Events

Gondwana Choirs and Sydney Chamber Opera will present scenes from Andrew Ford and Sue Smith’s choral opera, Peter Pan, following two weeks of creative development at the 2020 National Choral School. The performance conducted by Jack Symonds and directed by Alexander Berlage features Jane Sheldon as both Mrs Darling and Captain Hook, with the roles […]

On October 9, Arcadia Winds will give the first performance of Scenes from Streeton, a new work commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Melbourne Recital Centre. The five-movement wind quintet also features the voices of Bruce Pascoe, Gwenda and Ian Langford, Eda Ritchie and Vivienne Ritchie, who talk about Arthur Streeton’s paintings of […]

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 […]

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 […]