{"id":539,"date":"2010-12-23T03:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2011-01-21T05:40:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:40:24","slug":"portraits-of-a-composer-cheryl-frances-hoad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/portraits-of-a-composer-cheryl-frances-hoad","title":{"rendered":"Portraits of a composer: Cheryl Frances-Hoad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first took photos of Cheryl a few years back with soprano Natalie Raybould (<a title=\"Natalie Raybould Soprano\" href=\"http:\/\/www.natalieraybould.co.uk\">www.natalieraybould.co.uk<\/a>) when they formed Golden Hat Opera (<a title=\"GHO On Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GoldenHatOpera\">GHO on Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In the last few weeks it was announced that Cheryl won the prestigious British Composer Awards 2010 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishcomposerawards.com\/\">www.britishcomposerawards.com<\/a>)\u00a0in two categories, <em>Liturgical<\/em>, and <em>Instrumental Solo or Duo<\/em>, and I was delighted to meet her in Cambridge for a shoot for album artwork and to promote her new works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mat-smith-photography-blog-cheryl-frances-hoad-headshot-on-black-cambridge-composer-basca-award.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"540\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/portraits-of-a-composer-cheryl-frances-hoad\/mat-smith-photography-blog-cheryl-frances-hoad-headshot-on-black-cambridge-composer-basca-award#main\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mat-smith-photography-blog-cheryl-frances-hoad-cambridge-composer-headshot-on-black-closeup.jpg?resize=537%2C537&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cheryl Frances Hoad Cambridge Composer Headshot on Black Closeup\" width=\"537\" height=\"537\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mat-smith-photography-blog-cheryl-frances-hoad-headshot-on-black-cambridge-composer-basca-award.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mat-smith-photography-blog-ivy-green-copper-cheryl-frances-hoad-cambridge-composer.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"541\" 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data-image-title=\"mat-smith-photography-blog-ivy-green-copper-cheryl-frances-hoad-cambridge-composer\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Photograph of BASCA award winning composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad in Cambridge with ivy backdrop, December 2010.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mat-smith-photography-blog-ivy-green-copper-cheryl-frances-hoad-cambridge-composer.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mat-smith-photography-blog-ivy-green-copper-cheryl-frances-hoad-cambridge-composer.jpg?fit=537%2C358&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-541\" title=\"mat-smith-photography-blog-ivy-green-copper-cheryl-frances-hoad-cambridge-composer\" 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formed Golden Hat Opera (GHO on Twitter). In the last few weeks it was announced that Cheryl won the prestigious British Composer Awards 2010 (www.britishcomposerawards.com)\u00a0in two categories, Liturgical, and Instrumental Solo or Duo, and I was delighted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portrait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P4E5-8H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsmithphotography.com\/photolife-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}