Commissioned by Nick Hewett
Beyond (2022)
12-15 minutes
for three or more trumpets and bell-plates
Chamber music - brass
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.)
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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
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
Uproar (2013)
12 mins
for 11 or more trombones and four or more bass drums
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
The Cloths of Heaven (2010)
7 mins
for 10 or more cornets
First performance by RNCM Cornet Ensemble directed by Richard Marshall, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK, 6 April 2011
Jouissance (1993)
3 minutes
for 2 trumpets and vibraphone
First performance by members of Australian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Tognetti, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney 10 July 1993