Cheryl Hoard

Gateway Brass Quintet

Cheryl Hoard, Horn

Our newest member, Cheryl Hoard has appeared extensively with the St. Louis Symphony since 1992. Prior to that she was Principal Horn with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for 11 years.

During that time she was a frequent soloist with the orchestra, taught horn at the HK Academy of Performing Arts, Hong Kong University, Chinese University & HK Baptist College, was an active performer of chamber music and solo recitals and recorded extensively with the orchestra, for movies, TV, and popular Chinese artists.

She has been a member of the Board of Directors of The Metro Winds woodwind quintet and treasurer for the International Women’s Brass Conference. She was formerly Assistant Principal Horn with the San Jose Symphony, and has performed with the Amsterdam Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet Orchestras, the National Opera and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra and Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band. In 1978 she was second prize winner of the Heldenleben International Horn Competition and in 1979 she was the winner of the Diablo Symphony Concerto Competition.

Since 1991 she has been owner (with her husband Jeff) of Cheryl’s Herbs of St. Louis, an international wholesale/retail/mail order supplier of highest quality herbs, essential oils and herbal & aromatherapy products. She has an active speaking schedule, has written numerous articles appearing in various national magazines and newspapers and has appeared extensively on radio and TV. In April 1997 she and her husband were the subject of a full page biographical story in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Cheryl has been the aromatherapy consultant for Time Life Books and assisted in the preparation of their publication entitled "The Drug and Natural Medicine Advisor". She also has served as a member of the Botanicals Workgroup of the Complementary Health Committee for the BJC Health System and lectures for St. Louis University Medical School, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis Community College, Meramec and Missouri Botanical Gardens. A student of Jeanne Rose, with a diploma from Barbara von Grote Aromatherapy Hong Kong, she has studied herbalism and aromatherapy since 1976. Cheryl continues to research and study these topics as well as use the herbs and essential oils in her daily life.