Events

Hildegard of Bingen, Trota of Salerno, Anna of Rome, the Wife of Bath, Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich: the words of these women of the Middle Ages are the starting point for Andrew Ford’s piece for women’s voices, bells and gongs, Six Medieval Women. It will have its first performance by actor Jaz Hoskins […]

The Brodsky Quartet and didgeridoo maestro William Barton will perform Ford’s String Quartet No 7: Eden Ablaze on tour in Australia, Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom in February and April 2026. Starting in Melbourne and ending in Bristol, the tour includes performances at the Adelaide Festival, for Dornbirn Klassik and at London’s 12th-century Temple […]

Throughout November 2025, Luminescence Chamber Singers will be on the road in rural New South Wales with their award-winning Red Dirt Hymns show. In Orange, Penrith, Bowral, Queanbeyan and Bermagui, they will work with local choirs to sing about hope, determination and the land beneath our feet. They are joined for these concerts by Freya […]

On 28 July at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, the Australian String Quartet and William Mabo will give the premiere of Andrew Ford’s Machnamh, a ‘rumination’ on Seán Ó Riada’s famous tune ‘Mná na hÉireann’ (‘Women of Ireland’). It was commissioned by Ford’s neighbour, Owen J. Conlan, in memory of his mother […]

Two new pieces will be unveiled in the coming months. Ken Murray will give the first performance of Deep Riffs for electric guitar and loops at Tempo Rubatoin Melbourne on 20 March, and flautist Lina Andonovska will play Sad Stepsfor the first time on 2 April at Kaleidoscope Night in Dublin’s Bello Bar. Deep Riffs, […]

I Sing the Birth, Andrew Ford’s new sequence of Christmas music for treble voices and electric guitar, is a four-way commission from Luminesence Children’s Choir (Canberra), Aquinas College Schola Cantorum (Perth), the Flanders Boys Choir (Antwerp) and the Estonian TV Girls’ Choir (Tallinn). The first three performances will take place in December 2024, beginning in […]

Luminscence Chamber Singers onstage at the Canberra International Music Festival On 2 May, during the 2024 Canberra International Music Festival, Luminescence Chamber Singers performed an evening of Red Dirt Hymns to a capacity audience in the National Museum of Australia. Sixteen out of a total of twenty ‘hymns’ were performed by the six voices together […]

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 […]