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Home / Compositions / Chamber music / Chamber music - brass

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.)

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

Beyond (2022)

12-15 minutes
for three or more trumpets and bell-plates

Commissioned by Nick Hewett

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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