Andrew Ford (born 1957 in Liverpool) is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.
He 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—2006. He was appointed Composer-in-residence at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2009.
Beyond composing, Ford has been an academic in the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong (1983—95). He has written widely on music and published five books. He wrote, presented and co-produced the radio series Illegal Harmonies, Dots on the Landscape and Music and Fashion. Since 1995, he has presented The Music Show on ABC Radio National.
He studied at the Lancaster University with Edward Cowie and John Buller.
The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). They include the Classical Music Awards which are distributed by APRA and the Australian Music Centre (AMC).
|-| 2004 || Learning to Howl — Ford || Best Composition by an Australian Composer |||-| 2005 || Tales of the Supernatural — Ford — Australian String Quartet, Jane Edwards || Vocal or Choral Work of the Year |||-| 2008 || Ford || Outstanding Contribution by an Individual |||-| 2009 || Learning to Howl — Ford — Arcko Symphonic Project || Best Performance of an Australian Composition ||
Composer to Composer: Conversations about Contemporary Music (paperback 1993, ISBN 1-86373-443-0, hardback 1993, ISBN 0-7043-7061-1, 2nd edition paperback 1997, ISBN 0-86806-631-1)
Illegal Harmonies: Music in the 20th Century (hardback 1997, ISBN 0-86806-635-4, 2nd edition paperback 2002, ISBN 0-7333-1130-X)
Undue Noise: Words about Music (paperback 2002, ISBN 0-7333-1057-5)
Speaking in Tongues: The Songs of Van Morrison by Martin Buzacott and Andrew Ford (paperback 2005, ISBN 0-7333-1297-7)
In Defence of Classical Music (hardback 2005, ISBN 0-7333-1594-1, reprint, ISBN 0-7333-1594-7)