First performance by Simon Docking (piano), The Music Room, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 12 April 2023
Merrily Kiss the Quaker’s Wife (2021)
3 minutes
for solo piano
Instrumental - piano
Ford’s piano music includes award-winning collection The Waltz Book, sixty minute waltzes that may be performed separately, complete or in any combination.
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The Star of the County Down (2020)
3 minutes
for solo piano
On Reflection (2012-13)
10 minutes
for two pianos
Commissioned for the Viney-Grinberg Duo by the University of Queensland
First performance by Viney-Grinberg Duo (Liam Viney and Anna Grinberg), ABC Studio 420, Brisbane, 21 September 2014
Thin Air (2007)
5 minutes
for solo piano
Commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia with funds provided by the Music Teachers' Association of NSW, APRA and the Australia Council for the Arts.
First performance by Hoang Pham (piano), Sydney International Piano Competition, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 21 July 2008
Folly (2006)
13 minutes
for solo piano
Composed for Michael Kieran Harvey as part of a fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council.
First performance by Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Hobart, 11 October 2007
Broadway Boogie-Woogie (2005)
3 minutes
for solo piano
Composed for Marcel Worms as part of a fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council
First performance by Marcel Worms (piano), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 15 October 2005
Fear no more . . . (2003)
5 minutes
for solo piano
Commissioned by Ananda Sukarlan
First performance by Ananda Sukarlan (piano), University of Auckland, New Zealand, 25 July 2003
The Very End of Harvest (2000)
10 minutes
for viola and piano
This piece is under revision
Commissioned by Perth New Music Week
First performance by Patricia Pollett (viola) and Roger Smalley (piano), University of Western Australia, August 2000
The Waltz Book (1998-2002)
60 minutes
for solo piano
Commissioned by Ian Munro with financial assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian government's arts funding and advisory body.
First complete performance by Ian Munro (piano), Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Hobart, 22 March 2003
Eight Australian Birds Discover the Music of the Twentieth Century (1989)
5 mins
piano (Grades 2/3/4)
i) An emu emulates Alban Berg
ii) A brolga behaves like Bartók
iii) A lyre-bird in love with Ligeti
iv) A parrot preens to Arvo Pärt
v) A kookaburra considers Cage
vi) A galah gawps at Glass
vii) A scrub fowl succumbs to Sculthorpe
viii) A common mynah mocks Messiaen