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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.

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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On Canaan’s Happier Shore (1987)

12 minutes
for ensemble

clarinet (= bass clarinet), percussion (1 player), mandolin, guitar, violin, viola, cello

Commissioned by Elision Ensemble with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Elision Ensemble conducted by Robert Smallwood, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 28 April 1987

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String Quartet No 1 (1985)

11 minutes

Commissioned by the Petra Quartet with funds from the Australia Council

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Four Winds (1984)

12 minutes
for saxophone quartet

Revised 1999

Commissioned by Rijnmond Saxofoon Kwartet

First performance by Rijnmond Saxofoon Kwartet, Delft, Netherlands, 28 September 1985

First performance of revised version by Continuum Sax, Four Winds Festival, Bermagui, NSW, April 1996

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Chamber Concerto No 2: Cries in summer (1983)

8 minutes
for flute (= piccolo), clarinet (= bass clarinet), violin, viola and cello

Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, for MusICA 1983

First performed by the Australia Ensemble conducted by the composer, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 October 1984

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Bright Ringing Morning (1981)

12 minutes
for 11 players

2 flutes (+ piccolo), bass clarinet, trombone, percussion (3 players), 2 cellos, 2 double basses

First performance by Lontano conducted by Odaline de la Martinez, BBC Radio 3, UK, 29 March 1984

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Chamber Concerto No 1 (1979)

16 mins
for flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet in B flat, violin (doubling viola), cello, piano

Commissioned by Yorkshire Arts Association with funds provided by Arts Council of Great Britain.

First performance by the Aulos Ensemble conducted by the composer, the Theatre in the Mill, University of Bradford, UK, 7 June 1980

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Sonata for four instruments (1978)

9 minutes
for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano

First performance by the Park Lane Music Players conducted by Edwin Roxburgh, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK, October 1979

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