Twelve of the best of the very many sacred songs I’ve composed. These are the best because they’ve been performed the most, or I like them best!
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November 2025: Lots Happening
Categories: Composery Life
November seems to be all about singing in and directing choirs in preparation for Christmas. A trip to London is planned too!
Twelve Of The Best: Gift Compositions
Categories: Composery Life, Twelve Of the Best: Choral Catalogues
Sometimes I compose something as a gift. Here are twelve of the best of them.
Short-Term Composing* Projects
Categories: Composery Life
Cheryl’s delivered lots of composing and other music workshops and projects over the years – some are just one-offs, some are in a series!
Hepworth Wakefield: Creative Practitioner
Categories: Composery Life
From before the Hepworth Wakefield opened in May 2011 until March 2020, I was part of the Learning Team delivering composing workshops to visitors.
A Song A Day, February 2025
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Composery Life
A song a day for a month, with Musical Characteristics, Performances, Related Songs and Other Information. I wrote or arranged them all.
January 2025: Extreme Re-Learning.
Categories: Composery Life
New Year and new things to get to grips with, which will require rapid and extreme re-learning as I go about my day-to-day composery business
Song Stories: Knit Me Together
Categories: Choiry Endeavours, Composery Life, Song Stories
A setting of parts of Psalm 139 selected by Richard Evans, who commissioned Cheryl to compose the piece in memory of his wife Carol, who died in 2024.
December 2024: Advent Calendar
Categories: Composery Life
Welcome to this year’s musicky Advent Calendar. Every day there’ll be a festive song and a teensy bit of context, and maybe other snippets of news from 2024 too.
November 2024: Commissions Three
Categories: Composery Life
I have three songs to write this month – all commissions! Ooh – proper composer, or what!? I’ve already started one. Hopefully by the end of November they’ll all be done and I can tell you about them a bit more…
