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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.

Estampie (1999)

2 minutes
for clarinet, darabouka, harp and sting quartet

Arrangement of 13th-century English estampie

First performance by Kowmung Music Festival Ensemble, Kowmung Music Festival, Abercrombie Caves, NSW, 27 March 1999

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Icarus drowning (1998)

18 mins
for chamber ensemble

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

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Tattoo (1998)

20 mins
for 12 timpani (6 players) and 4 pianos

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

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Epithalamium (1998)

5 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and srtring quartet

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

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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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Palindrome: Jesus Meets St Veronica (1993)

4 minutes
for clarinet, percussion and double bass

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

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Pastoral (1991)

12 minutes
for string octet

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

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Alchemy (1991)

11 minutes
for percussion quartet

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

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Ringing the Changes (1990)

10 minutes
for piccolo, bass clarinet and piano

Commissioned by Het Trio with funds from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Het Trio, De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 1990

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Chamber Concerto No 3: In Constant Flight (1988)

15 mins
for solo violin, flute (=picc, alto fl), clarinet (=bass cl), percussion (1 player), piano and cello

Solo part is virtually identical to Like Icarus Ascending

Commissioned by Terra Australis incognita with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Robert Davidovici and Terra Australis incognita conducted by Matthias Kriesberg, Houston International Festival, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, 10 April 1988

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