalfields Festival New Music Commission Fund and The Steel Charitable Trust and was premiered at Spitalfields Music Festival on Monday 13th June 2016. The Whole Earth Dances is dedicated to the memory of the composer's friend talented Stage designer and Visual artist Becs Andrews who passed away in 2016.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad 's The Dreams That Fly from Me for solo String Quartet and String Orchestra. Score. The Dreams That Fly From Me is a ten minute work for solo string quartet and string orchestra. It is in two movements (one slow one fast) that are played without a break. I spent ten years at the Yehudi Menuhin School (a specialist music school for string and piano) growing up so this piece cannot help but be strongly influenced by the music I played in the school orchestra during this time. In particular the work is influenced by Elgar's Introduction and Allegro Strauss's Metamorphosen (for twenty-three solo strings) and Tippett's Concerto for DoubleString Orchestra although the harmonic language of the piece (which is essentially very jazzy) helps to obscure these musical references. In terms of extra musical inspiration the work was inspired by a poem by Ivan Goll called Bloodhound which includes the lines Catch the dreams that fly off from me.... And savage the ankles of my fleeting angel I was inspired by the idea of a fleeting angel which at a time when I had been having difficulties composing seemed very poignant: the angel of the poem seemed to be a poetic representation of my inspiration. The Dreams That Fly From Me was premiered by the Szymanowsky Quartet and the Northern Sinfonia (Bradley Creswick director) at Hovingham Hall on the 28th July 2013 as part of the 2013 Ryedale Festival. - Cheryl Frances-Hoad Cheryl Frances-Hoad 's The Dreams That Fly from Me for solo String Quartet and String Orchestra. Score. 'The Dreams That Fly From Me is a ten minute work for solo string quartet and string orchestra. It is in two movements (one slow one fast) that are played without a break. I spent ten years at the Yehudi Menuhin School (a specialist music school for string and piano) growing up so this piece cannot help but be strongly influenced by the music I played in the school orchestra during this time. In particular the work is influenced by Elgar's Introduction and Allegro Strauss's Metamorphosen (fortwenty-three solo strings) and Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra although the harmonic language of the piece (which is essentially very jazzy) helps to obscure these musical references. In terms of extra musical inspiration the work was inspired by a poem by Ivan Goll called Bloodhound which includes the lines Catch the dreams that fly off from me.... And savage the ankles of my fleeting angel I was inspired by the idea of a fleeting angel which at a time when I had been having difficulties composing seemed very poignant: the angel of the poem seemed to be a poetic representation of my inspiration. The Dreams That Fly From Me was premiered by the Szymanowsky Quartet and the

Colin Matthews' Waltz for Piano Trio. As well as many large-scale orchestral works and much chamber music Colin Matthews has written a number of works for children to play most notably Machines And Dreams a 'toy symphony' for young players and the London Symphony Orchestra (1990). The March Waltz and Nocturne were composed specifically for the Schubert Ensemble’s Chamber Music 2000 project in 1999. - Colin Matthews

Gordon Crosse's Orkney Dreaming for Violin. Composed 2014.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad 's Even You Song for SATB Childrens Choir and Organ.