Composer, Writer & Broadcaster
Ford’s brass music includes sea shanties for quintet, and pieces for massed cornets and trombones. (See also Orchestral: Wind and brass for music for brass band.)
Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.
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
Commissioned for Ensemble Three by the University of Melbourne
First performance by Ensemble Three, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 10 July 2014
Commissioned by Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University
First performance by brass and percussion players of Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, directed by Ben Marks, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, 17 August 2013
First performance by RNCM Cornet Ensemble directed by Richard Marshall, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK, 6 April 2011
First performance by members of Australian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Tognetti, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney 10 July 1993