Andrew Ford’s new song cycle, Nature, will have its first performance in Stockholm in September, swiftly followed by an Australian premiere in Sydney the following month. Scored for mezzo-soprano, flute, percussion, guitar and cello, it sets words about the natural world and our place in it by Jen Hadfield (Shetland), R.S. Thomas (Wales), Robert Adamson […]
Events
‘Christmas List’ for St George’s Cathedral, Perth
The Christmas music I love best tends to be rather dark and wintry. Almost as if they were afraid of this, St George’s Cathedral, Perth, commissioned me to compose a carol/anthem that would be ‘joyful’. I asked the poet David McCooey for some words about the anticipation of Christmas in blazing summer heat and he […]
Premiere: String Quartet no. 6
Andrew Ford’s sixth string quartet will receive its first performance this month and next from the Flinders Quartet, for whom it was written. A five-movement work lasting 25 minutes, it was commissioned for the Flinders by David and Kaye Birks and Julian Burnside AO QC. The two even-numbered movements preceded the others, ‘Scherzo perpetuo’ (2014) composed for […]