Composer, Writer & Broadcaster
Andrew Ford’s vocal works are among his best known, and several of them have won awards, notably Learning to Howl, which won the prestigious Paul Lowin Prize in 2004.
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Text: Andrew Ford
Commissioned by Ian Munro, Roy Howat, Joel Sachs and Aura Go, with the support of a project grant from the Music Funds of the Australia Council for the Arts
First performance by Ian Munro (piano), Andrew Ford (speaker), Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, 6 May 2017
Text: Arthur Taylor, from his Gallipoli diary
First performance by David Greco (baritone), David Shaw (piccolo), Leanne Sullivan (trumpet), James Huntingford (piano), conducted by Roland Peelman, Canberra International Music Festival, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 May 2015
Text:
poem by Judith Wright
Commissioned by Katie Noonan with financial assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts
First performance by Katie Noonan and the Brodsky Quartet, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, 28 April 2016
Text:
poem by Katherine Philips
First performance by Halcyon (Alison Morgan, Jenny Duck Chong, Diana Springford, Joshua Hill), Sculpture Garden, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 23 October 2013
Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henry Ward Beecher, Alban Berg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Falcon Scott, Adelaide Crapsey, Chidiock Tichborne, Sappho, Dorothy Porter, Maurice Chevalier, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Sullivan Balou, Florenz Ziegfeld, Tim Winton (from Cloudstreet), Virginia Woolf and Noël Coward.
Commissioned by Jane Sheldon with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts
First performance by Jane Sheldon (soprano), Helen Ayres (violin), Zoe Knighton (cello) and Anna Goldsworthy (piano), Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Lecture Hall, Port Fairy, Victoria, 12 October 2013
1. The Owl and the Pussy-cat 2. The Quangle Wangle's Hat 3. The Jumblies
Text: Edward Lear
First performance by Michael Lampard (baritone), Shirley Trembath (piano), St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, 30 October 2013
1. Bonny at Morn
2. Maa Bonny Lad
3. Dance to Thi Daddy
Commissioned by Jane Sheldon
First complete performance by Fiona Campbell (mezzo-soprano), Australia Ensemble, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of NSW, Sydney, 8 June 2019
Text: poem by Jane Taylor
First performance by Tobias Cole (countertenor) and Meriel Owen (harp), Canberra International Music Festival, Fitters' Workshop, Canberra, 30 April 2017
Published by Wise Music G. Schirmer Australia
The first song in this work is A Dream of Drowning.
Text: Tim Winton, George Barker, Georgiana Molloy, Bruce Dawe, Stevie Smith and William Shakespeare
Commissioned by Ruthless Jabiru and the Camerata of St John's with a project grant from the Australia Council for the Arts
First performance by Morgan Pearse (baritone), Ruthless Jabiru conducted by Kelly Lovelady, Chapel of King's College, London, 10 March 2018.
Text:
poems by Anne Stevenson
Commissioned by Halcyon with the generous financial support of Barbara Blackman
First performance by Halcyon (Alison Morgan, Jenny Duck-Chong , Sally Walker, Jason Noble, John Douglas, Sally Whitwell), Trackdown Scoring Stage, Fox Studios, Sydney, 26 September 2009