Gondwana Choirs and Sydney Chamber Opera will present scenes from Andrew Ford and Sue Smith’s choral opera, Peter Pan, following two weeks of creative development at the 2020 National Choral School. The performance conducted by Jack Symonds and directed by Alexander Berlage features Jane Sheldon as both Mrs Darling and Captain Hook, with the roles […]
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The Song Remains the Same – a new book & playlist
A new book The Song Remains the Same – 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies, will be released on 2 December. The book can be preordered on the Black Inc. website, and the accompanying playlist of the songs discussed can be accessed via Spotify. Often today, the word ‘song’ is used to describe […]
The Sea and The Mirror – a premiere and an article
An article in the Limelight magazine by Angus McPherson about Andrew Ford’s new work The Sea and The Mirror: In Andrew Ford’s program note for The Sea and the Mirror, which violinist Tor Frømyhr and cellist David Pereira will perform for the first time in Canberra on Friday, he dedicates the piece to Kim Williams, partly […]
Scenes from Streeton for the Melbourne Recital Centre
On October 9, Arcadia Winds will give the first performance of Scenes from Streeton, a new work commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Melbourne Recital Centre. The five-movement wind quintet also features the voices of Bruce Pascoe, Gwenda and Ian Langford, Eda Ritchie and Vivienne Ritchie, who talk about Arthur Streeton’s paintings of […]
Rembrandt’s Wife – a new production by Opera Australia in 2020
Opera Australia has announced Sydney and Melbourne runs of Andrew Ford and Sue Smith’s opera, Rembrandt’s Wife, for its 2020 season. Commissioned by Victorian Opera and first performed in 2009 under Richard Gill, the new production will star Taryn Fiebig as both the eponymous wife, Saskia, and the painter’s last great muse – his Bathsheba […]
Two works by Ford shortlisted at 2019 Art Music Awards
Two of Andrew Ford’s works were finalists in the 2019 Art Music Awards, organised by the Australian Music Centre and APRA-AMCOS. In a bumper year for nominations, The Drowners was a finalist for vocal/choral work of the year (along with music by Rachel Bruerville, Alice Chance and Damien Ricketson, whose opera The Howling Girls took […]
All new website
The new look and functionality of Andrew’s website has been achieved in friendly collaboration with Matt Doyle’s Elated. We’re particularly excited about the robust database he’s set up for the list of compositions – to make the most of the new features available (including detailed instrumentations and links to streaming, track and album purchases), we’re […]
Nature – a new song cycle to premiere in Sweden & Australia
Andrew Ford’s new song cycle, Nature, will have its first performance in Söderhamn. Sweden on 5 September, swiftly followed by an Australian premiere in Sydney on 12 October and a further performance at Stockholm’s Riddarhuset (the House of Nobility) on 20 October. The work will also be featured at the is Arti Festival in Lithuania […]
Wynton Marsalis interview on The Music Show
‘Excellence is a kind of protest’, reflected Wynton Marsalis in this recent interview on ABC RN’s The Music Show. The long talk between Andrew Ford and Wynton Marsalis was first broadcast on The Music Show on 23 February and can also be watched on Youtube, courtesy of ABC.
The Music Show on Saturday 16 February: An LGBTQI Requiem
On Saturday 16 February, an interview on The Music Show with Holcombe Waller, whose Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite is about to be performed at Sydney’s Mardi Gras this month. It’s a “mash-up of Latin text, poetry, pop, classical and theatre” and written especially for the “peaceful repose of the souls of the dead” with […]