Andrew Ford is the author of Try Whistling This, Illegal Harmonies and The Sound of Pictures. He is a composer, writer and broadcaster and presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National.

His awards include the Paul Lowin Prize for his song cycle Learning to Howl, a Green Room Award for his opera Rembrandt’s Wife, and the Geraldine Pascall Prize for critical writing. In 2009 he was resident composer at the Australian National Academy of Music.