Friday, 22nd July 2022 — 7.30pm onwards // A piece by composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad is being performed at the Proms 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Music for Royal Occasions evening.
A piece by composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad is being performed at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, on Friday 22nd July 2022, as part of the Music for Royal Occasions calendar appointment.
The theme of this performance is classical music and the Royal Family. Tune in for a programme that includes Handel, Elgar, Britten, Vaughan Williams and more.
Notable residents
Cheryl’s grandmother, Christine Hoad and Cheryl’s mother Anne Hoad, lived in Stambourne.

Admired for her originality, fluency and professionalism, Cheryl Frances-Hoad has been composing to commission since she was fifteen.
Classical tradition (she trained as a cellist and pianist at the Menuhin School before going on to Cambridge and King’s College, London) along with diverse contemporary inspirations including literature, painting and dance, have contributed to a creative presence provocatively her own…
Read more: cherylfranceshoad.co.uk/about
Programme to include:
- Handel: Coronation Anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’; Water Music – excerpts
- Walton: Coronation March ‘Orb and Sceptre’
- Britten: Courtly Dances from ‘Gloriana’
- Parry: Coronation Anthem ‘I was glad’
- Judith Weir: I love all beauteous things
- Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music
- Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major
- and works by Byrd and Ireland, as well as a new commission by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Friday, 22nd July 2022 — 7.30pm onwards // A piece by composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad is being performed at the Proms 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Music for Royal Occasions calendar appointment.
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“Stambourne is probably as secluded a village as you can find within 50 miles of London” – Nicholas Enticknap
Welcome to the most comprehensive resource on Stambourne, a village in rural North Essex, UK.
Here you will find the live weather in Stambourne, our events calendar, ideas on what to do in the area, lots of information on the history of the village, what’s happening and almost 10 years of the Stambourne Newsletter, the village’s bi-monthly printed newsletter. There are also lots of photos of the village as it is now as well as in times gone by.
“Stambourne is probably as secluded a village as you can find within 50 miles of London” – Nicholas Enticknap
Welcome to the most comprehensive resource on Stambourne, a village in rural North Essex, UK.
Here you will find the live weather in Stambourne, our events calendar, ideas on what to do in the area, lots of information on the history of the village, what’s happening and almost 10 years of the Stambourne Newsletter, the village’s bi-monthly printed newsletter. There are also lots of photos of the village as it is now as well as in times gone by.




