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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.

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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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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String Quartet No 5 (2013)

15 minutes

Commissioned by the Australian String Quartet

First performance by the Australian String Quartet, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, 5 September 2013

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String Quartet No 4 (2012)

circa 10 minutes
for string quartet with prerecorded sounds

Commissioned by Julian Burnside QC for the NOISE

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String Quartet No 3 (2012)

18 minutes

1. Flowing 2. Cradle Song (to the memory of Richard Pollett) 3. Rant 4. Elegy

Commissioned by the Brodsky Quartet with with financial assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body

First performance by the Brodsky Quartet, Queensland Music Festival, Powerhouse, Brisbane, 18 July 2013

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Cradle Song (2012)

4 minutes
for string quartet

This piece is a version of Cradle Song for violin and piano. it is also the second movement of String Quartet No 3

First performance by the Shanghai Quartet, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Collins St Baptist Church, Melbourne, 21 October 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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Nine Fantasies about Brahms (2010)

16 minutes
for violin, cello, piano

Revised version 2013

  1. i. Grazioso

  2. ii. Subito animato

  3. iii. Maestoso

  1. iv. Dolce

  2. v. Adagio

  3. vi. Tranquillo e dolce

  4. vii. Allegro appassionato

  5. viii. Moderato

  6. xi. Più animato

Commissioned by TriOZ with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by TriOZ, Chevalier College, Bowral, NSW, 4 September 2010

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The Scattering of Light (2010)

16 minutes
for piano quartet

violin, viola, cello and piano

Commissioned by the University of Queensland to mark its centenary

First performance by Elizabeth Sellars, violin, Patricia Pollett, viola, Patrick Murphy, cello and Liam Viney, piano, Customs House, Brisbane, 10 December 2010

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