An article in the Limelight magazine by Angus McPherson about Andrew Ford’s new work The Sea and The Mirror: In Andrew Ford’s program note for The Sea and the Mirror, which violinist Tor Frømyhr and cellist David Pereira will perform for the first time in Canberra on Friday, he dedicates the piece to Kim Williams, partly […]
Events
Nature – a new song cycle to premiere in Sweden & Australia
Andrew Ford’s new song cycle, Nature, will have its first performance in Söderhamn. Sweden on 5 September, swiftly followed by an Australian premiere in Sydney on 12 October and a further performance at Stockholm’s Riddarhuset (the House of Nobility) on 20 October. The work will also be featured at the is Arti Festival in Lithuania […]
‘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 […]