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Home / Compositions / Chamber music

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.

“. . . in Paradiso” (2009)

6 minutes
for 9 or more flutes (minimum 3 flutes with digital delay)

Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music for the Melbourne International Arts Festival

First performance by Taryn Richards, Dominique Chaseling and Agatha Yip, St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, 14 October 2009

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Sculthorpe Dreaming (2009)

2 minutes
for string quartet

Commissioned by Arts in the Valley to mark Peter Sculthorpe's 80th birthday

First performance by the Goldner Quartet, Kangaroo Valley Golf and Country Resort, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, 3 May 2009

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Chorales from an Ox Life (2007-09)

9 minutes
for viola, cello and double bass

A version of Chorales from an Ox Life for viola and double bass

First performance by Christa Jardine (viola), Richard Vaudrey (cello) and Douglas Rutherford (bass), Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne, 23 April 2009

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A Reel, a Fling and a Ghostly Galliard (String Quartet No 2) (2006)

8 minutes

Commissioned by the Grainger Quartet for its inaugural series of concerts in October 2006. The commission was generously funded by Pamela Pearce and Wally Patterson.

First performance by the Grainger Quartet, Vebrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 2005

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Oma kodu (2006)

9 minutes
for clarinet in A and string quartet

Commissioned by Colin Gray and Jenny Kena

First performed by Catherine McCorkill (clarinet), Australia Ensemble, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales, Sydney 19 May 2007

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Sad Jigs (2005)

7 minutes
for string quintet

2 violins, viola, cello and double bass.

This piece may also be played by a string orchestra.

Commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra through Symphony Australia with funds from the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Fellows of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium, 5 July 2005

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After the Ball Was Over (2003)

6 minutes
for percussion quartet

Five waltzes from The Waltz Book arranged for tuned percussion

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Tales of the Supernatural (2002)

31 mins
folksongs for voice and string quartet

1. Niin mina neitonen -- 2. The great silkie of Sules Skerry -- 3. Den fortrollade barnafoderskan -- 4. The Bay of Biscay -- 5. The house carpenter -- 6. The unquiet grave -- 7. Niin minä neitonen.

Commissioned by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust

First performance by Jane Edwards and the Australian String Quartet, Elder Hall, University of Adelaide, 5 March 2004

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Chamber Concerto No 4 (2002)

13 minutes
for flute (= piccolo), clarinet (=bass clarinet), piano and string quartet

1. Chacony
2. Salsa

Commissioned by the University of New South Wales for the Australia Ensemble

First performance by the Australia Ensemble, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 October 2003

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Hymn to the Sun (1999)

2 minutes
for clarinet, celesta and harp

After Mesomedes of Crete (c. 140 CE)

First performance by Peter Jenkin (clarinet), Daryl Pratt (celesta) and Alice Giles (harp), Kowmung Music Festival, Abercrombie Caves, NSW 27 March 1999

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