Composer, Writer & Broadcaster
Ford’s chamber music includes six string quartets, and numerous works for mixed ensemble, some involving piano.
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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
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
Arrangement of 13th-century English estampie
First performance by Kowmung Music Festival Ensemble, Kowmung Music Festival, Abercrombie Caves, NSW, 27 March 1999
First performance by Sprung Percussion, Stephanie McCallum, Robert Curry, James Rydge and Tamara Anna Cislowska, conducted by Daryl Pratt; Sydney Spring International Festival, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, 29 August 1998
An elaboration, more than an arrangement, of Epithalamium for tenor and violin (with bell). See also Epithalamium for tenor, flute and cello.
Text:
William Shakespeare, Act IV of The Tempest
First performance by Jenny Duck-Chong and Halcyon, 6 October 2007, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney
clarinet (also bass clarinet), percussion (also celesta), off-stage percussion (2 players), harp and string quartet
Commissioned by the Kowmung Music Festival
First performance by Kowmung Music Festival Ensemble conducted by the composer, Abercrombie Caves, NSW, March 1999
Commissioned by the Song Company
First performance by Peter Jenkin (clarinet), David Montgomery (percussion), Kees Boersma, Via Crucis Australis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 9 April 1993
First performance by members of Australian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Tognetti, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney 10 July 1993
3 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and double bass
Commissioned by the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players with funds from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council
First performance by the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, St Helens, Tasmania, September 1991
Commissioned by Synergy Percussion with funds from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council
First performance by Synergy Percussion, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, 3 May 1992