The Carnival of the Insects will have two unusual performances at the Buxus Consort Festival in Gualtieri in September. Narrated by Silvio Castiligioni with the Ume Quartet and bassist, Stefano Bianchi, the live performances will be heard by festival goers wearing headphones as they walk through the lowland Caldaren Forest in the Po River floodplain. […]
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The Carnival of the Insects in Australia and the Netherlands
The Carnival of the Insects for string orchestra and narrator (with words by John Kinsella) has forthcoming performances in Australia and the Netherlands. Andrew Ford will narrate the piece for Steel City Strings in March in Wollongong and Berry, and Kamerorkest van het Noorden will present the piece in Groningen in a new Dutch translation […]
I Sing the Birth
In December 2024, I Sing the Birth had its first performances in Perth, Canberra and Antwerp by three of its four commissioners. Hugh Lydon’s Aquinas College Schola Cantorum gave the actual premiere with Aaron Powell (electric guitar) and two weeks later Luminescence Children’s Choir sang the piece under AJ America with Theo Carbo. A week […]
William Barton and the Brodsky Quartet play ‘Eden Ablaze’
Barton and the Brodskys play Andrew Ford’s seventh quartet Eden Ablaze
Katie Yap plays In My Solitude for solo viola
Violist Katie Yap plays Andrew Ford’s In My Solitude in a film by Darren James.
Lotte Betts-Dean sings ‘Gone’ from Red Dirt Hymns
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano) and Sean Shibe (guitar) performing ‘Gone’ from Red Dirt Hymns at the Royal Overseas League in London, November 2020.
How to commission a Red Dirt Hymn
Andrew Ford’s Red Dirt Hymns (‘The right idea for strange times’ – Harriet Cunningham, Limelight, March 2021) are a sequence of songs about hope and fear, courage, resilience, forbearance and forgiveness – in fact, the sorts of things hymns have always been about. They have new, specially commissioned lyrics by some of Australia’s finest poets […]
‘Gone’ sung and arranged by Gian Slater
Gian Slater has made this beautiful arrangement of ‘Gone’, the first of Andrew Ford’s Red Dirt Hymns. It has words by Jordie Albiston. Andrew Ford · 'Gone' from Red Dirt Hymns Andrew Ford · ‘Gone’ from Red Dirt Hymns
Ford on the txalaparta
Andrew Ford’s 1993 percussion piece, Composition in Blue, Grey and Pink, was written to be played on five matched drums of varying pitch (five bongos, say, of five congas), though over the years it’s been played on brake drums, muffled gongs and dinner plates (with knitting needles). Recently, Jabi Alonso adapted the piece to the […]
CD: There Was a Man Lived in the Moon
Andrew Ford’s popular CD of nursery rhymes and children’s songs, sung by Jane Sheldon and Teddy Tahu Rhodes is now available from this website. Please send Andrew a message at the contact page. CDs are $20 each including postage and packing in Australia. Try before you buy.