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Chamber music

Ford’s chamber music includes six string quartets, and numerous works for mixed ensemble, some involving piano.

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

String Quartet No 7: Eden Ablaze (2020)

10 minutes
string quartet plus ad lib didgeridoo

Commissioned for the Brodsky Quartet by Julian Burnside AO QC.

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Scenes from Streeton (2019)

26 minutes
for wind quintet and recorded voices

1. Golden Summer 2. Near Heidelberg 3. The Selector's Hut (Whelan on the Log) 4. The Spirit of the Drought 5. After Streeton

Text: interviews with Eda Ritchie, Bruce Pascoe, Vivienne Ritchie, Ian Langford and Gwenda Langford. Editing and sound engineering by Russell Stapleton.

Commissioned in celebration of the Melbourne Recital Centre's 10th anniversary.

First performance by Arcadia Winds, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne, 9 October 2019.

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Polly’s Dance (2019)

3 minutes
cor anglais, French horn and cello

Commissioned by Sandy Rendel in celebration of his sister Polly Woods's 75th birthday.

First performance by Dinah Woods (cor anglais), Jules Evans (horn), Helen Mountfort (cello), Midland Hotel, Castlemaine, Victoria, 20 July 2019

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Blood Red Roses: three shanties and a sea song (2017)

10 mins
for 2 trumpets, French horn, trombone and tuba

1. Go Down, You Blood Red Roses
2. Sally Brown
3. Lowlands
4. Spanish Ladies

Commissioned by Sydney Brass

First performance by Sydney Brass, Bondi Junction RSL, Sydney, 1 July 2018

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Never (2016)

11 mins
For clarinet/bass clarinet. violin and piano

1. Night Flight -- 2. Fanfares -- 3. Lullaby for Lost Children.

Commissioned by Plexus

First performance by Plexus, Melbourne Recital Hall, Melbourne, 29 May 2017

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Contradance (2015)

13 minutes
for 11 players

1(=picc)-1-1(=bass cl)-1(=contrabsn) / 1-0-0-0 / pno / 1-1-1-1-1

Commissioned by Steven Alward for the Omega Ensemble to celebrate the 60th birthday of Mark Wakely

First performance by the Omega Ensemble, City Recital Hall, Sydney, 20 April 2016

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String Quartet No 6 (2014-17)

25 minutes

1. Preludio —
2. Scherzo perpetuo
3. Lamentoso —
4. Sunrise with Wedding Dresses
5. Finale
Movements 2 and 4 may be performed separately.

Commissioned by the Flinders Quartet with support from David and Kaye Birks, Julian Burnside AO QC and Ben Quilty

First performance by the Flinders Quartet, Ballarat, Victoria, 28 October 2018

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Slow Air (2014)

8 mins
for trumpet, trombone and guitar

Commissioned for Ensemble Three by the University of Melbourne

First performance by Ensemble Three, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 10 July 2014

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After the Visitors (2014)

3 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and string quartet

Text: poem by Judith Wright

Commissioned by Katie Noonan with financial assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Katie Noonan and the Brodsky Quartet, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, 28 April 2016

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Common Ground (2014)

15 minutes
for two string quartets

Commissioned by Barbara Blackman for the Canberra International Music Festival.

first performance by the New Zealand String Quartet and Tinalley String Quartet, Canberra International Music Festival, Fitters Workshop, Canberra, 9 May 2015

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