Workshops took place in Battersea Arts Centre in September 2003, and the final opera was staged throughout February 2004 at the Bridewell Theatre, followed by twelve performances around the country.
In June 2005, The Glory Tree, a song cycle for the Kreisler Ensemble (inspired by Shamanic rituals and sung entirely in Old English), was premiered in the South Bank's Fresh Series in the Purcell Room.
Two works received their premieres at the BBC Proms in 2017: Ein Feste Burg by organist William Whitehead, and From the Beginning of the World by vocal ensemble the Cardinall's Musick.
[4] In May 2023 Laura van der Heijden premiered her Cello Concerto in Glasgow with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.
In February 2006, after winning the $10,000 Robert Helps Prize with My fleeting Angel (for piano trio), Frances-Hoad became Composer-in-Residence at the University of South Florida for a week, where she gave a two-hour lecture about her work, and a masterclass for both undergraduate and postgraduate composition students.