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Andrew Ford (born 1957) is an English-born Australian composer, writer, and radio presenter, known for The Music Show on ABC Radio National. Early life and education Andrew Ford was born in 1957 in Liverpool, UK. He attended St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, Kent, then studied at Lancaster University with Edward Cowie and John Buller. As a student, a meeting with Sir Michael Tippett had a profound influence on him, when he told him "to forget about musical systems and trust his instincts". Career Ford was a research fellow in music Bradford University from 1978 to 1982. After moving to Australia, he lectured at the School of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong, NSW, from 1983 to 1995, and during this time earned a PhD for his thesis on "musical word setting from Elvis Costello to Elliott Carter. Ford was composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (1992–94), held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts for 2005 to 2006. He was appointed composer-in-residence at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2009. Other activities He has written widely on music and published ten books. For the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he wrote, presented and co-produced the radio series Illegal Harmonies, Dots on the Landscape, Music and Fashion, Earth Dances and Three Front Doors a Paddock (with painter Ben Quilty) Since 1995 he has presented The Music Show on ABC Radio National. Recognition and awards 1982: Yorkshire Arts Composers Award, joint winner (with Mark-Anthony Turnage) for Portraits 1998: Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship, a two-year fellowship during which he began work on The Waltz Book 1998: Pascall Prize for critical writing 1998: Sydney Spring Festival award, for Tattoo 2002: Jean Bogan Prize, for The Waltz Book 2004: Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize, for Learning to Howl 2007: shortlisted, Prix Italia, for his radiophonic work Elegy in a Country Graveyard 2010: Green Room Award, for the music for the opera Rembrandt's Wife 2012: Albert H. Maggs Composition Award for his work Rauha 2013: shortlisted, Paul Lowin Prize, for Blitz and Willow Songs 2014: Poynter Fellow and visiting composer at Yale University 2015: visiting lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory 2016: shortlisted, Paul Lowin Prize, for Last Words 2016: Order of Australia Medal 2018: H. C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University 2020: Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, Facilitator's Prize (awarded 2021) APRA / Art Music Awards The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). They include the Art Music Awards (until 2009 Classical Music Awards) which are distributed by APRA and the Australian Music Centre (AMC). These awards include: Selected works Music theatre Poe, opera (1983, premiered 1985, Sydney Opera House) Whispers for tenor and chamber orchestra (1990) Casanova Confined for baritone and backing track (1995) Night and Dreams: The Death of Sigmund Freud for tenor and backing track (1999) Rembrandt's Wife (libretto by Sue Smith), opera (2007–2009) Peter Pan, children's opera (2017), for Gondwana Choirs Orchestral Concerto for Orchestra (1980) The Big Parade (1986) Manhattan Epiphanies for string orchestra (1999) The Furry Dance (1999) Scenes from Bruegel for chamber orchestra (2006) Headlong (2006), for 75th birthday of Sydney Symphony Orchestra Symphony (2008) Bright Shiners for string orchestra (2009) Blitz for orchestra, (optional) chorus and pre-recorded voices (2011) Big Bang for orchestra (2019) The Meaning of Trees for orchestra (2020), for Australian Youth Orchestra, premiered 2022 Concertos Piano Concerto: Imaginings (1991) The Great Memory for cello and orchestra (1994) The Unquiet Grave for viola and chamber orchestra (1997–1998) Raga for electric guitar and orchestra (2015–2016) Vocal and choral A Martian Sends a Postcard Home for tenor, horn and piano (1986) Wassails and Lullabies for SATB choir and percussion (1989), recorded by ABC Classics Harbour for tenor and string orchestra (1992) The Past for counter-tenor, flute and string orchestra (with ad lib didgeridoo) (1997), a setting of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's poem 'The Past' and excerpts from James Cook's ship's log Learning to Howl for soprano, clarinet/sax, harp and percussion (2001) Tales of the Supernatural for folk singer and string quartet (2002) An die Musik for SATB choir (2005) Elegy in a Country Graveyard for SATB choir, brass or concert band (flexible instrumentation) and pre-recorded voices and instruments (2007) Domestic Advice for soprano and piano (2007) A Singing Quilt for SATB choir, percussion ensemble and pre-recorded voices (2008) Willow Songs: six poems of Anne Stevenson for soprano, mezzo-soprano and mixed ensemble (2009) Waiting for the Barbarians for large chorus (2011), based on the poem by Constantine P. Cavafy Last Words, song cycle for piano trio and soprano (2013 premiered by Anna Goldsworthy, Seraphim Trio, Jane Sheldon) The Drowners for baritone and chamber orchestra (2015) Missa brevis for SATB choir and organ (2015) Comeclose and Sleepnow for singer and jazz ensemble (2016), to words by Adrian Henri, Brian Patten and Roger McGough Nature for mezzo-soprano and ensemble (2019), to words by Jen Hadfield, R.S. Thomas, Robert Adamson, Tomas Tranströmer, Maria Takolander, Edward Thomas and W.B. Yeats The Blessing for mezzo-soprano and oboe (2021), libretto by J.M. Coetzee based on a scene from his novel Elizabeth Costello Red Dirt Hymns for voices and instruments (2020–24), lyrics by Jordie Albiston, David McCooey, John Kinsella, Ellen van Neerven, Judith Bishop, Judith Beveridge, Sarah Holland-Batt, Stephen Edgar, Kate Fagan, Merlinda Bobis, Mark Wakely, Felicity Plunkett, Philip Harvey, Erik Jensen, Jill Jones, Maria Takolander, Melanie Horsnell, Martha Marlow, Alison Flett and Lisa Brockwell Ensemble Chamber Concerto No 3: In Constant Flight for solo violin and ensemble (1988) Ringing the Changes for piccolo, bass clarinet and piano (1990) Pastoral for string octet (1991) Tattoo for 12 timpani (6 players) and 4 pianos (1998) Icarus Drowning (1998) Chamber Concerto No. 4 (2002) Sad Jigs for string quintet (2005) A Reel, a Fling and a Ghostly Galliard (String Quartet No 2) (2006) Oma kodu for clarinet and string quartet (2006) Nine Fantasies about Brahms for piano trio (2009) On Winter's Traces for piccolo, bass clarinet, piano and string quartet (2009) for the 30th anniversary of the Australia Ensemble The Rising (2010) for the Black Dyke Band The Scattering of Light for piano quartet (2010) commissioned to mark the centenary of the University of Queensland String Quartet No 3 (2012) for the Brodsky Quartet String Quartet No 4 (2012) for the NOISE String Quartet String Quartet No 5 (2013) for the Australian String Quartet Uproar for 11 trombones and four ba.... 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