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Vocal

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.

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

Golden Slumbers (2008)

3 minutes
for voice and piano

Text: poem by Thomas Dekker

First performance by Iva Bittová and Lisa Moore, Canberra International Music Festival, Street Theatre, Canberra, 16 May 2008

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Domestic Advice (2007)

16 minutes
for soprano and piano

Text: from the Book of Proverbs, Kanteletar and the Girl's Own Annual (1919)

Commissioned by Jane Edwards with funds provided by a composer fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Jane Edwards (soprano) and David Miller (piano), Manly Council Chambers, Sydney, 14 September 2008

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Three Shakespeare Songs (2006-09)

9 mins
for soprano and piano

1. Orpheus with his Lute (Henry VIII)
2. Chimney-sweepers (Cymbeline)
3. Winter Song (Love's Labours Lost) 

Text: William Shakespeare

Nos 1 and 3 commissioned by the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. No 2 commissioned by the Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival (Arts in the Valley) with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

First performance by Margaret Schindler and Kevin Power Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Ballroom, Jupiter's Casino, Townsville, Queensland, 7 August 2009.

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Chimney-sweepers (2006)

4 mins
for soprano and piano

Also available as part of Three Shakespeare Songs and as a SATB choir version.

Text: from Act IV of Shakespeare's Cymbeline

Commissioned by the Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival (Arts in the Valley) with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Andrea Katz (piano), Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, 21 April 2007.

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Barleycorn (2006)

18 minutes
for folksinger, wind quartet and piano

oboe (= cor anglais), clarinet (= bass clarinet), bassoon, horn and piano

Commissioned by Southern Cross Soloists with funding from a composer fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Warren Fahey and Dave de Hugard (singers), the Southern Cross Soloists, Queensland Music Festival, Bangalow St Park, Brisbane, 15 July 2006

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Tales of the Supernatural (2002)

31 mins
folksongs for voice and string quartet

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

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Learning to Howl (2001)

36 mins
For soprano, soprano saxophone (=clarinet, bass clarinet), harp and percussion

Text:

Lorrie Moore, Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, The Kanteletar, Ian Munro, Ann Timoney Jenkin, Queen Elizabeth I, Emily Brontë, Wang Wei and Elizabeth Smart

Commissioned with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Belinda Montgomery (soprano), Margery Smith (soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet), Daryl Pratt (percussion) and Marshall McGuire (harp); Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, 9 March 2003

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The Birthday of My Life (from Learning to Howl) (2001)

3 minutes
for high voice and harp

Text: Christina Rossetti

First performance by Jane Edwards (soprano), Marshall McGuire (harp), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 18 March 2005

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A Walk to the Japanese Garden (2001)

4 minutes
for soprano and vibraphone

A song from Learning to Howl

Text: poem by Ian Munro

First performance by Justine Anderson (soprano) and Peter Neville (vibraphone), Toorak Uniting Church, Melbourne, 25 September 2005

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Three Songs for the Lady Pan (2001)

5 minutes
for soprano and soprano saxophone

From Learning to Howl

Text: Wang Wei (English translation by G.W. Robertson)

First performance by Belinda Montgomery (soprano) and Margery Smith (soprano saxophone), Government House, Sydney, 3 November 2004

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