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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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
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
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
Text: Christina Rossetti
First performance by Jane Edwards (soprano), Marshall McGuire (harp), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 18 March 2005
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
From Learning to Howl
Text:
poems by 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
Text: Cathryn Strickland
First performance by Merlyn Quaife (soprano) and Stephen Delaney (piano), Neuer Konzertsaal, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 12 January 2007
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
Text: Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker) and Capt James Cook
Commissioned by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with the support of the Music Board of the Australia Council.
First performance by Russell Harcourt (counter-tenor), Lorna McGhee (flute and boatswain's call), William Barton (didgeridoo), Camerata of St John's conducted by Federico Mondelci, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Riverway Arts Centre, Townsville, Queensland, 4 August 2009
Text: poems by Chrstopher Reid, Martin Turner, Anne Ridler, Craig Raine and Thomas Shapcott
Commissioned by Gerald English for his 70th birthday concert
First performance by Gerald English (tenor) and Marshall McGuire (harp), Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, 5 November 1995
Text:
poems by Onakatomi no Yoshinobu, Oshikochi no Mitsune, the Emperor Koko and Akahito (translated by Kenneth Rexroth)
First performance by Gerald English (tenor) and Helen O'Brien (piano), Piper's Brook Vineyard, Piper's Brook, Tasmania, February 1994